The beautiful road, with ocean views, leading up to the trio's home.

"Before we moved to Santa Cruz, we traveled a bit in our trailer, searching for home. We went as far as Orcas Island (definitely a heart home) and somehow ended up in Santa Cruz, only 40 minutes from where we had previously lived. My son Taj really is the one who manifested the barn we now call home. He told me we needed a river and the forest and a house with a loft. I looked on Craigslist one day and there it was, exactly as he had described."

The New Mexico-inspired interiors.

Kelci's open bedroom (where the kids usually end up crashing, too).

"Naturalist meets eclectic bohemian meets midcentury modern meets collector/hoarder with minimalist aspirations. I've kind of developed my own style. I don't buy new furniture and never sets. I hunt antique and thrift stores and flea markets and look for handmade goods. I don't go for a certain style but rather what my heart and eye is drawn to. I am constantly moving things around in my home, it's such a living, breathing form of art and expression and I am ever drawn to creating beauty and the essence of home."

Kelci wears a dress by Maria Calderon of Amaru, vintage clogs, and a vintage Vietnamese medicine pouch necklace. Taj wears a top by See Sun and pants by Boy + Girl. Sparrow wears a See Sun dress and Mabo leggings.

"I love that they can run free and be completely in nature as soon as they step out the door. They are always barefoot. Nature holds us, nourishes us. We love the goats and the waterfall and swimming hole we can walk to. The stars. The redwoods we climb. The frogs we listen to in the rainy season and the crickets in the summer."

This vintage Vietnamese medicine pouch was a gift from Amy of Daughter of the Sun.

"I struggle a lot with the length of time it takes to get down to Santa Cruz proper. I have a hard time shopping for the whole week and find myself spending more time in our little old station wagon going up and down the mountain than I would like. And sometimes it gets really lonely. It's a long drive for anyone to visit. And I have no cell service and spotty internet, which is both a pro and a con."

The family's landlord gifted them three goats to trial-raise. They named them Starlight, Cocoa, and Cloud.

"Oh, yes. I dream of moving back home sometimes, to Hawaii, but to Kauai. I have old Maine farmhouse dreams, I have Ojai dreams (it feels like home every time I go), Los Angeles dreams. And I love West Marin and sometimes dream of nestling into the French countryside. Also, Colorado with my friend Salihah."

That goat life.

"I am currently working on a Waldorf-inspired rhythm with my children. Warmth and breath are at the core. It's been an intense (magical) couple of years for us and things have felt disrupted and out of balance and deeply painful. We are now balancing, breathing, finding rhythm and laughter and joy. My dear friend in Santa Cruz watches my children three days a week now, so that I am able to dedicate that time to my work and self. When they are in school, I work and then pick them up and we go home to be outside, to do artwork, to walk, to cook, and then bedtime stories and songs and goodnight."

Peek-a-boo! Sparrow's sweater is by Misha + Puff.

"We love Bantam for a restaurant, Companion Bakeshop, and Staff of Life or New Leaf, our health food stores for juice and smoothies. We love the library downtown or in the Sea Bright area, Garfield Park, the Natural History Museum. The beach always—we like 26th Ave. on the East Side, Natural Bridges, this tiny little beach I don't know the name of, and Sea Glass Beach in Davenport."

In the chicken coop.

"The beauty way is my philosophy. I bring into my home what is beautiful and brings joy and peace and inspiration. I have been letting go of a lot recently, keeping only what inspires and brings light and is currently serving us as a family. I am currently being drawn to simplicity, and the more excess I clear out, the more free I feel."

Little mermaid. Costume by Sarah's Silks.

"We end up spending most of our time in the kitchen and the living room. We do a lot of art on our 'art table' downstairs. Otherwise, we are outside with the goats or in the forest or garden or up on the meadow. And the beach."

A bowl of flowers that Kelci plans to string and build a decorative privacy wall of sorts around her bedroom area.

