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Katyrobinbird

Became a mama & kept adventuring…
🌲Inspiring families to explore nature
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🌎Vanlife | Sustainability | Unschooling
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29/05/2026

The broken treadmill in my office is now a cozy art fort, and I wish I would have made this space for her months ago…

She was always coming into my office but she didn’t actually need me to play with her. She just wanted to be near me. She wanted parallel play, like toddlers do, but now it more like parallel art creating. The problem was, she didn’t have a space that invited her in. So we made one. I believe we need this kind of time together just as much as we ever did.

We’re a neurodivergent household, so co-regulation is something I’ve had to lean heavily into as a parent, so I admit, this is my experience of motherhood. But what I’m learning is that even as my kids get older, now 7 and 10, they still want to just “be near” my husband and me. They want to parallel play with us, and creating space for that to happen as they get older is playing a huge role in maintaining that deep connection with our kids we cherish.

And it’s not just me who thinks this. Here is something cool I learned recently from an article on this very topic. Parallel play is a sign of secure relationships throughout childhood and adulthood. What makes it different from two people simply ignoring each other in the same room is availability. Knowing the other person is there. Knowing that if you need them, they’ll pay attention.

I can’t do this all the time, I wish I could, but I have my work, deadlines to meet, and I genuinely need uninterrupted focus. But she doesn’t need me to do it all the time. Just some of the time. And when I create space for it, she settles in and needs me less when she’s by my side in my office, working on her own artistic projects while I work on mine. Elliot is the same way. His favorite thing is just sitting next to you while he lego creates, or when he plays Minecraft and he can show you what he just built in realtime.

I’ve always wanted to make my office a really inviting cozy, comfortable space for me to do my storytelling, but I also want it for them, so they can join me to read, journal, and do art. In the meantime, I’ve got the treadmill fort. Any interior designers out there?

28/05/2026

It was the first real rainstorm after a long stretch of dry weather in Montana and I think I screamed “IT’S RAINING” at least 20 times 😆.

This is one of my favorite parts of childhood (and motherhood). The freedom to jump in puddles, sprint through the rain, stay outside longer than planned, and fully experience the changing seasons. All you really need is a good pair of rain boots.

Our new Mini Mucks from The Original Muck Boot Company arrived just in time. They’re lightweight enough (like they weigh nothing, it’s so cool) that the kids can actually run, climb, splash, and play hard in them, and muddy cleanup is basically just a quick spray-off at the end.

Pretty sure these are going to be our go-to van camping shoes this spring and summer too. Doug and I are wearing the Rainscape Chelsea Boots and loving those as well. Mine are pink 🥰

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15/05/2026

We’re reclaiming “weird.” Because weird is magical and we’d much rather move through life quirky, feeling fully ourselves, unmasking and free, than any other way.

I’ve spent much of my life happily perched somewhere on the weirdness spectrum, and I’ve known my daughter was right there with me from the day she was born, maybe even in utero. I knew there would be a day she’d tell me, “Someone called me weird.” That day came when she was 4 years old, at preschool, after she told the class she traveled to all the planets in the universe in her mind. I wanted her to know from a young age that being authentically you is safe and freeing… something that took me into my 40s to figure out. So we talked about it beyond what you see in this video clip.

She was proud telling me. We’d been talking about how amazing and magical weird is for years, we’d already reclaimed “weird” in our household.

We talked about how people use the word “weird” in lots of ways, often to point out differences they don’t understand, but that to us, it’s a word reflective of how much you are honoring your true rhythm.

Now that she’s older, she’s 7, and has witnessed the ways society uses the word “weird” to mock and judge what’s unconventional or simply unfamiliar, we’ve had deeper conversations about it. It’s led to such important reflections about how complex and nuanced humans are, and how we have to protect the parts of ourselves others may not understand, because when we allow all parts of ourselves to shine, we feel the most free. And that’s what makes us magical.

Something I hope to teach my children is this... when someone feels different or unfamiliar, it doesn’t make them wrong or unsafe. It’s an opportunity to be curious, inspired, accepting, and empathetic. And in the process, we might just get to share in their shine, as my daughter likes to say.

So join me. Reclaim the weird. ✨

13/05/2026

The in-between, you’ll find us there. 🌅

We almost didn’t have this moment on the beach, at sunset, after dinner with a 🏉 in Hawaii... because for a moment there, we thought we needed to fill our trip with destinations and activities we saw on Instagram, the highlights and must-sees of Maui everyone tells you you can’t miss. But we didn’t. In our 10 years as parents, somewhere along the way, Doug and I learned it’s the space in-between that brings the giggles, the bonding, the moments where we feel like we can truly take in all around us and each other.

We had 6 days in Maui. My mother-in-law brought us there to celebrate turning 70 and being with family. What a special gift she gave us. No partnerships, no content deliverables, just us. No packed itinerary, just an Airbnb next to the ocean and two things we arranged — a surf lesson and a boat ride. The rest of the moments happened organically, on days we felt pulled toward them. A hike to a blowhole. Snorkeling out our front door. The rest was spent in the sand and water just being together. Sun-soaked, salt-covered, nowhere else to be. It was just what we needed.

And it was a reminder that to have these moments as a family, you don’t need exotic travel. We just need to make space for the in-between. Sometimes travel helps us do that better than at home, I admit. New places and people pull you into the present a bit more easily. But maybe that’s what travel is really meant to remind us... that this feeling, this space in-between, is most often found in the simple moments of life. Kurashi.

original audio by .hu1

10/05/2026

I see you mamas, all of you. ♡

It felt fitting that I was up all night the night before Mother’s Day with a kiddo with a cold coming on. We’re camping, and this morning I hear the voices of friends outside chatting and hanging out while I’m in our van beside my girl, listening to her sniffle, her hand on my chest as she tries to fall back asleep after a long night.

This is motherhood.

The new mamas, the grandmas, the biological mamas doing the hard work to get back to their babies (I see you ), the adoptive mamas, foster mamas, and stepmoms pouring every ounce of love into their children ( you amaze me), the single mamas, the SAH mamas, the working mamas, the grieving mamas, the healing mamas, the auntie-mamas who show up every time, the godmothers, the mama caregivers (that’s you ), all of you.

I see you. 🤍

09/05/2026

I see you mamas, all of you. ♡

… the new mamas, the grand-mamas, the biological mamas doing the hard work to get back to their babies (I see you ♡), the adoptive mamas, foster mamas, and stepmoms pouring every ounce of love into their children, the single mamas, the SAH mamas, the working mamas, the grieving mamas, the healing mamas, the auntie-mamas who show up every time, the godmothers, the mama caregivers (that’s you too ), all of you.

I see you.

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