Welcome to Meet Jeanine

My mission is to help you conquer mornings with slow morning routines and create a cozy slow lifestyle that will make mom life & family life better and easier.

I want to help you eliminate the rush, so you can be more present to yourself and to your family, and feel good about the way you spend your days. I hope to inspire you to take back your time and in doing so, gain enough space in your day for everything you love & for what matters most.

Get access to my new free, printable Slow Living eBook, and getting started checklist, & learn how to create more of those special moments that make life more precious & families more connected.

You'll also get the link to my free lifestyle library with my other free lifestyle eBooks, articles, worksheets, journal prompts, and more that offer help with morning & evening routines, growing your faith, meal planning, hygge and other lifestyle topics.

Hi, I'm Jeanine...

I'm a lifestyle & faith blogger...

And a single homeschooling mom with an adolescent son who wants to become an astrophysicist.

I'm a certified spiritual director, healer and author.

When I'm not working from home or homeschooling, my favorite moments are hanging out with my son & watching our favorite shows.

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21 Random Facts about Me

(1) If I have a big cup of tea in one hand, there is likely to be my Kindle in the other, because I LOVE to read.

(2) I created my own faith books reading challenge this year, which I hope will deepen my faith and help me, and anyone who reads the books, grow your faith and create a closer relationship with God.

(3) I don't diet anymore, in spite of the fact that I am still overweight. But I'm on a mission to eat healthier meals as long as they aren't boring.

(4) I once won a karaoke contest. The songs I sang were (I kid you not), "Love Will Keep Us Together," "Boogie Oogie Oogie" and Karen Carpenter's "Superstar."

(5) When I was younger, I decided I was a singer person & took a year of voice lessons. I told my teacher that I wanted to sing like Donna Summer. She told me to I better learn to enjoy singing like Karen Carpenter, instead. :)

(6) My mother passed away in 2018. At the funeral, I tried to sing "I'm So Glad We Had this Time Together" (he Carol Burnett song), because she and I used to sing it to each other sometimes when we were getting off the phone. I made it all the way to "seems we just get started..." before bursting into tears.

(7) I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and have had it for over 25 years. That's longer than any romantic relationship I have ever had.

(8) Having CFS is not just about can't-get-out-of-bed fatigue. Even more often than that, it's about feeling too sick to do anything, not finding the words for what you want to say and having weird pain and other symptoms that don't quite make sense.

(9) I'm a homebody. It's my hope, someday, to buy a dream house. House Hunters gives me lots of good ideas.

(10) I love Christmas SO MUCH that I miss it all year long. Do I love it so much that I want to marry it? Absolutely.

(11) Sometimes watching people dance with abandon makes me cry. It's something about seeing glimpses of their heart, of who they really are, as they dance their hearts out.

(12) I have been a Christian for decades, but have been crazy enough to walk away from it more than once and then, come back to a deeper faith.

(13) I have always said that in a movie of my life, I would want Paula Abdul to play me. And I'd want it to be a musical.

(14) I became a vegetarian right after doing several months of the Paleo diet. Go figure.

(15) Every year, I get winter blues, starting in the fall. My light box helps tremendously. But so does hygge.

(16) I may or may not still love Frosted Flakes.

(17) Just like Oprah, I loved The Mary Tyler Moore show, and am moved by the lyrics, "you're gonna make it after all!"

(18) On Saturday nights, you can probably find me watching a Hallmark movie.

(19) I don't completely understand the Enneagram, but I do know that my tritype is 9-7-4.

(20) I do think I understand Myers-Briggs and I am an INFP.

(21) I used to work full time as a therapist and LOVED it! I secretly wish everyone could have her own therapist.

Thanks for coming to this page to meet me! See you soon.

Love, Jeanine