Do you love those Pinterest photos of drawers that are beautifully organized grab and go granola bars and snacks? There is so much satisfaction in unloading a box of 24 bars into those bins that are ready for the taking. Yes! Me too! Or I used to… because then it hit me… that’s a lot […]

Feels like your ticket to freedom, right? I know I used to think so. I thought, well if I buy these very expensive bags at least they’ll break down in the landfill and I’m making the best choice. But here’s the thing… Do you even know where your trash goes? It could be a landfill. […]

I love tea, particularly English Breakfast. It’s part of fabric of my day. My morning ritual. My afternoon pick me up. It solves problems. It’s hard to explain, but if your mother is British then you know. Here’s the trouble with tea. It may be heavily sprayed with pesticides and the bags often have plastic […]

Because I might lose it. I love Halloween (particularly the Snickers), but have to admit… every year I’m a little less and less enchanted. When we first had kids we had amazing family halloween costumes and because they could barely talk, it was more about celebrating my creativity than it was about their fantasy super […]

First let me say that I can’t take much credit for our household laundry. My husband has been doing our laundry for the last 10 years, and I like to remind him that he saves my sanity every day and I’m forever grateful for his modern approach to husbanding. I just handle operations and distribution. […]

After a few weeks in Colorado, my hair had gone completely limp. My usually very curly hair was crispy, flat, thin, and almost straight. I needed a cut. We curly girls can’t just let anyone at it, or risk looking like a triangle, but I was desperate. I searched best curly cuts in Boulder and […]

Just a few days after the school year ended we packed up and moved cross country from NY to Colorado. That sounds so casually adventurous. So easy breezy. Not exactly…it was a big change, but we were ready. The work was all in the cleaning, purging and packing. Trying to keep waste in mind, this […]