If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m past the point of baby tips and tricks. If you want those, you can obviously look in my archives but now with a 9 (almost 10 year old) and 7 year old, we’re in a different phase of life…. [Read More]
3 Takeaways from The Innovation Stack
A LONG time ago, I met Jim McKelvey. At the time, he was blowing glass at Third Degree Glass Factory here in St. Louis. Jim helped me coordinate my wedding reception at the facility. Now he’s the author of “The Innovation Stack”. He was quirky, smart and had the best dry sense of humor. Little… [Read More]
Two Tweaks I Made To My Nutrition Game
Let me start by saying I’m striving for progress not perfection. I’m experienced (former certified trainer and group fitness instructor, fitness competitor) and I have a lot of knowledgeable resources (that we all can have). And yes, I will include links (affiliate links) to some of the products I use and LOVE. If you think… [Read More]
Here To Be Me
If you’ve been reading this blog or following me on Instagram for any length of time, you’ve noticed I guess I’ve branded myself as a runner. Always logging the miles, most of the time struggling and never quite feeling those easy breezy runs that the world chats about. I’ve always wanted to believe that I’m… [Read More]
My Right Start with Start Right
While this is a paid post, all opinions are my own. My fitness journey has been ongoing since I left organized sports in college. When people stopped telling me what to do and when to do it. Since then I’ve had to determine what my new normal looked like and how I would continue to… [Read More]
My Fitness Journey…My Why
If you’re fairly new around here, you might want to get to know me a little better and how and why fitness is such a huge part of my life. So here it goes… My “Why”… I wish I could give you a sappy answer about it being for my kids but that would be… [Read More]
What the hell dude?
Login attempt #1 Tried logging in….I forgot my username. Racked my brain for a while till it came to me. Login attempt #2 Username was successful…password was incorrect. Shit. What was it?! (make mental note to not wait this long to try to log in to the blog admin console) Login attempt #3 Searches desperatley… [Read More]
Valencia Orange Spritz
This post is sponsored by Sunkist, but all thoughts and opinions are my own. Summers use to be somewhat lazy. The kids were younger. There weren’t multiple sports schedules and camp schedules to schedule. Life meant work, and evenings cooking and playing in the yard. Now it’s as crazy as the school year. When I… [Read More]
Farro Citrus Salad & Moroccan Eggplant Meatballs with Lemon Yogurt Sauce
This post is sponsored by Sunkist, but all thoughts and opinions are my own. Run here, play this, wash that. This is my life. All summer. It’s been kind of a drag but what hasn’t been a drag is experimenting with recipes and finding new flavors and foods to help us break out of our… [Read More]