Family life, vacations, faith, adoption, Down syndrome awareness, and everything that makes the Longstreth family who we are
POV: Dustin and Eddie think the Converse bag is theirs now — and honestly, they’re not wrong. We went to the outlet mall over spring break and somehow managed to buy 10 pairs of Converse shoes for our family of 7 for just $259 total. That’s a win any day of the week. But the…
POV Fast Food Therapy: you just spent three weeks nurturing two sourdough starters from scratch, adjusting ratios, buying counter warmers, moving them to the oven with the light on, cheering them on every single day — and then you lose them both anyway. Willy and Nilly are gone, I have accepted it, and today —…
Olivia turns 13 today, and this mama is equal parts overjoyed and not quite ready for it. Our baby girl — our youngest, our only biological child, the one who rounds out this wild and wonderful family of seven — is officially a teenager. I don’t know how that happened, but here we are. She…
Buddy Baseball hits just keep on coming, and Jon is absolutely on fire this season. Yesterday was such a special morning watching this kid step up to the plate with all the confidence in the world — tapping the plate with his bat, swinging it back and forth a few times to get ready, and…
Hey y’all — Dustin has officially discovered screen time, and I am not sure what to do about it. If you’ve been following along, you know that POV: Dustin Discovers Screen Time is not even a little bit surprising given this cat’s personality. He has always had big opinions about everything in this house. Baskets,…
Raising Cane’s review from a family of 7 — and yes, most of us were true first-timers! Our college girls had apparently already discovered Raising Cane’s on their own (as college kids do), but for the rest of us this was a brand new experience. We were out for spring break, all seven of us…
POV Converse store didn’t see us coming — and honestly, neither did my wallet. 😂 We were out doing some spring break outlet mall shopping when we walked into the Converse store and discovered they were running a 50% off sale on almost everything in the store. Now, our kids know the rule: clearance aisle…
Thrifting in St. Petersburg was exactly the kind of spring break adventure this family needed! Me and my two favorite sidekicks — Hannah and Jon — hit some thrift stores we had never discovered before, and let me tell you, it did not disappoint. There is nothing quite like the thrill of the find. That…
I have exciting news — and I’m telling YOU first. StephanieCooksForACrowd.com is officially live, and I could not be more thrilled to share it with you. This little corner of the internet is going to have everything — all my recipes in an easy format you can download or print, all my cooking videos, Tuesday…
There are moments in a mama’s life that stop you in your tracks — like when your college kids come home for spring break and all five of your babies are finally under one roof again. This is one of them. All my babies are under one roof tonight and I could not be more…
