A Slow Living Morning Routine That Is Actually Real (With a Toddler)
What a slow living morning routine really looks like with a toddler in the house. No perfect quiet, just a gentler pace, slow coffee, and rest built into the day.
View PostEasy From-Scratch Dinners for Families: Our Real Weeknight Rotation
The short, honest rotation of easy from-scratch dinners we actually eat every week, plus what I cook on low-energy days in our Long Grove farmhouse.
View PostGarden Tomato Sauce Recipe (No Canning Required)
By the end of July our garden hands us more tomatoes than we know what to do with. Here's the simple, no-canning garden tomato sauce I make on repeat all summer, roasted, blended, and stashed in the freezer for winter.
View PostFarmhouse Kitchen Organization: What Actually Works in Ours
Our kitchen works harder than any other room in this farmhouse. This is my honest take on farmhouse kitchen organization: the systems that survived a toddler, a dog, and a year of from-scratch cooking.
View PostSimple Sourdough Bread Recipe for Beginners
The simple sourdough bread recipe I wish I'd had when I started. Four ingredients, a forgiving rhythm, and a loaf that fits a real life with a baby.
View PostNatural Cleaning Products That Actually Work in My Farmhouse
I didn’t start using natural cleaning products because it was trendy. I started because I have an autoimmune disease, and because there was a baby about to be crawling on my floors, and because one…
View PostWhy Perfect Slow Living is a Beautiful Lie
I’ve been thinking about content a lot lately — and about what realistic slow living actually looks like when you strip away the aesthetics. What to make, what to share, what version of my life feels worth…
View PostHomemade Fruit Snacks
3 Ingredients. Toddler Approved. Mom Approved. If your toddler has ever eaten forty fruit snacks in one sitting, this recipe is for you. Or rather, this recipe for homemade fruit snacks is the reason mine…
View PostWhy I Abandoned City Life and Embraced Beautiful, Slow Living
Life Before Slow Living I didn’t set out to embrace slow living. Honestly, I didn’t even know what that phrase meant until I was already doing it. But looking back, I can see exactly when…
View PostMy Birth Story.
It took us a year of trying to get pregnant and we went to a fertility doctor where we had to take some medication for us to be successful. When we finally found out we…
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