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The Fall Style Horoscope with Astrologist Britten LaRue
To me, style is best when it’s personal. However, it’s almost impossible for our consciousness or even sub-consciousness to keep out the influence of trends. I personally love to see someone take a style trend while finding a way to make it authentic to his or her personal style and therefore completely unique. I like […]
Starting a Homeschool Garden
On top of all of our Dallas pick-your-own farm trips last summer, I cajoled Markus for a garden of our very own. Never mind that I knew nothing about gardening and had always found it relatively futile when there was perfectly nice food waiting at the store. Like most of my ideas, my new found […]
Posts That Mean A lot To Us
- My 10 Steps for Keeping Resentment in Check
About a year ago was the first time I really felt myself figuring out “adulting.” (Don’t draw attention to the facts that I had been working, paying a mortgage and […] - Where to Stop When Driving from Texas to Colorado
Where to stop, stay and explore on the family drive from Texas to Colorado, featuring routes from Dallas to Telluride and Vail, with pit stops in Amarillo, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. The best summer road trip for families!
- Home Actually Is Where the Heart Is
Post Written by Markus Home. It’s a short little word – but the story behind it is usually anything but short. We each have a home with our family of […]
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A Weekend Trip from Dallas at Greer Farm
Last summer I was parenting without any day schools, camps or general child care lined up. To fill our days, I became one with the farm visit. To me, visiting a local-ish farm is the perfect day trip from Dallas – the drive clears my head, the exploring tires my child and the finds pre-determine […]
Shopping Second Hand Online with Evolving Style
From the Editor: My name is Lilly and I’m a clothesaholic. My mother always had me “dressed up” growing up, which fostered a love for “getting dressed” over putting on clothes. Most of how my Mom afforded our outfits was through shopping second hand. When our daughter came along, I was also in love with […]
Renting on Outdoorsy: Our RV Rental Review
I was speaking to someone with psychic abilities at the end of last year, and she told me I would not go on a vacation in 2020 but could see some weekend getaways. I was surprised, because all we had planned was the opposite – a one week road trip through California. Who knew 2020 […]
New Digs: Our Waldorf Inspired Homeschool Room and Atelier Tour
It’s been quiet around here. Not here, in our family, but here where we share our stories. Like I assume it has been for you, for us life has been happening at a rate like never before. But stories – those come together at their own pace, especially the ones worth sharing. For me, life […]
The Lesson Plan That Kids Need in a Pandemic is “Love + Family”
“If all my kid learns from social distancing is to be a good person, we’ll be fine.“ It’s been quite a season. You know, since I welcomed my daughter six years ago. I’ve totally meant to call you back, to read literature nightly to my child and bake together. It’s just that I’ve been so busy. You […]
How Lilly Neubauer Spends Her Wednesday
MOMS WE LOVE master your craft like this Dallas mom Words The Editors Published March 2020/DallasChildUpdated March 9, 2020 Lilly Neubauer finds beauty in the simple things. She is the founder of Camp Crafty Parties, which brings old-fashioned arts and crafts to modern celebrations. Along with her husband Markus, Neubauer created the blog Open Hearted […]
Modern Family Photos
When I started Love Child, I had a vision of the types of women, some of whom would be moms, that would hopefully follow along. They would be strong, independent, creative, modern, and inspirational. One of the questions I often asked myself when pregnant (and now as a mom) is why? Why do I have […]
Trading my Job for Simplicity [with Lilly Neubauer]
Some people make big life changes in search of simplicity–Lilly Neubauer is one of them. When the busyness in her life spiraled out of control, Lilly quit her job to get her family back on track. I look forward to sharing her story with you today. Show Links: Trading my Job for Minimalism (Lilly’s Guest Post […]
Our Amazon Finds for a Simple, Sustainable Home
Post written by Lilly When we moved into our first home, my priorities for how to feather our nest were based on what guests would see and, in my perception, judge our home’s worthiness on – beautiful furniture, luxurious curtains and many, many fancy knick knacks. Our second home, I started our “new home shopping […]
Raising This Little Kid and Also Teaching Her (And My) Inner Child
Post Written by Markus NOTE: Hello, Reader. This is a post about love, healing, and connection that happens to be on the topic of raising a child – as I write this, specifically that’s my five-year-old daughter. There are many ways to raise a kid and one of the awesome things about being a parent […]
Expect the Unexpected: Releasing Expectations for Authentic Joy
Post written by Lilly I sat in a fluorescent lit conference room, posture erect and J. Crew pencil skirt freshly ironed. I was 25 years old. The executive director of the nonprofit I was interviewing with asked me the dreaded question. “So, what’s your five year plan?” My five minute plan was to say anything […]
Is There Even Such a Thing as Men’s Intuition?
Post by Markus Hi, my name’s Markus and I’m a human – specifically, a middle-class white American straight male thirty-something raised in a large city in the Bible Belt. By reading those words you probably have some idea of the perspective that’s colored much of my experience into adult life – socioeconomic privilege, American male […]
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