Melissa
Melissa is a Central Ohio native who’s been living in Columbus for the past decade. After graduating from Miami University and living in Boston for a few years, she’s happy to call the capital city of Columbus her home. Melissa’s currently a stay at home mom to Emily and Thomas who are four and one year old. When Melissa’s not chasing around her kids and changing diapers, she loves to cook, decorate her home, try out local restaurants, read a good book and those first sips of her morning coffee! She's recently hopped on the decluttering bandwagon and is sharing her journey on her insta-blog at @everyday.simple.mom.
When It’s Too Hot to Play Outside: Summer Indoor Activities
I always welcome the start of summer and the ability to get outside more with my kids! However, once it gets to July and August, it's sadly sometimes a little too hot to get...
Cooking with Kids: Snack Time
This post is part of a series about cooking with kids. One of my goals this year is to get my kids into the kitchen to help me more often and I'm sharing our...
5 To Try: Columbus Cookies
Who doesn't love cookies?
We have so many great bakeries here in Columbus and in the past few months, my kids and I have been doing a cookie tour and finding which ones have our...
5 Things to Make with Ripe Bananas
As you probably know, a kid's food preferences can change quickly. One week they love something and the next week, they can't stand it.
This is usually how it goes with bananas at our house....
My Love/Hate Relationship with Grocery Pick-Up
I've got a question for you! Do you do grocery store pick-up, or do you actually go into the store to do your shopping?
I've been doing grocery pick-up for my large, weekly shopping order...
My Dinner Plan When I Don’t Want to Cook
If you're like me, there comes a time every once in a while, where you just can't bring yourself to cook another week of dinners. You just can't come up with another dinner plan...
5 Cute Holiday Reads
I love to read and during the holidays there's really nothing better to me than a cute holiday romance! Here are 5 of my favorite holiday reads, which you might enjoy this holiday season...
Cooking with Kids: Lunch
This is the second post in my series about cooking with kids. If you missed it, you can read my first post about breakfast right here! Today, I'm talking about lunch! If your kids...
My Costco Top 10
Are you a Costco Member? My husband and I originally joined several years to save money on diapers, but in the years since we've found so many other products we love as well!
We only...
Wendy’s Says “Thank You” to Parents with a Breakfast Giveaway
Thank you to our partners at Wendy's for sponsoring this post and allowing us to try several of their delicious breakfast items! As always, all opinions that follow are those of the author.
If you're...