Twins Tenders and Teaching

✨ Life on the homestead means learning to get creative — sometimes that even includes cooking one-handed.

I’ve been craving warm, soft gluten-free flour tortillas (the kind you can actually bend without them crumbling into sad cracker chips). Enter the Una Casa Tortilla Press. 🙌 This little gadget made rolling and pressing tortillas so much easier, even while I was operating with only one hand. Honestly, it’s…
Surgery Update: I Survived, Barely… and My Kids Are Still Alive Too 🎉

So I had surgery last Monday, and we started off strong with… the OR breaking. Yep. The operating room literally said, “Not today, Satan,” and shut down. So we had to relocate hospitals like a medical field trip no one signed up for. Since we had no clue what recovery…

August 23, 2025

💜 Parenting in the Parking Lot

Sometimes parenting a neurodivergent kid looks like this—sitting on the curb in the middle of a parking lot, offering quiet support while a storm of…
August 22, 2025

When the Past Knocks on Your Door

Do you remember being a kid and basically running your entire neighborhood like you were in charge of the HOA? You’d hop on your bike,…
August 20, 2025

Farm Chores… With a Passenger 🐐

Farm chores just got a little fancier — finally got myself a John Deere tractor/mower so I don’t have to trek up and down the…
August 19, 2025

Delicious Gluten Free Tortilla Recipe

Ingredients (makes about 8 medium tortillas): • 2 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour blend (with xanthan gum included — if not, add 1 tsp xanthan gum)…

Hi, I’m Michelle — recovering teacher, twin wrangler, and the author of all the honest chaos you’ll find here.