I hear from a lot of women who really struggle to find a good salad dressing that is both healthful and delicious. That is doubly true if you’ve never had anything but the commercial bottled dressings, which are packed with plenty of things you don’t need to put into your body, such as huge amounts [...]

Pardon me for a moment while I do a mini-rant.
I wish, I wish, I wish that healthy eating were the norm here so that it would be possible to find healthful prepared foods easily at grocery stores everywhere.
I wish, I wish, I wish that I didn’t have to plan ahead to eat healthfully when I [...]

I’m a firm believer in living in the moment whenever possible — not overthinking things, not focusing on what you don’t currently have, staying very present in the current moment so that you can enjoy it as much as possible. My emphasis on this is even stronger when our kids are involved. Kids live in [...]

This has taken me a while to write about, but I wanted to give my thoughts on what treats really are and how we should healthfully handle them.
I firmly believe that we as humans need treats, need little indulgences and good things that aren’t everyday things in our lives so that we continue to enjoy [...]

On a mailing list for moms that I subscribe to, the discussion is currently focused on protectiveness. It’s as if biologically, once you become a mother, your brain gets hard-wired to be protective — not just about your own child, but about children everywhere. One woman even suggested that just watching the news has become [...]

In times of stress, it’s super easy to fall into “woe is me” mode. I say that somewhat flippantly, but I don’t actually mean it that way at all. It is easy, too easy, in fact, to think about all that we’re not enjoying at a particular time in our lives. These sorts of feelings [...]

I’ve been beyond swamped lately, what with travel (planned and unexpected), my husband having to travel all the time on business right now and my son teething and going through a growth spurt the past little while. It’s been harder to get to the computer as a result to post, but I wanted to fill [...]

As a total creature of habit, I’ll admit out loud that my household typically has 1 of about 3 things for breakfast on a given day: apple-cinnamon oatmeal, oatmeal pancakes or a smoothie. Breakfast is not a meal I want to spend much time on — thinking about it, prepping it, cleaning up from it [...]