Go-To Style Tips When In a Hurry Ok, I admit it, I got into some bad habits in 2020. While it was liberating to finally break free from the rigidity of a 9-5 schedule and a gift at first to have clients wanting to connect more virtually, the absence of schedule, honestly, became a problem. Does this sound familiar? Wake up, brew some coffee, throw on a sweatshirt to take the kids to school. Wear...
Des Moines Meal Services Take the pain and work out of preparing meals for your family each week with these amazing Des Moines meal services! Our lives are filled with school, work, extracurricular activities and many of us end up with take-out most nights. Each week I swear to make a meal plan, grocery, and meal prep for the upcoming week, and most weeks that does not happen. I love all the amazing meal services...
Minimalism in Real Life Overstuffed bookshelves, full toy boxes, packed closets, and no room to move around is what normal life looks like with five people living in a 1,400 square-foot-house, right? Yes. But does it have to? No. Enter minimalism. The get rid of everything in the house that isn’t absolutely necessary kind of minimalism. It’s a job that sounds overwhelming, but it’s doable, our family can attest to it. So how did it...
Kid Date Jar Pre-pandemic my husband and I would regularly take our children out for solo kid dates. It would look different for each one, but it would allow us to have some separate time with each child. It was one of my favorite times because one was not interrupting the other and we could give each of them undivided attention. I loved how much they would open up about friends or different topics. Then...
The Great Smoky Mountains | An Epic Road Trip This past fall our family took an epic road trip from Des Moines, Iowa to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. After a year where the majority of our traveling plans were halted due to the pandemic, we decided to think outside of the box and invest in Poppy the Popup Camper. Poppy was probably one of the biggest highlights that came out of 2020! We...