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Camping Checklist: Essentials and Extras for Happy Campers + Spreadsheet

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The Ultimate Family Camping Checklist: Essential Gear + Spreadsheet!

August 11, 2020

Meal Planning Coronavirus

Food / Spreadsheets

Meal Planning in the Time of Coronavirus + Spreadsheet

March 27, 2020

Choosing a Preschool: How to find the best preschool for your family + template download

Motherhood / Spreadsheets

Choosing a Preschool: How to Find a School + Childcare Cost Calculator Spreadsheet

March 7, 2020

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Take Charge of Your Money: My 5 Best Personal Finance Tips

February 3, 2017

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Mud Kitchen DIY: Our Inspiration + Mud Kitchen Plans

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Best Active Toys for Kids: Exciting Indoor Play at Home!

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Winter Books for Preschoolers & Toddlers – Our 12 Favorites

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New post on the blog about mud kitchen accessories

New post on the blog about mud kitchen accessories! What to buy and what to thrift and what to steal from your kitchen rejects. 🤪

While tons of brands have really cute play kitchen and mud kitchen stuff, our kiddos favorite items are things that aren’t “kid” products. Isn’t that the way it always goes though?! Link in bio of our favs.

Stuck in the house for a week from wildfire smoke,

Stuck in the house for a week from wildfire smoke, we’re pretty thankful for all these books (and that we have a house still!). Keeping up with outdoor adventures by reading 😭 My toddler said “we’re indoor people now” the other day and I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry.

As the summer season comes to an end, and we’re praying for rain in the PNW, here are nine of our favorite books from this summer. LINK IN BIO

This is our favorite page in Everything You Need For a Treehouse, and it reminds us of cousins in Hawaii. ❤️

My [heavy] heart is in Oregon. Things are ablaze,

My [heavy] heart is in Oregon. Things are ablaze, but feeling grateful to be in our home. And most of the hazardous AQI on the outside of the house. The Weekender this week:
🌲adventures - indoors 😳🤷‍♀️
🔥 Ways to help fire relief. 3 things I’m doing
👩🏼‍💻writing
📖reading: “Voters who lived within 15km (nine miles) of a recent wildfire were four to six percentage points more likely to support pro-climate initiatives than those living 35-40km away. Each additional 10km reduced environmental zeal by around 1.7 percentage points, on average” interesting article from last year.

LINK IN BIO hug the ones you love ❤️

And just like that, fall can’t come soon enough!

And just like that, fall can’t come soon enough! Almost every September in the West brings wildfires and smoke now. One week you’re camping and playing in the forests. The next week, you’re canceling camping trips, hunkered inside, watching the AQI before venturing out, and looking on in horror as your state’s natural wonderland is being consumed by wildfire and your friends are evacuating their families and animals. Praying for rain 🌧☔️ and the winds to die down, and all the fire fighters and families who’ve already lost so much.

So yeah the last thing you need right now is a fall bucket list. But today we needed an indoor activity to pass the time. And top of my list? RAIN! 🙏☔️ (LINK IN BIO)

2 weeks of summer left! 😎 It’s been super blu

2 weeks of summer left! 😎 It’s been super blustery the last 24hrs in Portland and 🙏for all the wildfires on west coast right now.

The Weekender is up on the blog from last week:
🏕adventuring - kid-free camping at Trillium lake
🚣‍♀️kayaking and SUP the Willamette and at Cathedral Park
👩🏼‍💻 writing
📺 watching - @ricksteveseurope fascism video
Happy short week this week!

LINK IN BIO

2 weeks left of summer and I’m already reminisci

2 weeks left of summer and I’m already reminiscing about my favorite camping trip at Suttle Lake and playing at Scout Lake. 😍 LINK IN BIO! Scout Lake is such a fun place to swim and play with little kids since the water has shallow parts and is so clear! 🏊🏻‍♀️🚣‍♀️🗻☀️

Something I’ve struggled with in the first few y

Something I’ve struggled with in the first few years of motherhood is taking time for myself (away from home). I’m really good at getting out and adventuring WITH my kiddo. I’m not as good at prioritizing time away and actually making it happen. This is a goal of mine for the next year! A mom friend and I were talking about going camping without the kids and it almost became one of those “yeah we should!!” ideas. But then we actually booked it!

24 hour camping trip to Trillium lake with girlfriends. Kayaking, SUP, drinks, camp food, hammock circle (no campfire because burn ban), and so much silliness and talking. So much talking. We stopped talking just to sleep 😴🤣

It’s hard to plan any travel right now but camping was a great way to do a lady trip! Where to next!? 🏕❤️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

After having several text threads going about the

After having several text threads going about the gear we’ll wish we had bought NOW, when winter comes.🤣 I rounded up some new ideas and active toys we have. Here are the best 🤸🏽ACTIVE🤸‍♀️ indoor toys for kids and toddlers. Yes, we still get outside in all weather. However, it’s not like summer when we practically live outdoors some days.

