I grew up in a very health-conscious home: my mom carefully planned our meals to include lots of fruits and vegetables, we ate a lot of whole-grain stuff before it became super popular, and our meals followed the USDA’s “My Plate” recommendations long before the official nutritional guidelines were released. So, you’d better believe that …
Health(ier) Habits, Vol. IV
Welcome to Health(ier) Habits, a series I started to help keep me on track with my goals to stay healthy, even when (ESPECIALLY when) I don’t always see the progress or results that I would like to as quickly as I would like to! Every two weeks, I list out my progress on my recent …
To Love and to Learn: The Blog Manifesto
It’s now been almost a month since I totally relaunched this blog space, giving it an all-new name and look. As I mentioned in my blog relaunch post, I’ve been wanting to upgrade my blog for years, and now that it’s finally happened, I find that I’m more motivated to blog than ever before. However, …
Potty Training Wins, Birthdays All Around, and Raven’s First Terrifying Amusement Park Ride (September Summed Up in a Sentence a Day)
(New family pic taken by Britta Brown Photography) Here I am, continuing into month two of trying out this new way of posting about our general life happenings (inspired by this blog) and dumping all the pictures we take on a daily basis (okay, not all, but more than you’d get otherwise). September ended up …