Whether you’re here because you’re looking for the best phones for 10 year olds or phones for teenagers that won’t eat up all of their birthday or holiday money, we’re about to give you eight reasons to take a closer look at the Apple iPhone SE. And since it’s my kids who have been testing…
2022 Holiday Gift Guide
It’s usually that time… time for me to roll out a bigger, better Holiday Gift Guide than I did year before and watch y’all go nutso with excitement, which always brought me more joy than you can even imagine. This would have been my 11th year. Change is hard, but often necessary. After clocking 485…
Canadian furniture & more at Modern Komfort
When we wanted to overhaul our entire living room — from paint to furniture and furniture placement — it was mid-pandemic and there was no way I was having an interior designer into our home, nor was I doing any non-essential in-person shopping at the time either. I searched and searched for online furniture stores…
10th annual holiday gift guide
It’s 2021 and this is my 10th Holiday Gift Guide. (And I’m giving away $13,000+ in holiday gifts, too!) Can you even believe that this holiday gift guide is in its 10th year? It has grown from pretty humble beginnings before I’d even been blogging for a full year into one of the most robust…
Easy-access, inexpensive pelvic floor therapy (online!)
Whether you’ve just had a baby, you’re a teen going through rapid body changes or you’re a middle-aged woman who’s been peeing yourself a little for years with every laugh, cough or jump on the trampoline, THIS IS THE POST FOR YOU. Because two of my readers tried the online pelvic floor therapy sessions through…
Pour-over coffee: everything you need to get started
Our pour-over coffee journey is a relatively new one. It started because I saw a beautiful Bodum carafe at Indigo marked down to just $20 and I thought it would look so much nicer on our countertop than the behemoth coffeemaker and grinder we had there, which was taking up major real estate. But once…
Is the Toyota Sienna Hybrid the most reliable minivan?
When it comes to a new vehicle purchase, few things matter as much as reliability. And if you’ve decided on a minivan, we’ve driven a lot of Toyota Siennas over the years and have heard it called the most reliable minivan many times. The new Sienna Hybrid is the next evolution of the minivan —…
The best iPhone photography tips & hacks
Awhile back on Instagram, I shared an awesome shot of Miss Q doing a “hockey stop” on her skis — I’ll share it again below. It was inspired by a digital discussion I had with Mark Blinch and Pavel Barber who shared their top iPhone photography tips earlier this year, and not only do I…
The largest capacity washer for the laundry room of your dreams
The laundry room of my dreams started with a search for the largest capacity washer I could get my hands on — that would fit into our long, narrow laundry room, that is. I do a lot of laundry and I figured if I could do it less often by increasing the washing machine size,…
A (virtual) list of extracurricular activities
This list of extracurricular activities was updated on September 7, 2021. Ten months into what I hesitate to call any kind of “new normal,” we’ve gotten into a decent groove doing just about everything virtually — and not just work and school. So I wanted to create a post with a running list of extracurricular…