We have a dog. I’ll admit it; I didn’t want her. I used to be an animal person. As a child, my summers were spent riding a horse and pulling kittens around in a wagon. I grew up on a dairy farm for goodness sake. It was great, and I loved animals. Then, my children […]

Do you remember when you were a kid and you did something bad? Really bad? So bad you knew your parents were going to flip?   When I was 12-years-old, I was parking my dad’s pickup truck (before you’re shocked, I lived in farm country where 12-year-olds drove tractors and silage trucks) when I got […]

It’s time for a summer reality check at my house. I was so excited for summer. I even had a plan. True, it was a plan to fight summer learning loss but we’re only halfway through the summer and that plan is barely being implemented. It’s time for a new summer goal. I think that […]

It took me far longer to start a bullet journal than it should have, simply because I didn’t know where to begin. I scoured Pinterest and looked for a post that would lay it all out for me. While there were some that were helpful, none left me with the confidence to jump right in. If […]

I think I’m in love with a little black book with graph paper and an elastic pen holder on the side. It is the closest thing to imperfect perfection I have ever experienced. It’s beautiful and it is – a bullet journal. I’d been reading about bullet journals for quite a while. I have even […]

Being a mom changes you. In some ways, it’s absolutely beautiful. You love more, play more, and laugh harder. In other ways, being a mom breaks down your pride, modesty, self-confidence, and intellect into its most basic elements. You learn to function with no sleep, negotiate with pint-sized hostage takers (their hostage, by the way, […]

I recently wrote a post about one of the worst road trips we have ever taken. At one point on the trip, my husband and I were debating whether or not to buy a breast pump because our baby decided to stop nursing cold turkey while we were away from home for the weekend. Ultimately, […]