I gazed at the calendar the other day and realized it was time to start my summer homeschool plans! Somehow we made it to the end of a crazy academic year. Homeschooling is something new for me. I started in September of 2020 after my son’s…
If you asked me when I first started blogging where I’d be in the year 2021, I would never have predicted what we’re experiencing right now. Finding routine and structure has truly been saving my sanity throughout dealing with the state of the world. The Tiger…
Somehow we are almost halfway through December! How the heck did that happen? I know that this year celebrations are looking a lot different for many of us. We always kept Christmas Eve and Christmas Day super small and intimate so I’m thankful that we will…
I’m so excited to share that our official Homeschool 2020 year has kicked off. What? Homeschool? Aren’t you a high school teacher? All true! Leo attended a small Montessori style preschool housed in my high school for a year. He went for two days a week…
This past winter I was introduced to MaryRuth Organics Liquid Morning Multivitamin and couldn’t be happier. The timing was perfect. Leo really needed a multivitamin that was going to be tasty and easy to take each day. For a while, we had three different multivitamins going…
If this year has provided us with nothing else, it has given us a chance to deeply look at our lives, goals, and decisions more closely. We have had more TIME than ever before to begin reflecting on designing our days with intention and healing our…
Lately I’ve had some messages and received notes asking about my journey of clean living. It’s truly still a journey because I learn something new all the time about products and ingredients. I’m still constantly researching clean living recipes, tweaking my own home procedures, and of…
The other morning I was cleaning up my kitchen and was struck with a thought. How can I repurpose my coffee grounds? I usually use an Exfoliating Coffee Scrub from LUSH but with the shipping delays and general attempt to have less people on my porch…
Believe it or not, it’s been 40 days since life as we know it (at least in my home) has completely changed. I left work on March 13, 2020–didn’t get to say goodbye to my students, and have been thrown into a realm of distance learning,…
We’re going on week three of our new normal here at home, which means we’ve been finding lots of ways to try and stay busy. In my last post, I talked about the activities that we’ve been doing to keep busy. All of them are hands…