About me

The same things society says should matter to us are NOT what matter to humans, innately. Growing up, my stay at home mom had our home so well organized and full of love that I truly lived in bliss. It was always exceptionally cozy, with wonderful smells coming from the kitchen all day long. Our family enjoyed long dinners and conversations, we would lie on our deck and stare at the stars, and wax poetic about the universe and what lies beyond. I played on 13 wooded acres with a creek. I started driving very young, thanks to our John Deere Gator. It was about as good as it gets for a kid. We took LONG vacations to visit family to stay well connected and our home was the home that people all wanted to visit and never leave. Thus, our home was often full of company. The difference between me and my mom, is that I have always had to work a full time job, while trying to maintain the spirit of a warm and welcoming home where all wanted to spend time. I have had to juggle being the primary earner, an employee, a housekeeper, a full time mom, a wife, a full time cook, full time teacher and more. So, as a working mom, I have spent the past 14 years honing my abilities to manage a full time leadership career, own multiple businesses, try really hard to raise healthy and happy children who see me as a present parent; and keep a beautiful, clean, decluttered home, with good food made from love. This all based on the fairytale I grew up in and wanted to share with my family. This has been the hardest project of my life. It has been especially hard in recent years because, as families, as we have endured the pandemic, the device "destruction" and deterioration of family time and togetherness as we watch other "perfect" families who have it "all" share their lives publicly. We have endured a work to die not work to thrive culture and a society that tells us work is more important than family. We are watching our children and teens grow up too fast in social vacuums. They don't communicate in the human way anymore because we don't teach them anymore. We are in such a hurry to have AI and robots do everything for us so we can be less human and less in touch with our senses... and it's working. We are getting lazy. We are not writing on our own, we are living through "filters", and faux expectations of life. It's all moving at light speed, but it is my hope that from all of my life events, good and bad, that I have found ways for surviving and thriving through being a working parent who still wants a beautiful organized home and a happily dis-connected, but at the same time, joyfully reconnected, family. Whether you're a busy executive or a stay at home parent juggling all the plates, I believe my history and current social dynamic learnings will help you find more joy. When you're ready, send me the note, and let's talk about how you can recover from the chaos of work and family, refine your home and relationships through reductions, and find joy in each and every phase of your life moving forward. Your partner in thriving, Kelly (or KK)