by melissa | May 6, 2015 | Family, Featured, Simple Living
I’m familiar with company mission statements, but never thought about my family as a company that should have its own mission statement. After reading a newsletter from my pal Joel about implementing this idea in his life (the original idea came from Tsh...
by melissa | Apr 16, 2015 | Featured, Parenting
“The days are long, but the years are short.” – Gretchen Rubin This week is my son Owen’s second birthday. It seems like just the other day I was in intense pain laboring to bring him into the world and now here we are celebrating his second year of life. He has...
by melissa | Apr 2, 2015 | Relationships, Simple Living, Time Management
Remember when you were younger and you called your friends (on the landline phone) to see if they wanted to play? What about sending a letter to your cousin who lived in another state? As time passed we started emailing and texting those same people to stay in touch....
by melissa | Mar 18, 2015 | Relationships, Simple Living
I was enjoying a solo lunch at Chipotle last week and found myself observing and thinking about how the other customers were interacting (or not) with each other. The thing that really got to me was the lack of real-life connection between people eating lunch together...
by melissa | Feb 24, 2015 | Inspirational, Simple Living
I want to share my family’s not-so-simple journey to an intentional life with the hope that it will give you motivation to live more intentionally yourself. I want you to realize I was an ordinary person living the “template life” who took step after step to create a...
