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I'm Ashley - wife to Kevin, mama to Elliot, clinical pharmacist and health educator, outdoor enthusiast, and lover of design.

A lifestyle journey of faith, family + health

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Visions for 2018
Plant Lady status forever! 🌿🌿 I'm loving the simplicity of our entryway these days, full of plants + meaningful art. The print was my mother in law's, and I love that it brings a bit of her presence here with us. ✨ We made the bench ourselves from an old piece of wood + hairpin legs from Etsy, and simply gathered plants from around the house to complete the space. Simple, meaningful, and frugal! Head over to @scienceandspruce for some plant care tips!
Anyone else feel restless in seasons of change? How do you keep yourself on track? It's easy to set our sights on the ending and lose the beauty of the chaos... but honestly sometimes the chaos is anything but beautiful. (Ex: the state of our kitchen after rushing out the door this morning.) I'm slowing down this afternoon with a little matcha and meditation to help calm my restlessness, journaling gratitutes + diffusing all the zen oils. Taking just five minutes alone to be grateful helps me keep my mind on track!
Mom life in full swing over here. Can you relate? Teething babe (#thankgodforoils), long to-do list. Love me some baby wearing though 🙌🏻✨ carrying around reheated coffee + wooden tethers while I get some things accomplished.
Meal prep is in full swing over here! And since Sunday is our day of rest, we’re relying on simple recipes to make our time in the kitchen minimal. 🙌🏻 Recipe below! . . . . Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Tacos 1.5 lb chicken (I mix breast + thighs) 1/2 yellow onion, diced 1/2 jar organic salsa 2T homemade taco seasoning (recipe on my blog!) Place chicken in slow cooker, and top with onions, taco seasoning + salsa. Cook on low for four hours in a slow cooker or two hours in the instant pot on slow cook function. . . . . About 20 minutes before you want to eat, sauté red onion, sliced bell pepper, sliced zucchini + yellow squash until crisp tender. . . . . Shred chicken in the slow cooker + serve with veggies. We also like to add homemade guacamole. You can serve with cauliflower rice for #whole30 or traditional rice/in taco shells if not Whole30-ing!
Saturday vibes ✨ I managed to get in 30 minutes of quiet before the littles woke up, which is a big victory in my book. That morning power hour/power 30 is always so life giving. I like to read the Word, meditate, journal, read a devotion* and sip my coffee. No phone, no screens, just me and my thoughts and the morning sunlight. It’s amazing how much more calm my mind feels when I make this happen. ✨ Do you have a morning routine? Would love to hear it! . *I’m currently reading ‘Streams in the Desert Morning + Evening’ which is linked in my profile :)
We’ll be back to regular programming tomorrow, but I wanted to share a bit about something I love that rarely goes on sale and is currently on sale! Oils friends. They are legit, amazing, insert your favorite positive adjective here. And I’m offering a $25 Amazon card today so you can get all the pretty rollers and spray bottles!💃🏼😍 Read below about why we started using oils 👇🏻 Link in profile to snag yours - choose Desrt Mist diffuser! DM me with questions. Happy Friday! . When Elliot was born he completely upended my world. Knowing that his health was on my shoulders, I started to dig deeper into our health habits. Turns out a lot do the stuff I thought was good simply wasn’t. From household cleaners to baby products to makeup, I found a lot of ingredients I didn’t want in my home. I wanted tools for daily life and tools to handle the bumps in the road. So I bought some oils and a diffuser thinking, ‘I’ll try it. It has to be better than what we have, and if it doesn’t work at least my house will smell good.’ (True story.) . Fast forward 4&1/2 years and you’ll find us rolling on oils for so many things - immune support, sleep, focus, emotions + tantrums (adult and child 🙈) and more. We’re diffusing oils to purify the air, support our lungs, sleep well, handle all the feels (can you say witching hour?!) , and make our home smell heavenly in the process. . Plus we have plant-based, oil infused cleaners that are safe for our babes + pets but pack a punch in the cleaning department (two words: cloth diapers). Feels like I’m winning at life when I hand Elliot a spray bottle and rag and let him clean the counters. Gotta take the free labor while I can! . The oils kit happens to come with my favorite diffuser (candle flicker setting is life), 11 oils you’ll use daily, a sample of our favorite cleaner and all access to our amazing oils community @goldendropsociety. You’ll never have to wonder how or what to use cause we got you 😉 Get you some oils today friend!
Anyone else feel like this week was the first of the year/month? 🙋🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ We’ve been implementing a couple new systems in our life and it’s been so helpful!! Time blocking (a la @funcheaporfree) + a cleaning schedule for now, and we’ll add a daily chore chart for Elliot soon! Have any favorites?? Give me ALL the systems!
Reminders ✨ Despite it’s challenges, this season of life with the tiny humans is so sweet, and I want to savor the moments. Any other ‘futuristic’ types out there? We are good at casting vision but can also get caught up in ‘what’s next’, losing our focus on the here and now. And while I want to prepare for what’s next, I also want to sit in this season for a while. Soaking in the morning cuddles, feeling my babe’s breath on my neck as he sleeps, answering a million questions from big brother, and yes even folding all the tiny pieces of laundry. ✨