"Having children has really inspired my space. I feel having a designated playspace is important, and also incorporating beautiful kids' toys into our living space is just as important, like the wooden blocks my woodworking uncle from Hawaii made for my little brother that I like to keep in our living room and their wooden train set. With that said, I love to have their separate space upstairs that can be just theirs. I can let it be messy and still breathe in a clean space downstairs. They have their beds in their play room, but in reality they sleep with me, one in each nook. We've always had a family bed, I love its tenderness and the closeness it brings. My son is getting big and is naturally moving toward his own bed, but for now, I treasure the connection and morning nuzzles."

Kelci wears Jesse Kamm pants, a hand-me-down tank top from her grandmother, and earrings by Salihah Moore.

Pizza in progress.

"The blocks my uncle made for my little brother when he was a babe (he's now 25), the wooden trucks my friend made for my kids, the wooden Waldorf figures from Ostheimer, particularly the unicorn, a rabbit fur horse I found at a garage sale, their play silks by Sarah's Silks and their play clips. Their Elsa Beskow books and Peter Parnall's illustrated books like Annie and the Old One, The Way to Start a Day, and a book from childhood that was my grandmother's and one she would read to me, The Velveteen Rabbit."

Another beautiful book, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble, sits next to a Radiant Human aura portrait and family tintype.

"My favorite art works are those of my children, like the weaving my son made for me and their paintings they give me on the daily. I still need to put them all up on our art wall. And then treasures I have collected and gifts from dear ones in my life, like the three nests I found on hikes in Hawaii, my owl wings that were a gift from a friend in Big Sur, my sparrow hawk wing from my daughter's midwife, the falcon feather from one of my dearests, the hawk feather from my brother, the tiny wooden round box my mom gave to me when I was twelve, filled with antique pearl buttons she bought at a garage sale when we lived in Connecticut, the carved coconut cup from Mexico another dear one gave to me with a wolf and a crow carved into it that I use in cacao ceremony, the Rama and Sita another dear one gave to me to call in the kind of heavenly love Rama and Sita have for each other, the little wooden Japanese doll you can open up and put treasures in, my woven Moroccan rugs, my Danish couch."

"It's been an evaluation of self. An awakening. I birthed both my children naturally and at home. Both of those experiences opened my heart, my soul, my spirit. Being a mother has challenged me to step into my higher self, not just challenged but demanded. I am learning to love myself, respect myself. I am learning to breathe and I am finding my voice. My self. Before I got pregnant I had a one-way ticket to Iceland. I was going to start there and then travel the world. It was, and still is, a deeply ingrained dream that has been in my heart for almost the greater part of my life. I never went. I let it go for a bit, for these early years. I have had a lot of sadness around it, what I did not experience as a single being with only myself to take care of, but at the same time I embrace the unexpected gifts that are brought into my life, and that dream is now a dream I envision with my children and trust it will come in its right form at the right time."

An impressive weaving by Taj.

"Milk squirting straight out of my boobs. And the deep exhaustion and what I am capable of without having a full night of sleep for seven years."

"This has been the hardest adjustment for me. Having one to take care of was easy compared to the challenges having two has brought to me. Like when they are both crying and both need my love and tenderness and touch, but I am only one. Or when my son was jealous and would hurt my daughter and my mama wolf instincts would be to protect her, against my first baby. That's heartbreaking."

Sparrow's mostly unused sleeping nook, next to mama's bed.

"Learning to see with my blue eyes again. With childlike wonderment. Learning from them. The slow pace they go, the tiny things that excite and delight."

"Someone harming them physically and emotionally and spiritually."

Feather collections, everywhere.

"Waking up with snuggles and laughter, tea and breakfast, morning walk and art, an adventure to the ocean or forest. There would be no fighting. Ending the day with a yummy homemade meal and a fire and good music."

Rings by Kelci's label, Shepherdess, earrings by her friend Salihah Moore.

