What is Hygge? Maybe you already know. I didn’t. Just learned about it a few weeks ago from a new friend. If you don’t know about hygge, let’s begin with the basics: How on earth do you pronounce it? “Hygge” is a Danish word, with its phonetic pronunciation something close
My childhood in many ways was Norman Rockwell-ish. Does anyone even know what that means anymore? If you don’t, Google it. My mom also had an ideal childhood and wanted to recreate that for my brother and me — and even my dad. He grew up on a farm and
Last night, I crawled in the bottom bunk to read to Ada. She picked three books like always, a rule we took from one of our favorite stories, Olivia. We read The Giving Tree by the warm glow of twinkle-lights wrapped around the bed frame. It’s one we’ve read many
For those of you that don’t know, in my other life I am a children’s yoga teacher. A few years ago I created my own curriculum (called Yogalore) that I use for my classes. Soon after I decided to make the curriculum available to others — parents, grandparents, teachers, and
My mom passed away five years ago; my dad about four years ago. It’s been a rough couple of years for my family. My mom passed away from complications from COPD and emphysema. Her goal was to live long enough to be able to see Jake (my son) graduate high
As I write this post, we’re at the beginning of this fun little adventure — where lives are turned upside down and small things we often took for granted are suddenly hard to come by (I still don’t understand hoarding toilet paper!) Many of you are at home with your