Hi! We’re Stef and Cori, we talk too fast, finish each other's sentences and are more like sisters than mother and daughter in that we are best friends but still drive each other nuts sometimes. Ok, let’s rewind a little. We’re from Canada. Stef grew up on a horse and passed her love for riding with Cori. Our shared passion turned into a family business, Equinox Stables, where we taught riding lessons, trained horses, showed up and down the West Coast and traveled to Europe buying horses to train and sell. Long story short, Cori moved to California for a riding job, fell in love with the sunshine and never looked back.
After a few years Stef and Cori’s dad, Herb, sold the riding stable and decided to retire to California. What the heck? Who wants to live in the cold when you don’t have to, right?! Stef and Cori continued showing horses in California for a few years until Cori decided to take time off riding to go to school. She ended up finishing her degree in London where she got a BA in Communications and Marketing. Stef got back into the riding for herself, now doing dressage instead of show jumping which she did before she had Cori.
In 2016 Cori got married and in March 2018 she and her husband, Donny welcomed a baby girl named Eleanor. Just weeks later, Cori and Donny made the big decision to move in with Stef and Herb to have their help with Eleanor as Donny launched his own business.
As you can imagine, it’s been a learning curve with 4 adults and a new baby living under one roof plus 2 dogs, 3 cats, and 3 horses. It's not something Cori and Donny planned or expected when they got married and bought their first house. And yet we all knew right away that it would be wonderful for Eleanor to grow up with two extra sets of hands loving and teaching her about life. We realize that it is a bit of a foreign concept nowadays to have all the family together, especially when we’re all encouraged to have our own white picket fence. But as Stef and Herb pointed out, in the old country where our relatives come from, it was common for the older generation to help raise the grandkids so their parents could work. In fact, Herb's Oma and Opa (German for grandparents) did exactly that for his parents. So for us with a new baby and new business, it just made sense. They say it takes a village to raise a family and we’re now living by that motto.
As for getting along, it’s amazing how a baby changes everything. All of a sudden our relationships with one another are different. Stef and Herb are now Oma and Opa and Cori and Donny are now the mom and dad. Likewise, Cori and Stef used to fight like sisters but now it’s not about either of us--it’s all about Eleanor. We want to help and be helped. Yes we all get frustrated with one another from time to time but we’re more patient and thankful than ever before. Maybe it’s because we’re acutely aware of Eleanor’s little eyes and ears soaking up everything. We are joined by our love for her and want her to grow up learning to be kind and respectful, to laugh and learn, and, most of all to love, and know that she is loved.
This blog is about…. our "stable" life. Learning to live together, the dynamics of a multi-generational family under one roof. We’ll share our favorite recipes because we love to cook, stories about riding (we are still horse girls at heart!), being a new mom, a new grandma, and everything in between. Why? Because we’re nuts? Maybe. But its more because we want to share our experiences with others and to create a community to encourage and be encouraged. Are we nervous about putting it all out there? For sure! But here we go!
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