Real life, on purpose.

Mila Monday: A Family Culture of Gratitude

in Family, Goals, Weekly Photos on

Throughout all the brainstorming, writing, sending, posting, and receiving feedback on my Gratitude On Purpose course, I’ve obviously had gratitude on my mind A TON. I speak my gratitude more often, and I notice it (or the lack of it) in others way more than I have before. Adults can be hard to read; we get really good at wearing… View Post

Happy Halloween!

in Celebrations, Holidays on

From Gekko… …Princess Peach… …and the fastest, fiercest cheetah around! Hope it was a good one for your family too! You may also enjoy: Halloween “Costume” Mila Monday: Seventy-four Weeks & A Halloween Costume FAIL Halloween Costume #2: Hulk Hogan

Gratitude On Purpose

in Goals on

Friends, I have been brainstorming + working on this project for what feels like forever and am SO EXCITED to finally make this available to you! WHAT IS GRATITUDE ON PURPOSE? Gratitude On Purpose is a 21-day email course/challenge to help you live more fully in gratitude. You give me your email address, and I send you writing prompts, thought… View Post

Mila Monday: Road Trips

in Adventures, Family, Weekly Photos on

We had such a good time on our spring break road trip to Antelope Canyon that I really wanted to do something similar for fall break. Something fairly close to home, but interesting and new that we’d never done before. (Fun fact: one of my hobbies is planning trips I will probably never take. I put together an Italy itinerary… View Post

Some Updates

in Blogging on

There’s a new (ish) post on the Travel page: 3 Days in LA (with kids and NO theme parks)! We had such a fun trip in July that it kept my wanderlust pretty well satisfied for a couple months. The beach is my happy place. That said, I just got back last week from my first ever trip to New… View Post