The Sweeter Side of Mommyhood

Oh man, cue all the happy tears! After *years* of effort Brandon and I are finally ready to share that we are building our custom dream home! We literally drew our house out with paper and pencil and our amazing builders (more on them soon!!) brought our dream to life. This new home will be a completely custom 5 bedroom 3.5 bath house that is EXACTLY what we want and need. Every subtle detail has been thought out, discussed and hashed out over the course of more than a year and designed perfectly for our taste and lifestyle. Up until now there were quite a few hypotheticals and details up in the air (thank you covid/quarantine/pandemic/economy shift) but at this point we are only waiting on ... read more

Easter posts get me all choked up right now so I’m quite literally typing this through tears- with so much uncertainty and stress, anxiety and unknown in our kids lives right now I’m excited to have a holiday to focus on. A deep reminder of our faith, a fun and exciting day to break up the monotony of quarantine and a perfect excuse to treat my favorite girlies with little things I know will make them smile.  I get a huge knot in my chest thinking about Easter this year and how different it will be for so many families (ours included). Precious traditions and ceremonies will be dearly missed or done differently. But I feel incredibly lucky to have the power to still make this holiday ... read more

I have consistently been getting questions about how kids can learn ASL at home while they’re stuck in quarantine. While this blog post isn’t about American Sign Language resources, it IS about a fun supplemental activity your kids can work on while they’re learning the ASL alphabet. I’ve turned my ASL Coloring Book into free printable coloring pages you can use at home with your kids or students to learn the asl alphabet. This post contains letters A through F and my next few blog posts will continue to share the rest of the letters in manageable chunks. I’ve also added printable pages for the whole asl alphabet that you can use as learning resources or just ... read more

With gyms closed and activities limited, kid friendly workout routines are becoming a necessity! I shared our exercise alphabet on Instagram the other day and so many people “saved” the post so they could come back to it for ideas and/or to make their own exercise alphabet. Use the kid friendly exercise alphabet by selecting a word. We chose the word Monday for our first workout. Here is what that looked like: M- 30 second plankO- 50 high knees N- 5 laps (jog around the room or around your house etc)D- 20 glute bridge holdsA- 20 mountain climbers Y- 5 broad jumps You can repeat the word a few times or keep picking new words. My girls each wanted to pick a word so we did ... read more