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sometimes it all starts with a blackberry bush and sometimes it all ends with one too.  there have been so many seasons where gardening has been my anchor and this year it provided me with an amazing perspective. i am so thankful that through your pruning and growing, we get to be together. so let's roll up our sleeves and do the dirty work together. life as it should be.  xoxo  kb. 

anywhere she is an anointed space. ikwb family favorite laney crowder sat with me one sunny afternoon in nashville to talk all things heartfelt harvested and riding the flow of summer. visionary OGs and almost birthday twins makes laney matter a little extra to my heart plus she was in the delivery room with me and that's a story all itself. the laughs, the banter, the golden nuggets of wisdom are cherished and abundant. pull up a chair and sit with us as we live now in our good old days, together.  xoxo kb. 

in the simplification there is a melting away of old and welcoming new that cannot be done ((at least in my experience)) in the sweet chaos of the school season. so calm, unplugged, sunscreen scented, watermelon stained days are the mood. cozy up with us inside the rest of our sandlot summer.   i love you too much. forever.  kb

it's like THE easiest to get stuck in day to day, the same schedule, the circumstances, the looming feelings of not enough. not enough time, not enough money, not enough muscle, the list can go on BUT what if for a moment it stopped? what if we take to time to really dream again. fall in love, dream like a kid again. lidless life is a moment in time that i have resurrected bc i miss a wide open world and mind. and if you do too, this little pep rally is just for you. i love you. near or far. too much. forever. xoxo kb.

the new decision. what if we just decide? decide to be reminded of what we love and who we are. decide to make the change because we can. yep. maybe it is that easy. we are just a decided heart away from small or big shifts. newness. the promise and hope of a future. all things we can know as truth. all things easier to see with a post easter lens.  i love you. new. old. every in between. too much. forever. xoxo kb. 

whew. not my typical holy week tribute but some real honesty and moments of clarity. our go to "sorry we can't, it's holy week" has been replaced. this holy week feels different. abundant? yes. full? completely. being the hands and feet of Jesus in noisy, but really beautifully chaotic, times. all the goodness. all at once. all the emotions. all at once. death. promise. life again. perhaps a holy yes is exactly what the answer should be. i love you. way too much. forever. happiest holy week my friends. xoxo kb. 

a note to all my warrior hearts ::: i love you. today i am holding everything. sometimes i need a moment to hold what floats to the top and detangle the rest later. tangible ways to move my tired, grieving, even joyful mind in a forward motion. slow and steady. love and protected. thanks for sitting in the sorting. i am spoiled to have you xoxo. kb. 

you asked, i answered. yikes. a lot you didn't see coming… thanks for loving me and being so all in. xoxo. kb. 

you asked, i answered. yikes. a lot you didn't see coming… thanks for loving me and being so all in. xoxo. kb. 

you asked, i answered. yikes. a lot you didn't see coming… thanks for loving me and being so all in.  part two coming soon cause you asked so much and i want to tell you everythingggg.  xoxo. kb. 

march roars in like a lion … and don't i know that life! pumpkin rolls out but the best "what ifs" stay. as we launch into a spring refresh in home, heart, closet, and temps let's pause for the importance of exiting our seasons like a lamb. i love you. too much. forever.  xoxo. kb.

what if… girl. what if you are actually good at it? yes that. anything you haven't tried or thought "maybe someday"… i think it's time. time for the good old college try. time for the measuring cups and the printed recipes. time for substack or the LLC. whatever has been planted in your perfectly imperfect heart deserves a shot. so well the depth of pumpkin roll seems a little frosted in comparison, it turns out the key to knowing yourself is just a little self love sugar sometimes. i love you, you talented thing you! give it a try! what if you are actually good at this?  xoxo  kb. 

a little love note from me to you in between official seasons.    i love you too much. forever. xoxo kb

my anchored thought for the very first month of a new year.  i have always thought of january as calm. january is for sorting. for quiet. for reorganizing. for purging. physically and mentally. for clarity and peace. i stopped making my resolutions or words a must by january because i just love shifting and sitting. so if it's helpful, i'm passing along my •unrush january• method. you have the whole month to get cozy with yourself and let what will float, float. to decide what this year feels like. what speaks to you and through you. truthfully though i do love just knowing the year has started. a start and freshness. but there is a melting away of old and welcoming new that cannot be done ((at least in my experience)) in the sweet chaos of the holiday season. so calm, disheveled january is the mood. it will pull itself together just like us. i pray that feeling washes over you and you feel your shoulders relax a bit. it's january. it's a world time out, a self plug in. 

… a gentle way to reflect. we don't need to tidy trees, homes, kitchens, AND new year resolutions all at once. that's unfair and you've earned way more than to be limited in all your limitlessness. let's just take some minutes during all the activities and the movement of the final two weeks of the year to note what worked and what didn't. let's give ourselves grace and room to breathe and then, sometime towards the top of january when things settle, we can aim. we can collect and refocus. we can slowly listen to the pace of our hearts and the needing of our wildest dreams. i am so thankful to have done so much time along side you this year. we are building something so special… a true Homecoming. i love you. too much. forever. xoxo kb.