Iced Caramel Macchiato If there's one thing I'm truly committed to in life, it's a delicious espresso drink. While I spend my entire day avoiding food preparation, I will spend an hour making the perfect coffee drink (like an iced caramel macchiato), especially if I'm making it for someone else. The difficulty lies in making coffeehouse quality espresso at home. I completely REJECT the suggestion that floats around Pinterest on a daily basis that "strongly brewed" drip coffee can replace real espresso. Hog wash. So I resigned myself to the next best thing to properly brewed espresso shots: my iced latte recipe using cold-brewed coffee Keep Reading

The end of school and the beginning of summer is just around the corner for the Pacific Northwest and while this year is WEIRD, there is still a transition that will come with school work being behind us. Moving into the lazier days of summer may feel different than usual, but there will still be some sort of transition. I know that putting a little bit of work into planning out my family's summer routine before we're a few weeks in gets all of us headed in the right direction. A couple of years back, I started setting up simple systems to keep my house and people loosely organized which increased the chances of us going out and doing awesome Keep Reading