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…

June 5, 2025

When You’re the Grown-Up and Still Don’t Have It Together

💬 Real Talk: I’m the Grown-Up… Supposedly So apparently, I’m the grown-up now. Which is funny because I had a cookie for breakfast, cried over…
June 3, 2025

Moving Mayhem: Neurodivergent Twins, One-Handed Packing, and That One McDonald’s Toy

We’re moving. And no, I don’t want to talk about it.Unless you’re bringing snacks and muscle. Preferably both. Right now, my life is a chaotic…
May 22, 2025

I Wrote a Children’s Book in the Middle of a Meltdown… or Three

No, I didn’t escape to a cozy cabin in the woods to write this book. I wrote it with one functional hand, while mediating twin…
May 21, 2025

Boxes, Bandaids, and Big Dreams: We’re On the Move 🏡

Here’s the thing about moving: it always sounds like a fresh start and a beautiful adventure… until you’re knee-deep in cardboard chaos, your children are emotionally unraveling…

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