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Direct Energy Free Power Weekends
Whether you use your weekend to hang out with friends or just catch up on all your household to-do’s, this can be a super high-energy-usage time of the week. Between extra cooking, laundry, cleaning, and more, it seems like everything is zapping power. But if you choose Direct Energy, you don’t have to worry about…

Sparkling Summer Fun
As the days get hotter, we’re all looking for ways to cool off and make the most of the summer break. While we don’t always have the budget for theme parks and grand trips, we have learned to make every summer sparkle with even the most minimal resources. Growing up near the (many, MANY) sunny…

#PouchWIN with Gerber® Smart Flow™ pouches
One of our family’s favorite go-to toddler snacks are squeeze pouches, so when we were asked to participate in this campaign for the new Gerber® Smart Flow™ pouches, it was a no-brainer. We already loved Gerber, and the fact that they now have the most brilliant pouches ever just made us love them that much…

Bring a Little (Amazing) Light to your World
Stay with me for a few paragraphs, I’m going to take you on a little trip. Once upon a time, there were a bunch of teenagers, fresh out of high school, on an adventure. In the Amazon jungle. No wifi, no hot showers, just galaxies of stars and hammocks rocking in the breeze. And lots…

Be an Everyday Hero
There are few more personal, life-altering moments than a medical crisis—whether it’s your own, or a complete stranger’s you’ve somehow crossed paths with. Though, as with many families, our history is riddled with crises of various forms, the one I want to talk about here happened without warning and changed the way we thought about…

Things I did wrong in parenthood (and what I’m doing right now)
As a new mom, there were a LOT of things I didn’t have a clue about. There was that time I let my first baby sleep through the night when he was one day old… Because I didn’t know he was supposed to eat every 2-3 hours (yeah, I actually did that). And a myriad…