Around Christmas I asked my husband to pop on over to my blog and spotlight some of his favorite things I’ve ever gifted him. With Father’s Day coming up we’re doing it again, but…

After the snow thawed this spring, I took a look at our yard and winced. I am lucky enough to live on a beautifully landscaped street, but ours needed serious help. With the rain…

Tyler and I don’t get out enough for date nights. I think sometimes we are both so tired from the chaos of the kids, work, and general life responsibilities that we fall into staying…

Our family recently had the opportunity to preview the new Explore & More Museum at Buffalo’s Canalside where we dug deeper into the history of Buffalo and used our creative minds to build and…

I hope every enjoyed their long weekend! We’ve been working like crazy around the house redoing a few rooms and since the thrift shops were all 1/2 off for the holiday, I spent quite…

A couple of years ago I started seeing beauty vloggers post videos of themselves brushing their teeth with charcoal. When they rinsed their mouths after brushing, they claimed that their teeth were starting to…

Another Mother’s Day for the books, but my first as a mother of two! I started out the holiday with a Muffins with Mom breakfast at Fox’s school. I’m so grateful for the teachers…

When I first moved in with my husband, we had almost nothing to our names. He was a touring musician, constantly on the road and not in need of a home, and I had…

There’s nothing like the smell of a clean house. Few things bring on the nostalgia as much as a fresh lemon scent. It’s ingrained in my brain from Sunday house cleanings as a kid.…

Since the very first time we put Fox in the bathtub, he screamed at the top of his lungs the second water touched his face and hair. I could tell that he was genuinely…

For four years I walked hand-in-hand with jealousy. It’s something I consciously struggled with, constantly talking myself off the ledge after letting myself know I wasn’t being rational. The notion still lived in my…

As I mentioned before in my list of baby girl names we would have picked, Charlie was always going to be a Charlie. Initially we had decided it would be his middle name after…

When I was a kid, my family made a big deal of Easter egg hunts. We didn’t head out to public places for them, they were always done in the house with the help…

On our last big family trip we visited Iceland and noticed something about each of the residences we stayed at: they had tiny little trash cans for the entire household. I’m embarrassed to say…

Charlie was going to be called “Charlie” regardless of gender. He is named after my grandfather, Charles. Originally, we decided it would be the first name Charlie for a girl and a middle name…