Around here, I’m raising ‘horse girls’—that’s how my four girls identify themselves. Not riders. Not equestrians. Horse girls. Somewhere along our horse journey, my horse kids and I developed our own...
“I could have done better.” My daughter said it after a local derby where she finished fourth. In fact, I’ve heard that phrase a lot from her lately. At first,...
Lameness, sickness, vet bills, heartbreak. What happens when the very thing that once lit you up, the thing you woke up for in the morning, that saved you, no longer...
I’ll be honest. I had preconceived notions about the “circuit kids.” You know the ones. The young riders that horse kids follow on social media. The ones who bounce from...
Not every rider leaves a barn because of something big. Sometimes, they just slowly disappear. They stop asking questions. Then they stop lingering after lessons or feeling excited to go...
Being a horse-kid mom is different than most sports. It’s not just carting your kid to a few practices a week or a game on the weekend. It’s all-consuming. It’s...
Owning your own farm sounds like a dream. And it is… just not always in the ways you pictured. For instance, you might imagine yourself walking out in the morning...
Sweeping aisles. Filling water buckets. Cleaning tack. Picking feet. Helping out in the ways that don’t involve sitting in the saddle. From the outside, it looks like ‘barn chores’—or even...
We talk a lot about the big problems in the horse world. Cost. Horse welfare. Ethics. Lately, I’ve been thinking about something smaller, but just as important. The little kindnesses...
I’ve been hearing it often from trainer friends: kids just don’t seem to want to work the way they used to. And I see it myself. Many riders show up,...
Horse shopping is exhausting, especially when you’ve been searching for years with a limited budget. It’s hard enough when you’re shopping for yourself. But when you’re searching for your child,...
Let me be clear before we begin. I love horses. I love horse people. I am 100 percent one of you. Which is exactly why I feel qualified to say what we are...
Every horse person knows the math doesn’t add up. Horses cost more than we’ll ever make, yet we keep buying more of them. It’s like potato chips. One is never enough. My...
There have been times I’ve wanted to quit the horses. Sell everything: the blankets in every size, bits in every shape. I’ve even imagined selling our farm, the one I...
Raising my daughters around horses has shown me that horse-life is equal parts joy and heartbreak. They’ve grown up in dusty barns and sun-drenched rings, learning, falling, and climbing back...
Last winter, I bought a pony for my kids, sight-unseen from Florida (I know, I know). He was cute as a bug. His little face had already stolen my heart...
If you want a blog post from a young, hot, equestrian mom who has her crap together, keep on scrolling. You know the type… They’re the ones on social media who...
Horses are expensive. Like, nauseatingly expensive. And unless you’ve got a bottomless bank account (spoiler: we don’t), keeping your kids, or yourself, in the tack without going broke takes time,...
