The road to finding our perfect RV has been a long journey. Between lack of knowledge in the beginning and life changes we have explored many of the available options. To be honest, we have only…
Life Pre-Pandemic to One Year Later
Life pre-pandemic to one year later and learning to cope with the reality that so much has changed. In looking back to a little over a year ago we were returning from the NAMM show in…
Don’t Let Live Events Go Dark
Don’t let live events go dark!! When COVID hit in March, our work season was just about to begin. We were literally three days from starting our 2020 work season with a calendar full of events…
The Choice is Yours
The choice is yours. It really is. I started back to college to pursue my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in Marketing in May. As I was watching one of the required videos there was a quote that caught…
What is A Diet Anyway?
What is a diet anyway? Is it a noun, is it a verb? This is a topic I have thought about often. Regardless of what it “is”, it can dictate what or how we eat. I…
The Studio Daily-Evolving for the Times
The Studio Daily is a side project that we started at the beginning of the year. We started it as an Instagram to invite studio owners to share their spaces with others from around the world….
Its Time to Find Balance In Everyday Life
It’s time to find balance in everyday life. Blogging was something I had wanted to try for quite a few years, but always gave up when I couldn’t find a name for it. It wasn’t until…
Is it NAMM or A Vacation
Is it NAMM or a vacation, well let’s be honest it is a workation. What is a workation you ask? It is exactly what it sounds like, a working vacation. Vacations are hard for us to…
Hobby Turned Side Hustle
A hobby turned side hustle is a common occurrence, occasionally this endeavor becomes more than initially imagined. Often times people only envision the extra income when they decide to turn their hobby into a small business….
The Craziness of the Holiday Season
With the craziness of the holiday season, the opportunity to post here has been buried. In addition to spending time with our family for the holidays, we took on some home projects right before Thanksgiving. At…
Fall into Action
Fall is a season of change. With the warmer days and cooler nights, we are able to prepare for what winter may bring. As the trees change color giving us one last show of beauty, the…
Balance in the Garden
Finding the Balance Finding balance in the garden is important to have a successful growing season. When I first started gardening my plan was..well I had no plan. A little of this and a little of…
Summer’s in Full Swing
Yikes, I have been a little MIA around here lately. It must be summer. Anyway, I decided I would take a break from the day to day of our summer craziness and try to do a…
Safer Alternative to Chemical Weed Sprays
With all of the negative media regarding weed sprays its time to find a safer alternative to chemical weed sprays. The beauty of growing your own fruits and vegetables is taking control of what goes into…
LastSquatch!
The last 17 years Sasquatch Music Festival has been marked on the calendar and embedded in our minds. While most people see Memorial Day as a holiday to go camping, spend time with friends and family or…
Veggie Mart
Once we hit May it is the warning that it is time to get busy getting ready for summer. For us in the event industry summer becomes very busy with outdoor concerts and festival season. Which…
Signs of Spring
Growing up in Portland spring always meant rain followed by more rain and summer always seemed to come late, with the exception of a summer teaser right near the end of the school year which always…
Chasing Tech
I have often stated that my new year begins in May. I finally have all my federal tax returns behind me, my first quarter payroll and trucking reports are done and submitted and I finally feel…
One Green Thing
On a whim I changed up my morning workout and went for the treadmill and decided to turn on The Today Show. One of the topics during my 30-minute workout was in regards to Earth Week….
Working from Home
I have learned over the years that self-employment and working from home can occasionally create some misconceptions from the 9-5 world. While raising my kids in public school I was able to volunteer and be in…
What about Real Life Balanced
Well now the I have covered who I am, I will share a little more about what I intend to do on this blog. With being a mom, wife, business owner and daughter there have been…
Closure
Today gives me some closure to the three most difficult years of my life. It all began in November of 2015 when we unexpectedly lost my mother. She and I were very close and always had…
When the Snow Must Go On
As Snowmageddon continues to impact the Pacific Northwest, it could become really easy to just hibernate like the animals do, however the show must go on. While in most cases the show does go on occasionally…
This Thing Called Work
So as it has been mentioned, we own an audio reinforcement company. We started our company in 1997 we bought our first piece of equipment when our second daughter was only a month and a half…
My Family
Well as mentioned in my about me post, I am a daughter, sister, wife and mother. To begin, I was fortunate to be raised in a home with both of my parents and my one sister….
Snowmageddon 2019
Well although later than normal, winter has hit the Pacific Northwest. We usually get a little dusting of snow annually and occasionally get a decent amount. Last week we started getting our dusting on Monday then…
Who Am I
Welcome to my blog Real Life Balanced. As mentioned in my About Me page, I am a wife, mom, and business owner (multiple business’ actually), in addition to being.a daughter and sister. I have been married…