Defining healthy.

Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

What no one tells you as a child, is that there is a very individual journey for us in life of finding our own unique version of health. I think…

My top 10 Valentine’s Picks!

Gift Ideas, holidays

For our first Valentine’s day Jared and I said no presents so I agreed and just bought him a card and a mini bar of chocolate.  I thought that was the translation…

Grocery Planning and This Week’s Haul

Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

I’m loving sharing our grocery hauls with you!  Food shopping can be overwhelming, and can take much more of our money than we’d like but there are ways to shop…

2016 in Review: Reflections from the Table

lifestyle

When Jared and I were first dating we reflected on the year’s highlights and landed (surprisingly!) on all of our favourite meals!  It’s since become a tradition each New Year, and this year we’ve…

What We Gave (and Received!) this Christmas!

Gift Ideas, holidays

A Mindful Christmas List? Little by little, Jared and I are on a journey to being more mindful with our purchasing in life.  It all started with food but once…

First Foods

Baby

When did you start solid foods? We started offering Clayton food at 6 months, he was already really interested in it, and he could sit up by himself. What meal did…

TRIED & TESTED

lifestyle

Do you ever wish you had a personal chef? Or maybe a personal grocery shopper? Or even just someone to plan out your meals so you get time to cook?! Life can…

What I do when I feel fat.

Health and Wellbeing

Can we be real? I’m pretty sure everyone has days when they wake up and feel like they have more inches somewhere than they want to.   I’m also pretty sure…

My Top 10 Kitchen Essentials (and some luxury items too!)

Gift Ideas, lifestyle

I’m a big fan of minimalist. A few months ago I sold a ton of furniture online, took pictures off the walls, and I think Jared got nervous none of it…

Q and A: Part Two

lifestyle

  You can catch Part 1 of this Q and A over HERE, I loved answering all your questions!  In Part 2 I’m covering: BUSINESS, SOCIAL MEDIA, MISC. WAYS OF…

Q and A – Part One

lifestyle

Q and A time! I don’t always get to answer, or see, all the questions that get asked on instagram so I tried to get them all in one place so I…

The Whole Food Baby: Starting Out

Baby, lifestyle

**A disclaimer: As with everything I write, this post is a combination of my own personal research and opinion, please use common sense, do your own research and consult your physician,…

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

lifestyle

Most of what gets posted around here is from me, Kezia, but Jared is a huge part of the journey and I’ve wanted him to share a bit from his journey…

The ‘other half’ of the diary!

lifestyle

Most of what goes up on Instagram comes from me, Kezia.  While I tend to do the posting, the journey is definitely both mine and my husband’s.  In between his…

Beer, a Meltdown, and the Perfect Post-Baby Body

Baby, lifestyle

I was just about to jump in the shower after a weekend workout when my husband excitedly reminded me that he’d been saving two special beers for us to crack open…

10 Tips for Eating Organic on a Tight Budget

Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

Guest post: by Lauren Dahl of The Living Home Blog.  Lauren is a great friend of mine, we lived together for a year while we both ate a 100% raw vegan…

A Cosmetic Detox (and a whole lot more).

Eco + Conscious Living, lifestyle

(A little preamble for context: I mention a lot of products/brands/apps here but I’m not paid by any of them to talk about them, I promise! My purpose here was to…

Why I gave up New Year’s resolutions

holidays, lifestyle

I’m an all or nothing person.  A black and white person, an on or off person, an ‘eat the whole bar of chocolate or don’t have it in the house’…

Food Labels: The good, the bad, and the slightly misleading.

Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

We’re digging into the truth behind 15 popular food labels to see if they’re really what they say they are, and which ones we can trust most as we shop.  We were…

The first trimester aka The Bread Days

Baby, lifestyle

Toast. My husband has started referring to me affectionately as ‘The Toast Monster’.  These first few months of pregnancy have seen me gracing the kitchen one, two, maybe three times a…

10 tips for An Indulgent and Regret Free Holiday Season

holidays, lifestyle

It’s that time of year again. Whether it’s under the tree, on the tree, at your desk, at a party, at the next party, in the office, in your kitchen…

Honey Nut Granola

Breakfast ideas, Vegan

My family is a sticky note writing family.  As a teenager if I would came home at night after my parents were asleep I would usually find a yellow sticky…