Family life, vacations, faith, adoption, Down syndrome awareness, and everything that makes the Longstreth family who we are. New here? Meet Jon — his story, his seasons, and what we’ve learned raising a child with Down syndrome.
My beautiful daughter graduated college today, and my mama cup is overflowing. Hannah walked across that stage with her bachelor’s degree, and I sat there in the audience watching the little girl who made me a mama become the woman she’s been working so hard to be. She earned every bit of this. We are…
Cereal for dinner is officially a legitimate meal choice, and I have the plumbing bill to prove it. Last week our plumber was at the house all afternoon with the water turned off, and by the time he finished and packed up, there was water in every place you do not want water to be…
Mother’s Day is coming up fast, and if your mama loves to cook, I have 10 Mother’s Day gifts for moms who love to cook that she will actually be genuinely excited about — because every single one of them lives in my own kitchen right now. Not a list of things I researched. Things…
This $200 grocery haul is what a real week of feeding a family of seven actually looks like — two orders, two stores, and absolutely zero shame about the Little Debbie Nutty Buddies. I split the run between Amazon Fresh for produce (they do really good fresh produce in my area) and Walmart for everything…
This is my kitchen reset moment, y’all. After a couple days of real mom life — sourdough baking, cooking for a crowd, kids coming and going — my kitchen looked like a disaster zone. And honestly? I barely noticed. That’s just what real life looks like around here sometimes, and I think it’s important that…
This is Kira’s adoption story, and tiny but mighty does not even begin to cover it. Our second daughter came to us when she was just three weeks old — with one of the hardest starts a baby can have — and from that very first day, she has been one of the most extraordinary…
Breakfast for dinner for my Thursday night crowd is one of my favorite things to pull off, y’all. Our college girls come over every Thursday, and they bring their friends with them — and the friends bring friends — and before I know it, I am feeding a whole lot of people who just came…
The school fundraiser dinner I auctioned off this year showed up at the winning family’s door hot, ready to eat, and packed with love — a full Italian night I made from scratch for a family I’ve never even cooked for before. This is my second year doing it, and I don’t think I’ll ever…
It was one of those all-day errand runs — and I am not going to pretend I did not love every single minute of it. Haircut first, then picking up Jon, then running Hannah to her hair appointment, a completely unavoidable Publix stop, and lunch at the most perfect little Cuban restaurant in Tampa. This…
Jon loves haircut day more than almost anything else in this world. The countdown starts days before the appointment. He wakes up ready. He is the first one out the door. Somewhere along the way, a trip to Miss Alicia’s chair became one of his favorite days of the month — and watching him light…
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