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I’m Meghan. I live in Long Grove, Illinois, in a green farmhouse I call my forever home, with my partner Danny, our son Lochlan, a scruffy terrier named Dewey, and a tortoiseshell cat named Delilah.
This blog is where I write about our life. Slow living, homemaking, cooking from scratch, the garden, motherhood, and the places we travel as a family. My tagline is “a slow life, from scratch,” and I mean it literally. The bread, the tomatoes, the home we’re building. From scratch, all of it.
How I got here
We used to live in Chicago, right in the city. Workout classes, pottery on Tuesdays, brunch with friends, always somewhere to be. It was a full life and I loved a lot of it.
And then everything changed. We lost our first son, Leland, in March 2024. Grief has a way of stripping out everything that doesn’t matter. When we came up for air, we wanted quiet. We wanted slow. So we found the farmhouse and started over. Our son Lochlan was born in February 2025, and he is now the loudest thing in a very quiet house.
I didn’t set out to embrace slow living. I didn’t even know what that phrase meant until I was already doing it. I also have lupus, which means rest isn’t optional for me. Slowing down started as something I had to do. It became something I’d choose every time.
What you’ll find here
Recipes we actually cook, what the garden is doing this season, honest writing about motherhood, and the slow, unglamorous work of making a home. And travel. We take our kids with us when we go, and I write detailed destination guides for families who want to do the same, from Portugal to the Amalfi Coast to weekend trips a couple hours from home.
The practical bits
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I’m glad you’re here. Pull up a chair. There’s no rush.
Meghan
