Brittney Rutherford
Brittney and her husband, Tyler, have been married for 10 years and live in Ames. Their two sons, Beckett (5) and Hudson (3), keep them on their toes with constant wrestling, dinosaur-related questions and daily inquiries as to when their next trip to get ice cream will be.
Brittney works full time in marketing and communications. She likes to bike (the kind with pedals), visit family, hang out with friends, be in or on water - and always has good coffee and red wine on hand.
Our Extra “Curriculum”
My husband and I are working full time from home while our eight and five-year-old boys invent new ways to annoy each other. Learning their letters, checking in with their (amazing!) teachers and reading...
Focusing on Faith and Family in Uncertain Times
The fast-moving events of the past several weeks involving coronavirus (COVID-19) have left us all shaken in one way or another. We’re leaning hard on faith and family (virtually, of course, with extended family).
If...
9 Ideas to Get Through the Last Weeks of Winter
How cold is too cold to send the kids outside? Tell me I'm not the only one who has Googled this!
After 34 years of living here, I know winter happens. We embrace it with...
Love Life After kids
How's your love life going? That's a weird question if you're married.
You're knee-deep in laundry. It's 10 p.m. and you forgot your preschooler needs to take snacks tomorrow. Your second grader wants home lunch...
Advice from a boy mom: your kids are fine
I'm a boy mom.
As someone who hates labels, I've finally accepted this one.
All kids test your patience. Boys seem to do it ways that are loud and involve jumping off furniture. They don't have...
3 Easy Soup Recipes
With the hustle and bustle of the holidays, it’s nice to have a few go-to soup recipes you can set and forget. A slow cooker of easy soup is perfect for the days between...
Why We Always Get a Real Christmas Tree
If our family had a spirit animal, it would be Clark Griswold. Real trees – the kind you go to a tree farm and cut down - have been part of Christmas for as...
Real Life Parenting
Has the Instagram scroll ever made you feel like you don’t quite measure up? How does she look so good? Why is her house always clean? That dinner looks amazing. How is her kid...
What I learned going from 1 to 2 kids
Are you taking the leap from one to 2 kids? You won’t regret it, but it might surprise you!
Our boys are seven and four. We’re in a different stage of parenting that doesn’t involve...
RAGBRAI, Give It a Try!
“Fresh squeezed lemonade! Fresh squeezed lemonade!” I can vividly remember my seven-year-old self hollering those words on top of our neighbor’s barn as thousands of RAGBRAI riders rolled down old Highway 20.
It was the...