by Brooke Selb | Oct 19, 2018 | Family, Mom Life, Postpartum Health, William, Zoey
This post contains affiliate links. I appreciate your support! The day Zoey turned three months old, I remember feeling a distinctive change. It was as if new air came into our life as we emerged from the newborn fog. William turning three months old has felt exactly...
by Brooke Selb | Oct 8, 2018 | Colorado, Family, Family Activities, Mom Life, Movement Activities for Kids, Screen Free Activities
This post contains affiliate links. I appreciate your support! What a whirlwind the past two and a half weeks have been! From getting caught up at work, getting the kids adjusted at daycare, and enjoying our evenings together, I feel like the time has gone by in a...
by Brooke Selb | Sep 19, 2018 | Family, Health for Moms, Health Time Management, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Mom Life, Postpartum Health, Teaching
8 ways to make going back to work after baby easier. Well, it’s here. After four months at home running around with Zoey and loving on our newborn William, I headed back to work today. It was seriously hard to leave the kids this morning, especially as Zoey threw a...
by Brooke Selb | Sep 3, 2018 | Health Time Management, Make Ahead Meals, Meal Planning, Meal Prepping, Mom Life, Nutrition, Simple Meal Plans
Before we became a family of three, I used to spend half a Sunday in the kitchen cooking. I would spend a few hours throughout the week researching new recipes to make for the upcoming week. Then, I would meal prep almost every breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and...
by Brooke Selb | Aug 16, 2018 | Exercise, Health & Fitness Challenges, Health Coaching, Personal Training, Workout Plans, Workouts
It is officially the first week of the school year here in Colorado and I cannot believe how fast the summer has gone! Even though I am still on maternity leave, the start of the school year always marks the beginning of fall for me. With Cross Country season, a few...
by Brooke Selb | Aug 9, 2018 | Gift Guide, Holidays, Teaching
This post contains affiliate links. I appreciate your support! Even though I am on maternity leave for the start of this school year, Colorado starts in early August as opposed to the East Coast post-Labor Day, I still feel the stress of my fellow teachers as they...
by Brooke Selb | Aug 2, 2018 | Family, Mom Life, Zoey
It has been a complete whirlwind around here the past five weeks since William arrived and I am over a month delayed in sharing the fact that we officially have a two year old! I remember when Zoey turned one during our RV trip and I breathed a huge sigh of relief...
by Brooke Selb | Jul 25, 2018 | Family
This post contains affiliate links. I appreciate your support. We have a son! William Gary Selb was born on Saturday, June 23 at 3:58pm. It is hard to believe that William has been part of our family for a month already and Rob and I continue to joke about how we...
by Brooke Selb | Jul 20, 2018 | Cardio Workouts, Exercise, Gym, Home Workouts, Lower Body / Leg Workouts, Strength Workouts, Total Body Workouts, Workouts, Workouts for Intermediate
This modified Murph at home workout that will leave you sweating, but feeling strong. You can easily do it with dumbbells. Start the timer and get moving! It is a happy Friday around here! I have been chatting with some of my coworkers and all of them are lamenting...
by Brooke Selb | Jul 13, 2018 | Core / Ab Workouts, Exercise, Gym, Home Workouts, Personal Training, Workouts, Workouts for Intermediate
This Friday workout blog post is coming to you from the rocking chair in our bedroom while Zoey is finally asleep in her room and William is asleep on my chest. There is something so relaxing about sleeping toddlers and baby cuddles and I am doing my best to slow down...
by Brooke Selb | Jul 9, 2018 | Exercise, Health Coaching, Personal Training, Running, Workout Plans, Workouts
Running has always been one of my passions from that first day of freshman year of high school cross country when I barely knew how to put one too-big foot in front of the other to now where I regularly run organized races from 5ks to full marathons. Rob and I even...
by Brooke Selb | Jul 6, 2018 | Dumbbells, Exercise, Home Workouts, Personal Training, Total Body Workouts, Workouts, Workouts for Beginners
Well hello and happy Friday! Has your week felt strange since it is kind of a holiday week, but at the same time not? I am not a huge fireworks person, but our neighborhood absolutely loves them and there have been pops, bangs, and crackles going on at night for the...