It takes a special kind of crazy person to write about the stuff nobody else does.

These days, I’m both a stay-at-home mom, blogger, and Health Coach —all of which is kind of a surprise, because I’m also the kid who got a job two days after turning 15, as soon as it was legal to work. A couple of decades later, when I was married and pregnant with our second child, I had to go on bedrest—which is when I gained back the 100 pounds I had lost after packing them on for the birth of our oldest daughter.

When our third child was diagnosed with autism, I realized I wouldn’t be going back to work at all—there were too many different therapies and appointments for it to be possible. I got depressed. I medicated myself with food. A lot of food. It got to the point where I didn’t recognize myself anymore. Not only did I look like Fat Bastard from the Austin Powers movies, but I didn’t recognize my life either—if I wasn’t working, who was I?

That’s when I did two life-changing things. Losing the weight—again! This time on the keto diet. And starting this blog. It was my attempt to cram this hot mess of a life into a neat box.
That was two years ago, and I’ve realized that my life—and I’m guessing yours, too—will never fit into a box with a bow on top. Today, this blog is more like a cornucopia, overflowing with love, life, and a whole lot of laughter, mostly at myself.

I can fake neat with my house (for about 30 seconds until the kids swarm in). But I’m not about to fake anything in my life. I’m here to swap recipes and stories, same as if you were ringing my doorbell. Grab a cup of coffee, an adult beverage, or a keto cookie, and come on in.