I’ve admired these cute little sheds at Lowe’s and Home Depot a hundred times. I bet you have too 😉 Then we bought our house last fall, and it came with an old shed in the backyard. With a little TLC, it’s now the cutest little backyard playhouse! The walls weren’t in bad shape, but…
Favorite Shepherd’s Pie with Mashed Cauliflower
This year is full of happy numbers. Zoe, my oldest, is turning 16, I am turning 40, and my blog is 10 years old. Now, more than ever, I want my life as simple as possible. When the girls were younger life was slow. Days would go by that we wouldn’t even leave the…
The Best Chocolate Mousse Pie with Primal Kitchen!
Do you know what?? My blog is 10 years old this year! As they say, “I blinked,” and my blog was all grown up. And yet I can’t seem to find a Chocolate Mousse Pie in any of my cookbooks, or here on the blog, which is crazy in my world! Ten years and NO…
Kitchen Renovation Before & After Photos
I’m a little embarrassed at how long it’s taken us to do this kitchen renovation. And to be perfectly honest, it’s not even entirely finished. I still have to paint the back of the cabinets, and polish the pine boards (the open shelving), and I know I’m forgetting some other unfinished bits. But what can…
Healthy Green Shamrock Shake for St. Patrick’s Day!
I am swoooooning over this brand new copper Vitamix in my newly renovated kitchen!! Gorgeous! It also fits nicely under my upper cabinets that we chalk painted white on the other side of the kitchen. The first thing I did when I got this pretty and very powerful Vitamix was make some healthy dairy-free Shamrock…
CBD oil surprise
It’s been almost a year since my kids and I started using CBD oil (hemp oil which does not contain THC). Read my first post on CBD oil HERE. I started taking the oil for my severe panic attacks, but as you can see from these photos, it’s done so much more than just…
Home Improvements, Part 2, Kitchen & Family Room
We’ve made some changes in these rooms since I first showed them to you, and it’s feeling more like us now. 💛 I’m including most of those first photos here for comparison. Remember the 1980’s carpet blinds (above)? I took them down, which was a feat, because you guys, this sliding door is 10 feet long!…
How Ashley Changed My Life
(Most January’s I try to share an update on Ashley. This year I thought I would share how Ashley changed my life, and how she can inspire others to do the same. Here we go…) I recently made the statement that gratitude is not about being happy when things are good, it’s about being happy…
how to clean a stained mug
Where my tea and coffee drinkers at?! Raise your hand! 🙋 I drink both. I love mint tea, rooibos, and chai, and I love my organic decaf coffee. Of course my coffee has to be decaffeinated without chemicals. If it doesn’t say “organic water processed decaf”, then it’s decaffeinated with chemicals. One of my favorite brands…
Half Bathroom Renovation
You guuuuys! I’m so excited about our downstairs half bathroom renovation that I can’t sleep! haha! I go downstairs after the kids are asleep and just stare at it. Ever do that after you redo a room? 😀 Here’s the story. Immediately after we moved into our fixer upper the toilets began having major problems….