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…

April 13, 2025

💩 The Great “Slow” Clean Out: A Poop Story I’ll Never Forget

Let’s talk about poop. More specifically, let’s talk about chronic constipation, the lies doctors tell about “slow clean outs”, and how I ended up elbows-deep in the…
April 13, 2025

👋 Meet Michelle — The Heart Behind Twins, Tenders, and Teaching

Hi, I’m Michelle — a former public school teacher, now a full-time homeschool mom navigating life with twin boys, one with autism and one with severe…
April 13, 2025

🐶 From One Pet to a Backyard Zoo: How We Accidentally Built a Homestead

So let me start by saying… 13 years ago my husband and I agreed to be a one-pet household. Just one dog. Simple, clean, manageable. Fast…
April 12, 2025

When One Baby Became Two: Our Wild Start to Twin Parenthood

Right before my husband and I got married in 2017, we received some hard news — pregnancy would be life-threatening for both me and a…