Apologies for the radio silence the last few months. We’re back in the mountains and I have more time, mental space, and inspiration to write a bit. This year has been different than we originally planned, but it’s shaping up …
Category: Life
What Comes With Us – Kitchen Stuff Edition
I cook a lot. By that, I actually mean, A LOT. EVERY. FREAKING. DAY. We can’t always count on the kitchen tools we have available to us at any given Airbnb rental, so we’ve prioritized space in our car for …
Why do you do what you do? You can answer that…right?
A friend of a friend on the TEDx selection committee in Tahoe suggested the we apply to give a talk early next year. That sounds like crazy talk to me, but it is making me think. Do we have an …
The Big Purge – the story of how we eliminated all (ok, most) of our stuff
Y’all this was hard. But if I’m being completely honest, my organizational skills closely resemble those of Monica Gellar, so this project was a beast, but I owned it. In about 5 months we got rid of about half of …
2017 Gameplan/We Don’t Actually Know, Please Help
The end of 2016 brought some life changes that we definitely didn’t anticipate. Namely, we bought out Travis’ business partner and suddenly my 2.5 year work hiatus has ended as I’m jumping in to help Travis revamp the business, launch new …
How We Travel
I’ve encountered a number of traveling families who bounce around quite a bit and cover ground really quickly. That’s cool and all, but it’s not for us. We did a long Europe trip in the fall of 2015 and hit …
Educating Kyle
We are raising Kyle to be a kind, loving, compassionate, self-disciplined, well-informed, humble yet bold, generous, considerate person. I hope he develops passions that lead to a satisfying career and life. I hope he enjoys his life and consciously makes …
Amanda’s Epic Health Saga
My health took a nosedive when I was about 7 months pregnant in February 2011. Both sides of our family were going through major trauma and I absorbed the stress of those events like a sponge. I then had 22 …
Rethinking Roles in Racism
I had a fundamental shift in my thinking tonight. I’ve been racking my brain, praying, and meditating about what we (as a family) should do about systemic racism. Maybe I’m late to the party here, but my perspective shifted when …
Rough Day in Boise: Attitude Adjustment – for me!
Our day was an emotional rollercoaster. Kyle and Travis were tired all day and I haven’t been sleeping stellar the whole time we’ve been here. That’s a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Kyle is really on edge as it is. We …