Our Indiana Adventure: About Us

This is my family:

About my blog:

My blog is about my life as a mom. It's about fun activities to do with little kids, raising kids (typical and differently-abled), raising food--mostly organic and permaculture, cooking, and random hacks for around the house. We also enjoy traveling and spending time as a family!

I hope that my blog gives you some ideas or encourage on our own journey of parenthood or gardening or where ever life is taking you! I actually started this blog a few years ago and then decided to start a gardening plus lifestyle themed blog and decided to revive this one because I liked the content.

Here is a bit about why I want to garden.

About me:

I'm born and raised outside of Indianapolis. My mom kept a garden when I was a child. She mostly grew strawberries, raspberries, tomatoes and lots of herbs. I have fond memories of cutting snips of herbs and making "herb tea". I also really enjoyed helping in the garden and helping to cook. I was preparing whole meals for my family from the time I was 10.

Helping in the kitchen circa 1990

My husband and I were married in December 2006. We lived in Chicago for about 10 years. But after our first child was born, we decided to move back to Indiana. I loved living in Chicago in my 20's and early 30's, but I'm enjoying being back in Indiana! I'm fortunate enough to still work for the same company that I did while in Chicago, but now remotely and at 75%. I work in software management. I also still code. So, yes, I am a nerd!

My husband and I circa 2008

We have two young boys who I am calling Tomato and Blueberry on this blog. As of March 2019 when I am updaing this "About Us" page...Tomato will be 5 in May and Little Blueberry is 2. Those aren't their actual names. I'm just not using their real names.