Dear Single Mama, I see you doing everything – literally everything – with all your heart and all your will… Photo by Erica of EBC Photos Nursing all night or warming up bottles. Doing each diaper change, outfit swap, kitchen cleaning, toilet scrubbing, meal prepping and cooking, lunch box packing, dog walking and pooper-scooping (little human(s) and fury …
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≫ s h e l l e y ≪ not short for michelle. A clean-ish eating mama to a cub living where the air is salty+life is sweet. wanderlusting through mom life and writing about it...
’tis the season for pumpkin spice to move over for Peppermint flavored erryytthhiinnggg. Tanner and I had a rough week, so we heard homemade donuts make things better, right? The work week hustle is real; school drop-offs and pick-ups, packing lunches and making breakfast and dinner, bedtimes and bathtime and Christmas concerts and school parties…phew. …
When it comes to the holiday season, making themed gift guides is one of my favorite things. I find it oddly therapeutic to sit at my computer all night working on rounding up some of my favorite things, plus handpicking items I think other mamas and women would enjoy. Here is my 2017 Modern …
photo, Sarah Hopper To my sweet (and at times, salty) 4-year-old bundle of joy (and energy!), It’s your birthday and I literally cannot believe you are F O U R! When talking about babies, everyone always says “it seems like just yesterday you were born!” And it actually feels like a lifetime, to me. But, …
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins (Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and Vegan Optional) Makes approximately 20 muffins Ingredients: 2 cups gluten free baking flour (if you’re not gluten free, you can always use whole wheat flour in any of my recipes) 1/4 cup pure maple syrup 1 1/2 cups coconut sugar (if you’re allergic to coconut, you …
I love Sundays because they mean the local Leucadia Farmer’s Market is happening, and I can stock my fridge with farm-to-table items galore. I love farmer’s markets because I enjoy shopping small + local, organic, and supporting local farmers and family-run businesses. Plus, the stands are always reasonably priced, and can save you a ton on groceries {especially …
Tums & Guns and LYB Week THREE!
WOAH! This week is week 3?! Seriously?! That means we’re already almost half way through the #tiuTUMSandGUNS challenge AND TIU’s Love your Body series! Time to get serious and buckle down to fully commit to the rest of the month, the challenge, and set a positive example for how we’d like the rest of our …
Glitter, Pumpkins, & Painting…Oh Yes!
“Wait, so none of you actually even know each other in ‘real life’”?! said my husband as I told him 15-20 of my TIU sisters would be coming over to our house yesterday afternoon… …and that is exactly what I love about the TIU community so much. Besides a sorority, family reunion, or maybe even a …
salty sweet seasons 
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