In this episode, we are kicking off Sammy’s favorite season, fall, with one of Jen’s favorite topics – HYGGE! What the heck is hygge, you may ask? Hygge is defined as ‘a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment and wellbeing’ by Oxford Languages, but...
This is truly the best, from-scratch, bread recipe you will ever have. I have full intentions of at some point building this post out more thoroughly, but for now, I just need a place to have this recipe live instead of searching through hundreds of text messages to try to...
For season 2 of the Millennial Pioneer Podcast, we’re feeling the nudge to talk more about “slow living”. Maybe it’s the high levels of anxiety we’re experiencing as a culture, maybe it’s the onslaught of “cottage core” and homesteading romanticization… but there is something that is nudging us all to...
It’s honestly been the most amazing week. It was my 40th birthday, I had family in town to help me celebrate, and Nick and I got away for an amazing two nights in Boston. Let just tell you, the weather is HORRIBLE while we were in Boston. We got pelted...
I don’t naturally feel the call of the outdoors to get outside and play. In all honesty, I’m not a great “player” at all. In California it was easy year round to fling the door wide open to our gated yard and say, “go play” and know that my kids...
Healthy hot butterbeer recipe. Paleo and Keto friendly, and dairy-free optional. This nourishing copycat recipe of Harry Potters butterbeer will not have you missing the “real thing”. Don’t stone me… but I wouldn’t exactly consider myself a Harry Potter fan. My husband has tried to get me to watch it...
Make this holiday season less about the stuff of Christmas, and more about the magic that happens when we make memories with those we love. Finding authentic joy during the holidays
My top 10 hygge playlists on Spotifty that I use to create calm and well being in my home. We currently live in a world where we allow ourselves to be swallowed into our electronic devices and forget what it feels like to be present and experience life’s simplest pleasures....
So you have heard about the new Danish craze that is hygge (HOO-gah)? Merriam Dictionary defines it as: Hygge is a quality of coziness that makes a person feel content and comfortable. I feel with any given “fad” that swirls around the interwebs, there instantly becomes a niche market created that...
Hygge. Recognizing and allowing the joy of the simplest pleasures to run over you. Without attaching a word, let alone a foreign word to it before, I have snuggled into this way of living my whole life. Simple cups of coffee become moments that stop time. Rainy days are days to pull...