Especially this year, when we won’t be going to do indoor play anywhere. And many have kiddos at home “homeschooling” all day. So check out the list, each option has a splurge and a save choice. And no, we don’t have everything on this list 🤣. But I did buy 2 things off the list that I’m hiding for a rainy day or week? 🤔☔️

👉swipe for a younger version of my kiddo enjoying a few of these 😭
2. Teeter poppin’
3. Combining the bouncing pony with the slide and booty shaking Jingle Bells
4. Biking in the house

21 days of summer left. 🧐☀️ The Weekender

21 days of summer left. 🧐☀️

The Weekender is up on the blog:
🏕 Camping in Florence
🚣‍♀️ kayaking and swimming Cleawox lake
🍦 Sandy River play and @sugarpinedrivein 2x because someone was pretty jealous they missed out
👩🏼‍💻 blogging
📚 reading and thinking including an article I read about “both and” thinking: Our brains struggle to process this much stress. “Our new normal is always feeling a little off balance, like trying to stand in a dinghy on rough seas, and not knowing when the storm will pass.”

LINK IN BIO ❤️

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New post on the blog about mud kitchen accessories

New post on the blog about mud kitchen accessories! What to buy and what to thrift and what to steal from your kitchen rejects. 🤪

While tons of brands have really cute play kitchen and mud kitchen stuff, our kiddos favorite items are things that aren’t “kid” products. Isn’t that the way it always goes though?! Link in bio of our favs.

Stuck in the house for a week from wildfire smoke,

Stuck in the house for a week from wildfire smoke, we’re pretty thankful for all these books (and that we have a house still!). Keeping up with outdoor adventures by reading 😭 My toddler said “we’re indoor people now” the other day and I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry.

As the summer season comes to an end, and we’re praying for rain in the PNW, here are nine of our favorite books from this summer. LINK IN BIO

This is our favorite page in Everything You Need For a Treehouse, and it reminds us of cousins in Hawaii. ❤️

My [heavy] heart is in Oregon. Things are ablaze,

My [heavy] heart is in Oregon. Things are ablaze, but feeling grateful to be in our home. And most of the hazardous AQI on the outside of the house. The Weekender this week:
🌲adventures - indoors 😳🤷‍♀️
🔥 Ways to help fire relief. 3 things I’m doing
👩🏼‍💻writing
📖reading: “Voters who lived within 15km (nine miles) of a recent wildfire were four to six percentage points more likely to support pro-climate initiatives than those living 35-40km away. Each additional 10km reduced environmental zeal by around 1.7 percentage points, on average” interesting article from last year.

LINK IN BIO hug the ones you love ❤️

And just like that, fall can’t come soon enough!

And just like that, fall can’t come soon enough! Almost every September in the West brings wildfires and smoke now. One week you’re camping and playing in the forests. The next week, you’re canceling camping trips, hunkered inside, watching the AQI before venturing out, and looking on in horror as your state’s natural wonderland is being consumed by wildfire and your friends are evacuating their families and animals. Praying for rain 🌧☔️ and the winds to die down, and all the fire fighters and families who’ve already lost so much.

So yeah the last thing you need right now is a fall bucket list. But today we needed an indoor activity to pass the time. And top of my list? RAIN! 🙏☔️ (LINK IN BIO)

2 weeks of summer left! 😎 It’s been super blu

2 weeks of summer left! 😎 It’s been super blustery the last 24hrs in Portland and 🙏for all the wildfires on west coast right now.

The Weekender is up on the blog from last week:
🏕adventuring - kid-free camping at Trillium lake
🚣‍♀️kayaking and SUP the Willamette and at Cathedral Park
👩🏼‍💻 writing
📺 watching - @ricksteveseurope fascism video
Happy short week this week!

LINK IN BIO

2 weeks left of summer and I’m already reminisci

2 weeks left of summer and I’m already reminiscing about my favorite camping trip at Suttle Lake and playing at Scout Lake. 😍 LINK IN BIO! Scout Lake is such a fun place to swim and play with little kids since the water has shallow parts and is so clear! 🏊🏻‍♀️🚣‍♀️🗻☀️

Something I’ve struggled with in the first few y

Something I’ve struggled with in the first few years of motherhood is taking time for myself (away from home). I’m really good at getting out and adventuring WITH my kiddo. I’m not as good at prioritizing time away and actually making it happen. This is a goal of mine for the next year! A mom friend and I were talking about going camping without the kids and it almost became one of those “yeah we should!!” ideas. But then we actually booked it!

24 hour camping trip to Trillium lake with girlfriends. Kayaking, SUP, drinks, camp food, hammock circle (no campfire because burn ban), and so much silliness and talking. So much talking. We stopped talking just to sleep 😴🤣

It’s hard to plan any travel right now but camping was a great way to do a lady trip! Where to next!? 🏕❤️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️

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