My kids are into the ceremony of things. They like traditions. We watch Christmas Vacation as we decorate the tree and A Christmas Story after we open presents on Christmas Day. On the last day of school, we go to…
Penn and I get asked all the time, “How do you make so many videos all by yourselves?” The short answer is, we don’t. It’s not that we aren’t the ones writing, shooting, and editing the content we create. We…
The end of the school year is finally here, and I feel like we are crossing the finish line being held together with tape and glue. Last August, I wrote a blog post about what I hoped my kids would…
We share a lot of our lives online. It’s the shiny, happy, three minutes at a time sort of glimpses of our lives. It’s impossible to know the real us if you are only seeing us singing and dancing in…
On lazy weekend afternoons, I reminisce about a time before kids when Penn and I would hit up our favorite local spot for bar snacks. Sometimes it was to watch a big game or to meet up with friends, and…
Let’s talk about blenders, shall we? Blenders have come a long way – you can practically send yourself to the moon with a Vitamix these days. But it’s not just the new ones I love. My mother in law had…
Let’s face it, Halloween is going to be different this year. After our kids have endured so much, it breaks my heart to think Halloween is going to be taken from them too. While we don’t know exactly what it…
This weekend our kids found out they would not be returning to their class this school year. Lola was especially crushed. I told her it was ok to be upset. It was ok to cry and be angry. We gave…
I’ve seen too many people posting about the weight they are gaining in quarantine. They are calling it their “Covid-15” and sliding into a shame spiral because of a new number on a scale. Friend, now is not the time…
We are board game people. As a family, we have always loved the chance to disconnect from the digital world and connect (read: yell and scream at each other) over a good game. A few years ago we even made…