Our kids love holidays and all of the goodies that come along with them, and I LOVE coming up with creative gift baskets for everyone (gifts are my love language) so it's no surprise that Easter baskets are a big deal at our house. But between four kiddos, and Fred and I both being neat…
Continue reading ➞ 20 Easter Basket Ideas (that aren’t junk)
Hello Friends! As I am writing this, the sun is setting and I am sinking into my cozy arm chair that I typically spend hours in each day. Early in the morning, I crawl out of bed and stumble out to this chair. I drink my coffee, I read, and I journal. Later in the…
Happy Friday Friends! Here we are at the end of another week. Since Mothers day is this weekend, I thought I would share things I'm loving, motherhood edition. Consider these my #momlife essentials. Wrangling four tiny people is no easy feat, buuuut there's a few things I've learned along the way to lighten the load.…
Good afternoon friends! As I write this, I'm curled up in my favorite writing chair, drinking my afternoon coffee while relishing in the miraculous fact that somehow every single member of my household is asleep right now. It's that glorious afternoon quiet time. The sunlight is flooding in my big, open window seat and the…
I woke up this morning, filled with all sorts of anxiety, one of them being "What on earth am I gonna blog about today?" I've committed to publishing two blog posts a week, The Weekly Tea goes out on Friday and then a special post on Tuesdays. Sometimes I plan the topics months in advance,…
It's Friday which means another weekly tea post (insert happy music and some super cheesy dance moves). This week flew by! All the days in quarantine seem to run together. Anyone else just livin' where you don't even know what day it is most of the time? This week has been slow, filled with snuggles,…
Happy Friday beautiful people. I hope this week has been good to you and that you are being gentle with yourself during these crazy times. I've been a little off this week. I have a wicked knee injury that doesn't seem to be healing despite my taking the week off from jogging and trying to…
Ahh... it's a good, Good Friday. By 9 am, I had already gotten my 10,000 steps in, hiked to the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise and hiked back down, showered, eaten breakfast, prayed and meditated. Lest you go thinking I have my life together, let me tell you this is rare. Like…
A sweet friend of mine and I often open up our conversations with "So, what's the tea?" When we say this to one another, it's not a doorway into gossip. Instead, it's an invitation to share how you're really doing. It's our way of saying "Don't give me the surface level bullsh*t. Tell me how…
Happy New Year friends! This is my first blog post of 2020. I honestly have wrestled a lot with if I should keep blogging or not, sometimes buying into the lie that "no one reads blogs anymore" or that "no one cares what I have to say." But you know what? I have been blogging…
Continue reading ➞ From My Reading Chair to Yours, Happy New Year!
