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  • "Where does your husband work?" ...Oooh. That's a complicated one.⠀ .⠀ I've always had a hard time trying to explain just what the heck we are doing when it comes to our work/life situation. My IG feed is full of San Francisco pics, yet we're homebased in Omaha, Nebraska. Yep, it's confusing!⠀ .⠀ The short version is Matt DOES work in San Francisco. Kind of. While our home is in Omaha, Nebraska, and Matt works a majority of the time from home, every other week or so, he travels off to his "struction site" (as Evelyn calls it) in San Francisco.⠀ .⠀ Naturally, we try to take advantange of a free place to stay and join him as much as possible. It's not always easy with 2 kids in tow, especially trying to keep structure and routine in their lives like preschool for Ev and physical therapy for Soph. Even after doing this whole thing for over 3 years now (holy heck!), we're still always adjusting our version of "normal".⠀ .⠀ Do you have an unusual work/life situation? I know we can't be alone?!⠀ .⠀ #SanFrancisco #AlwaysWelcome
  • Happy Birthday to the BEST. DAD. EVER! 🎉⠀ .⠀ Here's to the man who deals with 3 moody ladies all day and still does everything with a smile! We love you, Matthew! ⠀ .⠀ #DadLife #BlessYourHeart ❤️😄
  • Happy Friday friends! 🎉⠀ .⠀ Matt and I have our first legit date night tonight since I don’t even know how long and we're going to do all the things!⠀ .⠀ I'm talking shoes with a heel. A little perfume. Dinner AND drinks, and staying up past 10...oh, it's gonna get wild!⠀ .⠀ #datenight #wemaynevercomeback #kiddingnotkidding
  • Would you consider yourself a minimalist? 🤔⠀ .⠀ We're trying to get there, but we've still got a long way to go!⠀ .⠀ As we continue the work of getting rid of STUFF, guys...we have SO MUCH STUFF! And I wouldn't even consider ourselves to be the pack rat/hoarder types. Just typical 30-something’s who have accumulated so much STUFF after 10 years of adulting...⠀ .⠀ It's amazing how you become blind to your own things when you see them over and over and over again. Things I threw out this week include: 2 broken dining chairs, 2 bras that have never fit me 🙄, gobs and gobs of paper files🗂, a flat basketball🏀, a pile of questionable firewood🔥, and many many more ridiculous things I’m embarrassed to say we’ve held onto for this long. WHY, you ask? Who knows!⠀ .⠀ Guys, some of this stuff has been around for 10 YEARS. We've moved 6 times in that span. ONCE halfway across the country. That means we’ve moved some of this same old stuff from house to house 6 times, never once stopping to think, "hmmm... maybe it's time to let this STUFF go??" 🤦‍♀️⠀ .⠀ The more often we travel and the longer we travel, the more it really has changed our way of thinking and turned us towards minimalism. We've realized just how little we can live with, and how much simpler and more enjoyable life is when it fits into just a few suitcases. When you aren't cleaning and organizing and taking care of so much STUFF all the time, it's incredibly freeing!⠀ .⠀ Needless to say, we're still working on our STUFF. We've been living the American dream 🇺🇸 for too long, and now it's gotta go!⠀ .⠀ #livesimply #pursuewhatislovely
  • Those Golden Gate Bridge views 😍 -- they never get old!⠀ .⠀ We found another little "secret" spot for bridge views when we were back in SF a few weeks ago. This one was tucked away behind the Presidio Yacht Club, just beyond the @bayareadiscoverymuseum. Matt thought we'd just "see where this road goes". 😄 I'm so glad he did!⠀ .⠀ My sisters came out SF on this latest trip and we had a chance to head out kid-free and bike the Golden Gate Bridge! It was definitely the highlight of the trip, but was not without some very careful logistical planning to make it go off without a hitch!⠀ .⠀ So I've put together a new post #ontheblog today all about how to bike the Golden Gate! From bike rentals to routes, ferries, and more - it has everything you could possibly need to plan your adventure! ⠀ .⠀ #linkinbio👆
  • Queen of the World! 🙌🏻👑⠀ .⠀ #GoldenGateViews #KidsLearnHere
  • We made it! 6 MONTHS! 🎉⠀ .⠀ It's crazy how fast, yet slow, these past 6 months have gone. But we made it, and Sophie now joins the ranks of the 1% of children diagnosed with HPE to reach this milestone! ⠀ .⠀ Today #ontheblog, I'm sharing an update on Sophie's progress and how we're feeling now, nearly 10 months after that awful day when we received her diagnosis. 💔 [#linkinbio👆]⠀ .⠀ #MiracleBaby #Holoprosencephaly #WeHaveHoPE⠀
  • Double tap if anyone else is raising a #wildchild #threenager! 🙇‍♀️⠀ .⠀ Evelyn, some day I'll appreciate your risk-taker, boss lady mentality. 💪🏻 But right now, you're giving me some serious gray hairs!⠀ .⠀ #littlewomenwhoexplore #kidslearnhere⠀

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