I used to style people for a living, and now I style dinner plates and toddler outfits instead. Somehow it’s the same job.
Before kids, I worked as a personal stylist and did some freelance styling for small local photo shoots. I loved the work, but it wasn’t exactly built for someone who wanted a family too, so when I had my son I stepped back and started looking for a new outlet. Cooking became that outlet almost by accident. I’d always cooked for fun, but once I was home more, I started experimenting for real, testing recipes on my husband and, later, on two very opinionated kids who are not afraid to tell me a dish “needs work.”
This site is where I write about the three things that actually make up my day: what’s for dinner, what I’m wearing, and whatever chaos parenting threw at me that week. I’m not a trained chef and I don’t pretend to be. What I am is someone who cooks real food for a real family on a real schedule, and who still cares about throwing on something decent before the school pickup line.
A couple years back I put together a cookbook built around the recipes my family actually requests on repeat, no fancy techniques required, and it’s available on Amazon now. Writing it made me realize how much I enjoy breaking recipes down step by step for people who are cooking on a weeknight timeline, not a Sunday-afternoon one.
My style content leans thrifted and mixed-in, mostly because that’s how I actually shop. I’ll pair a secondhand find with something new and call it a day. My parenting posts are less “expert advice” and more “here’s what worked for us, take what’s useful and skip the rest.”
I live in the Midwest with my husband, our two kids, and roughly four thousand hair ties that somehow always disappear right when I need one. If something on the site helped you out, or you think I got a recipe wrong, I’d genuinely like to hear about it through the contact page.
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