INTENTIONAL LIVING mom of three WHY AM I UNHAPPY? I was standing in my basement looking at a small metal sign that read ‘hot chocolate 50 cents’. I bought it to fill a spot in my first ‘adult home’ out of college. I thought it said ‘this woman likes old-timey things because she put this […]
Alternate Title: Go On Road Trips, They Said! It’s Fun, They Said! I thought I should check in with the ‘lists‘ we made of how we wanted to parent our kids. We set some clear ideas on things we wanted to do from the mundane to the epic. We wrote out qualities we wanted our kids […]
Have you ever met a family and looked at their lifestyle, or traditions, or way of interacting and thought, ‘yeah, they’ve got that something‘. Maybe they are travelling around the world, or homesteading on an acreage, or left the rat race and moved to an island for the slow life. These are the kind of […]
Last spring I was rocking Dawson to sleep. I could hear Levi and Nena playing dress-up in the living room. Nena was torn between princess and horse. Levi was trying to wriggle into the cowboy costume. I could hear him say, “No, don’t be a princess, I want you to be a horse.” If you […]
I know she loved tea…..And chain smoking in her house smock….. And barking at her husband. I imagine her delicately-flowered teapot with a gradation of brown rings inside, marking days upon weeks upon years of drinking orange pekoe. These stains, a reminder that you don’t do something every single day unless it means something. I […]
Now that I am just past my mid-30s, I feel like I can say with certainty that I didn’t know a thing in my 20s (other than how to wear socks and sandals and identify the native plants of Southern BC. What a catch!). The 30s have given me a crash course in life, most […]
It started with a text conversation I had with a mombestie. She sent me pics of something they were doing that day and I told her that I admired the culture she was building in her family. What I mean by this is the special lifestyle, traditions, stories, practices, beliefs that are unique to this […]
LIFE ON PURPOSE! It is a way of approaching your day with intention. For our family, it means sitting down at the beginning of each year to reflect and plan out the year ahead. We started about three years ago and it has helped us to start forming the life we want to live. Writing […]
If you are already plotting how to escape the frigid drudgery of Winter, perhaps you need to make a list of all the ways to add some HYGGE into these cold weather months! To recap: Hygge is the Danish word for that feeling you get when you are cozy, safe, seen, connected, relaxed, grateful. It […]
Little nuggets I’ve been sharing about living life. View this post on Instagram After my second baby I struggled with feeling unhappy around every corner. My baby was tough, my marriage was rocky, my body was weird, I was an anxious wreck. IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE THIS WAY! If I wasn’t happy, […]