"When I was first pregnant with him, I met a dear friend named Taja. Her name resonated with my soul. When I was five months pregnant, I went to Esalen for a month to do the massage program. I got massaged and lovingly touched every day for a month, soaked in the sulfur tubs on the edge of the sea multiple times a day, did tai chi or ecstatic dance every morning, got so juicy on the meals made fresh from the garden, and had the digery doo played on my belly at night at the tubs. While I was there, I started speaking names out to the stars, and Taj kept coming up, the vibration of his name resounded in my chest and body and soul. It was his name from then on."

"Sparrow was another kind of pregnancy all together. My dear friend suggested the name to me before she was born and I loved it. But it wasn't until she was born that I knew it was her name. She had a traumatic birth. She had shoulder dystocia. My midwife had to pull her out of me by hooking her finger underneath her arm pit while I was on my hands and knees. When she came out she was purple, eyes closed, and breathless. I rubbed her body and told her to stay here with me, I love you, I told her, I want you here. She was on the veil of life and death. My midwife gave her oxygen and three and a half minutes (slash eternity) later she opened her eyes, looked into mine, and took her first jagged breathe, making her own choice to stay here on the earth. Sadly, the firemen and EMTs arrived just after, and they had to take her to the emergency room without me because I had to deliver my placenta, but she was with my sweet angel friend, Grace, who hovered above her telling her she was safe and loved. They asked me her name when they came into my house, and Sparrow came tumbling out of my mouth. Just a few months ago she decided she was not Sparrow any more, but Rainbow Hawk Lizard Butterfly (all of them at once!) and other such names, finally settling on Moonlight, and now back to Sparrow. We go between Moonlight and Sparrow now, and on special occasions Rainbow Hawk Lizard Butterfly."

A very cool, if not un-PC, pillow.

"Jane Birkin, Angelina Jolie, Mother Theresa, my friend Robin and my friend Sequoia."

The pretty bathroom scene.

Everybody Poops, a Taro Romi classic.

"Allow yourself to feel any emotion you face without judgement. Sleep as often as you can because the next few years are going to be both the best of your life and the most exhausting. Please, please, please breastfeed and don't stop until they are at least two. Please, please, please wear your baby, face to your breast, to wash the dishes, to walk, to make dinner, to vacuum, to dance."

"Parenting From The Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel, The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff, and Beyond The Rainbow Bridge by Barbara J. Patterson."

"Embrace it. Know that you are enough, and a complete family without another. And know that when the time comes, if you wish, you can chose a mate that brings light and joy and beauty to us as a family, but does not complete, because we (you) are whole already. Don't settle just because it's fucking hard to do it alone, because from what I've observed, it's fucking hard no matter what. Let it not be a disadvantage but an advantage."

Stacks upon stacks of treasures.

"Perhaps, but if so it will be with my beloved. Or maybe an adoption."

A tiny treasures display case.

"We find ourselves eating at our local health food store when low on time and out and about. Or, if home, rice and raw veggies and simple local organic chicken. And organic miso soup from the packets."

One basket-filled side of the playroom.

And the opposite.

"My style is a form of art for me, it has been since I was a child. It changes with my heart. I am my own palette. I don't follow trends necessarily, though I am inspired by what's current and really what I feel is coming up in trends. I love vintage and handmade pieces .I am particularly drawn to the '30s and '40s and especially women's workwear of that time. I like to play and move and get dirty, so I like the combination of function and beauty. I wear what inspires and what my heart is feeling at the moment."

"For sure. I am drawn to functional beauty now. I'm letting go of a lot of my delicate vintage collection. Clothing that inspires and is expressive of self, but clothing that I can roll around in, climb trees in, embrace dirty kisses and hugs in."

