Hi! I’m Janie!

Let’s find some joy in the parenting trenches.

I’m a stay-at-home mom to 4 kids, and I spend my days fighting through the pressure to be thin, happy, have the perfect house and the perfect life. Here’s the reality.

Life isn’t perfect.

But we can choose to find joy every day.

For 10 years, I worked as a TV news reporter, wearing false eyelashes, dresses and high heels. There was enormous pressure to be fit, beautiful, young and intelligent. Today, I stay home with my 3 active boys and little girl, I haven’t showered since last week, and let’s be honest, the only thing I can speak eloquently about is how to make a pizza quesadilla.

I’m not perfect, and that’s okay.

I don’t have my ideal body, I don’t have ideal kids and most of my mothering days are far from idea. But I am living my ideal life. Happy and messy; loud and loving; treasuring, and treasured by, the people who matter.