Lauren loves to read and spends most of her days chasing her small children, talking on the phone with her mother, and trying to "Keep our small world here spinning without launching anything into a full blown galactic attack," according to her biography on her popular blog Life Refined.
It gives the rest of us, "Just a small snippet of our lives and the uncanny adventures that we find ourselves in," states Melissa.
Lauren is a mother, sister, daughter and friend and uses practical every day learning experiences in the world around her as the backdrop for the material and advice Lauren dispenses in her thought-provoking essays on every day life as seen through her eyes.