I can be a bit of a health nut when it comes to food. I don’t love taking my kids on adventures with a backpack full of ultra-processed food. Sometimes, as a treat? Sure. (We bought donuts at the farmer’s market just last weekend :P) Every day? Not a habit I want to get into. Plus, have you seen the price tags on processed snacks lately? Yikes.
I’ve always found summer camps incredibly difficult to pack for, because there are SO many different allergy restrictions to be aware of. Last year, my oldest was in one camp where snacks had to be peanut-free, tree nut-free and egg-free. Then tack on our own family goals of no seed oils, minimal refined sugar/flour, and adding a healthy protein or fat to each snack. What’s a kid to eat?!… Read More »
It’s finally spring and we are SO ready for all the gardening, warm weather sports, playdates, cookouts and more! I love that I can now open the window to air out the house every afternoon. And this weekend we’re headed to the farmer’s market for the first time since August!
I haven’t written much about parenting itself on the blog. After all, I don’t have any kind of background in early childhood education and seeing as my oldest isn’t quite four. What kind of authority am I, anyways?
A few years ago, I watched “The True Cost,” a documentary about the fashion industry, and my view of clothing and shopping was forever changed. Seriously–don’t watch it if you don’t want to look at your closet in horror afterwards, thinking about how all those t-shirts and dresses came to be. (My popular post 
Every 90s kid had a boombox in their bedroom, right? My metallic blue boombox lived on the lower shelf of my nightstand. It was huge, ugly, and had awful audio quality. But it got the job done–playing my CDs and cassettes of music and stories–and there weren’t really alternatives at the time.