Category Archives: my favorite things

i feel like i just won the lottery!

Some of you might remember that I posted about a Hylands product a while back called Calendula.  It was referred to me by a friend and we LOVE it.  We orginally used it for a diaper rash, but I now use it for all sorts of skin irritations. Well, the company, actually Ruben, emailed me...

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authentically me

I put off starting a blog for SO long, because I hate doing what everyone else is doing and jumping on the bandwagon.  I finally caved in since it is such a powerful marketing tool for my business and consequently have found it to be quite therapeutic on a personal level. A journal that the...

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just take the photos.

We had SO much fun.  It officially was won over as a full fledged kid focused trip as we are pulling up the hills near UCSD.  I was humming to myself the tune to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, but I was replacing “sex” with “sweat” so that the chorus was more...

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how it all began…

Everyone is asleep & my body keeps telling that I should be, but my mind is spinning from our wonderful valentine’s weekend on bikes with my husband and three kids, ages 1, 5 and 7.  It all started with an article in Bicycling magazine about this crazy guy who hooks up all three kids in...

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valentine’s dreams.

Nothing could be better than a valentines day spent pedaling our family of five to a campground 30 miles north to enjoy some heart shaped pasta, an inexpensive bottle of wine bought at the camp store and smores made with Nutella.  This was just a shorter test run, because we didn’t know how well our...

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