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Coffee, Chaos, and Getting Through the Day
I don’t know about in your home, but in mine, coffee has always been part of my story. How about your story? Was coffee part of it? When Charlie was #Homeschooling, I wish I had thought to build a lesson plan around coffee itself. Since learning shouldn’t stop when children, teens, or adults “graduate,” I’ve started calling this a Homeschool Field Trip: Coffee, Routines, and Real-Life Moments. It’s something Charlie, David, and I can still do—whether he’s home or even virtually. Would you want to join us? Growing up, life was a steady rhythm between my mom’s house and my grandma’s. Somewhere in all that movement, there was always a…
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Life in Bloom Travel- Getting Out of the House Changes Everything
It’s Monday morning and I wanted to share another post for our Life in Bloom Travel series- Getting Out of the House Changes Everything. I don’t know about you but there are days when the house just feels like too much. Not because anything is wrong exactly — just because everything feels louder when you stay in the house too long. The same spaces, the same thoughts, the same weight sitting in the background. So, when David gets home, we get in the car. No real plan. No big destination. Just “I need out of here for a minute.” And suddenly the world feels different. As we drive around and…
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The $12 Fridge Clean-Out Dinner That Saved My Sanity
I got up this morning, and I stood in front of the fridge longer than I’d like to admit. Leftovers from the weekend. Half-used ingredients. A couple things I wasn’t even sure I could turn into a meal. Nothing looked like dinner — just pieces of it. I was tired, the kind of tired where even thinking about cooking feels like too much. And for a minute, I almost just closed the door and gave up on it. Instead, I started pulling things out. A little of this. A little of that. Not because I had a plan, but because I didn’t have the energy to overthink it anymore. Twenty…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
