Recipes

​Hello Honey Crisp​: My Favorite Fall Apple Recipes

Friday, October 02, 2015


It is that time of year when you need to toss an extra blanket on your bed, pull on a warm sweater before heading out the door and turn off the air conditioning in favor of throwing open the windows. Fall is here.

Autumn heralds many things that I look forward to immensely - pumpkin spice lattes, I'm talking about you - but my absolute favorite thing about fall is apples. I am obsessed with honey crisp apples, and so I can't help adding an apple-related post this week to celebrate the advent of fall.

So Life

When Good is Enough

Friday, September 18, 2015


This week I wanted to write a post sharing my excitement for the blog's new design. Unfortunately, you're being subjected to a bit of a rant instead. I have a problem with comparing myself to others. I compare what I look like, how much I weigh, what state my home is in, how well behaved my child is, the list goes on and on. And now I even compare what my blog looks like to others. Which is really sad because this blog is meant to be a place of comfort and creativity for me, not another mechanism for judgement. 

I hoped a blog would encourage positive thoughts, not self-doubt and perfectionism. Unfortunately, I can't seem to escape the insatiable need to be perfect, even in a cyber world. I've realized that sometimes being good enough is not good enough for me.


Home Sweet Chicago

Labor Day Staycation: Why I love Logan Square

Friday, September 04, 2015


Sometimes in life you are lucky enough to live in a place so fabulous, that you look forward to the opportunity to stay home instead of travel. Right now, I feel that way about our current neighborhood in Chicago - Logan Square. And I love to travel, a lot. But this Labor Day, instead of traveling over the long weekend, we will be staying put. Why, you ask? Here are 26 super fun, and many super delicious, reason why:


Cloth Diapers

Oh, Crap...Cleaning Cloth Diapers

Thursday, August 27, 2015


One of the biggest cons to cloth diapers is cleaning them. Poop is gross. Period. I don't even like saying the word. I used to refer to it as crap. But I'm a mom now so using that word is frowned upon. Especially now that I have a toddler who likes to play copy cat.

I'll be the first to admit that it is a million times easier to just toss a disposable diaper into the garbage. But as I mentioned in my first post about why we cloth diaper, I have a hard time tossing hundreds of diapers into the garbage knowing they're just going to go sit in some landfill for ages. It may not be pretty, but in a weird way cleaning and re-using cloth diapers is good for my soul. 

So, on to the nitty gritty of our cloth diaper cleaning routine.

It's Time to Do Something About ​​Paid Family Leave​ in America​

Thursday, August 13, 2015

"We’re introducing an unlimited leave policy for new moms and dads that allows them to take off as much time as they want during the first year after a child’s birth or adoption," as stated in the August 4th Netflix blog post.

Whoa...did I just read that right? Up to a year of paid leave for both moms and dads? Did I go to sleep and somehow wake up in Europe? Because this can't be happening in the United States, the only country other than Oman (a country I've never even heard of) and Papua New Guinea to not guarantee paid maternity leave according to a 2014 United Nations study.

The report, conducted by the International Labor Union, also states that the US offers new mothers fewer weeks of maternity leave than any other Western country. Way to go 'Merica! Obviously, I am less than thrilled with our country's treatment of new working mothers and am in a state of ​wonder at Netflix's new policy, which not only creates opportunities for new working mothers, but new working fathers as well. Talk about a giant leap forward.

Motherhood

Our Hawaiian Adventure with a Toddler

Thursday, July 30, 2015



I love to travel. I also love my daughter. However toddlers and travel don't usually ever go well together. 

As we approached our five year anniversary, my husband and I wanted to take a trip to celebrate. We considered a romantic escape for two, but truth is, we really like our kid and wanted to do something as a family. After all, starting our family has been the greatest achievement of our marriage so far. 

We tossed around a few ideas and finally decided on Hawaii. Neither of us had ever been there, we could do a lot of of hiking as well as spend time relaxing at the beach, and as part of the United States, everything there was pretty familiar to us. And because, Hawaii:

So Life

Take Time

Thursday, July 09, 2015

My husband and I recently took two weeks off from work and our little family of three went on vacation. It was heavenly. It was the epitome of vacation and we tried to do as little “work” as possible. Which for me meant not only stepping away from my real job, but this little blog as well. We needed to take time to focus on our family.

After vacation, I planned to write something about our trip for my next post. Unfortunately upon our return, I learned that my grandfather had passed. Coming back to reality became difficult on an entirely different level. He had been in hospice care for a while, so I knew that the time would come to have to say goodbye, but I still wasn’t prepared for how hard it would be. So instead of writing about vacation, I’d like to write about my Grandpa - Lloyd J. Hill, Jr.



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