Family, Fun, Food, and Home Design
I lost my Dad almost 6 years ago. The pain is always there. Most of the time it's a dull ache, a whole in your life that you can't fix. Sometimes that pain will turn sharp and smack you in the face. You expect it on milestone days, weddings, holidays, and birthdays. It can happen [...]
Whole30 week 1 is done and I'm pretty proud of ourselves. It was hard but it's worth it so far. If you missed it, you can read why we decided to do the Whole30 Challenge here. This post contains some affiliate links – meaning if you click through the links and buy anything, the retailer [...]
Living in coastal San Diego, we spend a fair share of time down at the beach. Through the years, I've learned what summer essentials are necessary for our beach life. Of course you need a good bag, lots of towels and snacks....lots and lots of snacks. But this is my list of summer essentials beyond [...]
This 4th of July Dessert was a staple in our house growing up. It's quick and easy and somewhat on the healthy side - unlike our family favorite Pistachio Delight. The Jello, fruit and Angel Food Cake makes this a light, refreshing summer dessert. Patriotic, festive and perfect for any holiday BBQ. This post contains [...]
At the beginning of the year, one of the goals that I set for myself was to break my sugar addiction. To be honest, I haven't done a very good job of it. In fact, I think it's probably the worst that it's ever been. So while sitting at our favorite pizza place waiting for [...]
While waiting for the preschool doors to open at pickup the other day, one of the Mom's said: "I can't believe summer is only 9 weeks long." ONLY? NINE WEEKS. Ya'll, I'm starting to panic. That seems like an eternity to me. To quell my anxiety, I started to make a list and break it [...]
Planning and planting our vegetable garden is one of my favorite springtime activities. The benefit of living in Southern California is that I can garden all year long but there is something fun about warm weather vegetable gardens. Planning, planting, watching the progress, and eventually enjoying the output. It's so satisfying. Our property has a [...]
Our laundry room makeover is complete and the project that I'm most proud of has to be the DIY laundry shelf over the washer and dryer. When I was pulling together the design board for this room, I knew that I wanted something over the washer and dryer. We had already used that space as [...]
Maybe it was the guilt from being gone 3 days last week at a conference. Maybe it was Little Nugget taking a long nap that cancelled our afternoon park plans the day before. Maybe it was cause it was Tuesday, the only day of the week that we don't have anything going on. Whatever the [...]
I pulled into the school parking lot those first few weeks of the new school year and kept noticing a new car. What stood out to me was an Arizona State University decal on it, my alma matter, but I also noticed it was a military family from Virginia. I finally met the mom with [...]