This post is sponsored by Kidpik.

If there’s anything 2020 calls for, it’s delight and convenience, especially for moms who are managing kids at home while also working, supervising school and looking for light at the end of this tunnel. A box full of treasures that lands at your door so that you don’t have to go out and shop for your kids’ fall wardrobes falls right in line with delight and convenience, and that delight was fully evident when my kids opened their kidpik subscription boxes this month and Nella twirled around the living room with every piece of clothing she pulled out.

Have you tried any clothing subscription boxes yet? I entered into the clothing subscription world last year for myself and love it. But shopping for kids can be even tougher, especially when you have multiple kids, all with different style preferences.

We tried kidpik, the leading fashion subscription box service for girls ages 3-14–and now they have boys’ clothes too! Kidpik is perfect for 2020–a safe and easy way to shop for your kids by bringing the store to your front door–and it’s super affordable.

Here’s how it works: You take a fun 3-minute style quiz sharing your child’s preferences in terms of style and fit. Kidpik’s seasoned stylists then get to work personalizing amazing outfits based on your kid’s unique sense of style. Each subscription box ships with 7 coordinated items, including shoes, that create a minimum of 3 head-to-toe outfits when you mix and match.

Pay only for what you keep! You have 7 days to try on your new items in your home and send back anything you choose not to keep in a pre-paid return envelope. Shipping, returns and exchanges are free! The average box is $95 when you “keep all” (approximately $13,50/item), and you can control the frequency of the delivery (members can choose a box delivered every 1, 2 or 3 months).

Nella LOVED the fur jean jacket in her box…

…and we all love Dash’s new high tops.

This month, kidpik is also re-launching their #pikkindness campaign, promoting kindness in the classroom and beyond. All you have to do is submit your kid’s (or their friend’s) random act of kindness by posting to Instagram with the hashtag #pikkindness or fill out their super easy form recounting their good deed and they’ll be automatically entered to win a free kidpik fashion box (sizes 4-16). The kidpik team will draw 2 winners each month!

Yellow is always our color.

If you’d like to try a kidpik box, use code KELLE50 to receive 50% off your first subscription box (discount applies if you keep all). Offer valid until 10/31.

Well hello there, friends. It’s officially the first day of Fall. While that means really nothing seasonally different here in Florida, it brings with it a much needed shift in mentality. We are hanging on for all the shifts we can get this year, and this fall one comes with simple delights independent of all that’s happening in the world. We still get chili & cornbread movie nights, cozy socks, mum displays in Trader Joes, the thrill of discovering the best apple crisp recipe ever and the beginning of the last three chapters of a long year—the “-ber months,” my favorite.

As promised, a new fall bucket list for you. I took a break from the summer one this year, and I’m so ready to initiate this new season by hanging a crisp new list on our wall, full of invitations to delights. It’s COVID friendly 😉 — all items you can check off safely with your families, friends or alone in your cozy little house.

You can download your own copy to print here. It’s formatted as a jpeg; so if you want to enlarge it, you can send the file as is to any photo printing lab (Walgreens will print it in an hour) and have it printed as a 16×20.

I’m also sharing my fall playlist here. (You can copy the Spotify the playlist here or play the songs right from this post.) There’s a little bit of old school jazz, a few classic crooners, some Indie folk songs. Picture candlelit dinners, sitting around a bonfire, road tripping in the mountains, touring an apple orchard, sipping wine in your kitchen while you bake…all the cozy fall feels.

One more thing—I’ve teamed up with two of my dear friends, Claire Bidwell Smith and Tamara Taggart to try something new and fun. We are bringing you Covid Confidential, a month-long pandemic social club intended to create a judgment-free place where we can connect and talk about the real things we are going through right now. You’ll laugh, have some fun and feel seen and heard. We were not meant to go through this alone. You can find more info here.

Happy Fall. Xo

This post is sponsored by Stonyfield.

It’s official. We’re back to school, navigating the first days of online home school which is kind of like learning to ride a bike except 50 times harder. Everyone is showing up, teachers are pouring their hearts into this mess, and tech support is hustling to smooth out the glitches. We know and expect that there’re a lot of things that won’t run as smoothly as normal, and because of that, the routines in our life that haven’t changed are even more important. We cling to brain breaks and lunches–our daily solids during this interesting year.

Even though we’re learning at home, we are handling the day as much like a regular school day as possible.
A few school routines we’re keeping to cling to some normalcy:

Favorite School Lunch Treats

Packing lunches is one morning task I’m definitely happy to give up right now, a small silver lining to this situation. But the kids still love picking out special snacks for school lunches, so we’re stocking our pantry and refrigerator with their favorites to keep school lunches special. One of our favorite school lunch snacks has always been Stonyfield yogurt.

We love their yogurt pouches (we had our cooler packed with them on our road trip) and their yogurt smoothie drinks.

The smoothie drinks are convenient for quick pick-me-ups during school and, like all Stonyfield yogurt products, are made from organic milk sourced from small farms and free of toxic persistent pesticides.

They also happen to be delicious, and the perfect sized “shot” for a little energy boost.

We’ve found the kids’ Stonyfield product containers can be repurposed in so many fun ways for crafts, so we wash and save a lot of ours. Our latest repurpose? We sprayed the smoothie cups with chalk paint and then dipped them in black craft paint to make these cute bud vases:

Other routines we’re keeping to make school at home special this year:

Laying Our Clothes Out
We may be attending school in the dining room, but we’re still dressing for the day. The kids lay out their clothes at night for a smooth morning routine the next day, and we did our back to school shopping with the same enthusiasm we put into first day of school outfits for in-person school. It helps set the tone for productivity.

Creative Socializing
The hardest part about this school years is the lack of socializing like we are used to–free, fun play; hugs; crowds of kids on the playground at recess. We are working really hard to safely give our kids a sense of community and maintain their friendships. That might mean ice cream meet-ups after school (finishing our first day definitely deserved this!), socially distanced races in the park or, for Lainey, Face Timing with friends who share her online classes while they are in front of their computers learning.

We got this!

While you’re prepping for your kids’ first day or navigating the first weeks of 2020 learning, you can stock up on your favorite Stonyfield yogurt snacks by finding a store near you that carries them. If you need a good art project, you can find other ways we’ve repurposed our Stonyfield containers here and here.