Hello, friends! How are you all feeling this week? I hope that your week has been off to a beautiful start. Well, as you can see, the birthday celebrations keep on coming over here by us. Over the weekend, we had Marina’s “Mermaid Birthday Party”…
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Keeping My Family Safe with First Alert
Read moreThank you First Alert for sponsoring this post. First Alert 10-year sealed battery alarms offer hassle-free protection that helps keep your home and family protected for a decade! #LiveWithA10 It’s hard to believe that this spring we will be celebrating two years in our home.…
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5 Tips for More Energy
Read moreThank you to the makers of 5-hour™ TEA shots for sponsoring this post. The last seven months of my life have been incredibly transformational. It all started a year ago, when I restarted my yoga practice in February of 2018. For me, yoga is a…
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A Mommy & Me Birthday Breakfast Date
Read moreI can’t believe that my baby girl turns 4 this month! Can someone please explain how that happened? Because I swear it was just yesterday that we were celebrating her 2nd birthday… I have no idea how it happened, but I do know that we…
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Love is the ultimate law of life.
Read moreThere is a Japanese phrase, “Shikata ga nai.” It translates too, “It cannot be helped.” I came across it for the first time about a decade ago when I read Snow Falling on Cedars for the first time. It seared into my mind like an…
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Marina Grace at 3 Years + 11 Months
Read moreMarina and I had a little impromptu photo shoot this week. I love these snaps so much because they capture her silly spirit so perfectly. She really is such a goof ball and it cracks me up. I know that I say it a lot,…
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Green Living: In the Kitchen & Grocery Shopping
Read moreHello and happy February, friends! Things are good around here. We’ve been going through lots of big changes… but what else is new, right? We’ve been through so much transition these last few years. I’m sure you’ve probably come to expect that from me at…
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Roman James at 5 Years + 8 Months
Read moreSometime in the last month, Roman started to read. Of all of the miraculous things I have witnessed in my time as his mother, this has perhaps been the most amazing. Somehow, I have always struggled to imagine that tremendous leap that occurs when a…
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4 Practical Tips for Dealing with Overwhelm
Read moreOver the course of the last year, my relationship with anxiety has shifted dramatically. For the most part, my anxiety is no longer running the show. I am so aware of it and I have made so much peace with it. I understand that it…