The Things We Do For Love The summer before we married, Grayson spent a couple of months working for a road construction crew in Oklahoma. It was a desperate yet romantic act on his part to save for an engagement ring. At the same time, I was working my only ever corporate job, traveling […]

A Move of Great Proportions This past week my family moved from Milwaukee, where my husband and I met, fell in love, married, and had two beautiful boys, to Kansas City– a strange and confusing land we do not know. My husband, Grayson, was offered an internship with a mission organization we have grown to […]

Watch Out For Those Bratwurst Bones….   Did you know that bratwursts have bones? This was some new information I stumbled upon as I sat out on the patio of the Marshall family. I was sipping a mug of coffee and hanging out with 7-year-old Aiden and five-year-old Charlie. Their mom, Becky, was inside tending […]

Into the Whole Food Kitchen of the Gruetzmacher Family If you haven’t yet read part 1 of the Gruetzmacher’s story, be sure to head there first and get to know Eric, Amy, and their three young boys. With a simple desire to better the health of her family, and in light of a recent diagnosis […]

Finding Inspiration at the Playground A few weeks back I took the boys on a walk. We stopped at our produce stand to pick up some vegetables for dinner. Zeke enjoys this stop as Les, our produce man, always grabs some grapes as he sees us approaching and gives them to Zeke to snack on […]

Nourishing Their Bodies We began eating real food shortly after the birth of our first son. He turned our world upside down. With his arrival came a whole new realm of things to consider. How will we raise this tiny being? We began looking at our lives with much more scrutiny. One of the areas […]