It’s one thing to sit on the couch and dream of heading outside for a great adventure. But it’s entirely different thing to actually do it. How do you make yourself do the outdoor adventures you always say you want to do but never quite get around to doing? It’s simple: make an outdoor plan. […]
Shopping for Luke is really tricky. If he wants something, he buys it. He doesn’t need me to make it happen. But sometimes you do just need to get your person something they wouldn’t actually buy for themselves. Bonus points if that thing is also practical. Enter Cairn. A new subscription box service, Cairn sends […]
When my kids were a little younger, and the school day was not yet a thing in their lives, I worked a full time, non-traditional schedule job from home with my then 2- and 5-year-old boys. I almost never hired help for while I was working. They rarely watched TV during the day. And although it […]
It’s one thing to say “oh yeah, we’re going to totally start over and head off on a big new life adventure” and it’s another thing to make it actually happen. Starting over sounds kind of pricey. And we are not going to go into debt. So who has the money to just up and leave […]
When we first started car camping (that means driving to the camping spot — not camping in your car, although you could do that too) I thought we needed all the things. All of them. Part of this was because buying new things for camping sounded like a lot of fun. Part of it was […]
I just wrote a whole blog post about contentment and how I’m super into it, but how I’m now ready for a life of action. And then I deleted it. Because it was a lie. I want to be a person who has, at some point, been content with normal life. But I’m just not. I […]
If you’re anything like me or many other busy Americans — parents or not — your afternoons are action packed. If you work full time, you might be squeezing in a workout before rolling home starving. If you have kids that time after school and before dinner time is crammed with activities, homework, appointments and […]
When we made this outside Christmas plan we didn’t fully grasp the kind of dream work we would have ahead of us at this time. But boy do we have work to do. We have big plans to make, outside dreams to plot. Six months from today our lives will look totally and dramatically different. “You know […]
So it’s that first really chilly run day of the year, and you’re headed out to log some miles. Here’s what’s going through your mind. 37 Things You Think During the First Cold Run of the Season 1. Wow what an amazing chilly, crisp day. Woohoo it’s not hot! No more pouring sweat. 2. HOLY MOTHER […]