"My vintage jeans I scored at Goodwill in the Halloween section years ago, my Salihah Moore earrings, my Jesse Kamm pants, my Beatrice Valenzuela sandals, my Milena Silvano sheepskin coat, a vintage apron dress made of hemp, these high-waisted and wide-legged cotton pants I got years ago at a Napalese import store in Carmel Valley, and for some reason I can stop wearing my vintage-inspired Nikes, and the vintage medicine pouch from Vietnam from my friend Amy. Also, my antique ring from India of Lakshmi and the jewelry I make."

"Beatrice Valenzuela, Lauren Manoogian, Jesse Kamm, Rachel Comey, Black Crane, Electric Feathers, Salihah Moore, and Maria Calderon. For children, I love Bobo Chooses, Nico Nico, Mabo, and Misha and Puff. I love women designers who are creating pieces from their hearts and spark inspiration and something familiar in my own heart. Women who are mothers and creating ethical, small-batch clothing."

"I prefer to shop in person. I shop vintage mostly. I love The General Store and Gravel & Gold in San Francisco, but as a mama I find myself shopping online more than in person. Online I shop The General Store, Oro Boro, Mille, Totokaelo, and Roseark."

"My beauty routine is something I am developing. I have not always taken care of myself or loved myself. I am learning this, and to nurture and nourish myself from that place of love. I love my beauty products from my dear friend Shiva Rose and her beauty philosophy. I use her rose oil on my face everyday and her eye cream and cleansing milk. I have been anointing myself with special oils like fossilized amber and sandalwood. I use a lot of coconut oil and put ghee on my eyes. I don't wear much makeup, but, if any, blush by RMS and I do love lipstick every now and then. I always only use natural products."

"Well, I haven't truly consistently worked out for seven years! My body is longing to move, though, and I am in a place in my life now where I feel not only can I make room for self care, but I must for my soul and this sacred body that holds it. Yoga, hiking, and mediation are working their way back into my rhythm. Surfing is an aspiration and something I'd like to get better at."

"I was born in Hawaii and lived there for the first eight years of my life until we relocated to Massachusetts. That was a shocker. Then a tiny town in Connecticut and every summer on a lake in New Hampshire, called Lake Sunapee, with my cousins and family. Some of my most treasured childhood memories are there on that lake. It's instilled a love of the East Coast and the changing seasons and the feelings those changes bring in my being. And then there's the love of the warmth of Hawaii, the healing of the waters and the forests, the sound of the ocean and passing rain showers. I didn't really go to collage, Sonoma State for one year, and then I kind of floated around, not wanting or not ready to sit still and learn through school. I learned instead through experiences and the study of self."

"I make jewelry for my profession. I launched a line a couple of years ago called Shepherdess. It has been a beautiful and slow process for me as a full-time mama. It comes from my heart and is one form of art and expression I love. I make each piece by hand. I have been working on my next line, which I am so excited about, so stay tuned! I feel so much welling up inside me and it's not limited to jewelry, I feel an opening for new creative movement, so stay tuned for that, too!"

Kelci wears a vintage dress, her own jewelry, vintage boots from Ralph Lauren, and an African hat. Taj wears a Bobo Choses shirt and Black Crane pants. Both kids wears Salt Water sandals.

"My work has been inspired since becoming a mom, and really has gone from a dream to a reality."

"It's a hard balance I have not yet mastered. Actually, I have felt pretty imbalanced it in and am working toward that balance."

"Yes. But it's a spread-out village. I have been creating that support system and calling it in. I have the most beautiful friends who love and support us and are family. For a long time I felt very much alone. So, this is bliss to me and vital."

Strolling the meadow.

"I love that I am creating pieces from my own heart, and that I am my own boss."

The cutest little giraffe.

"My next line, which will build upon the simple, imperfect gold of my first line. And a collection of curated vintage and handmade items to add to my web shop. I'd also like to create a line of heirloom children's jewelry in gold and silver."

To keep following along on Kelci and her family's inspiring journey, check out her website and Instagram feed.