When I was in college, I used to wash my face with a bar of soap in the shower. Looking back I am pretty disgusted with this routine for a few reasons. 1. Washing your face with a surface that has scrubbed other unmentionable surfaces on your body is never ok. And 2. I’m pretty sure my college roommates used my bar of soap more than once. And washing your face with a surface that has scrubbed unmentionable surfaces of…
This morning I woke up and went to the gym. And I loved it. Are you shocked? If you’ve followed this blog from the beginning then you know that I profoundly dislike the gym. Or, at least I used to. If you are a new reader, click here and catch up on some of my old feelings about exercise. It will help you realize the huge revelation I have come to in the last few months. You see, I used…
Sometimes, when I’m on a diet, I like to close my eyes when I’m eating something and pretend it’s something I would rather have. But other times, I find or create a recipe that makes me wonder why I haven’t eaten this way all along. This, is one of those recipes. Through this round of The Whole30, I have found a new love for sweet potatoes. I used to think that the only way to eat them was baked..until they…
I’m now two weeks into The Whole30 for the second time in my life and I was thinking about what I learned from the last time I did this that helped the transition easier this time. And I said easier, not that this was easy. Many of you may be yawning, wishing this blog post was about Mack and one of her epic meltdowns, but I figured I am not the only one who has struggled with this and that…
I have had a lot of requests lately to write about my favorite hair and makeup products. Let me start first by saying that I am in no way a professional. I’ve always loved beauty products and they’re pretty much the only thing I hoard. When I was younger, I would get my hair and makeup done, only to come home and cry because I hated what I looked like. Makeup that made me look like a paid escort was…
Every single time someone picks up my purse. Scratch that. My diaper bag. Wait no…my suitcase? Ok, my mom purse. Every time someone picks up my mom purse, they make the same exact statement. What do you have in there? My response? ALL THE THINGS. You see, when you first have babies, you carry a diaper bag. A 52 pocket monstrosity that they half attempted to make cute with some sort of floral pattern. You buy the one that all…
It’s that time again. Most people shed pounds for a summer bod…I like to indulge in all that summer and its fantastic BBQ’s have to offer. But alas, I am not getting any younger so I am headed back to the land of healthy eating. And not just healthy, but clean eating. Because while my tastebuds love everything that resembles a carb, my body, not so much. A few bites of bread or sugar and I balloon out like I’m…
I did this post as a short Facebook live video a while back and decided to turn it into a blog post. The idea came after a friend asked me a very simple, but very difficult question to answer. Like, my mind went blank. If you know me, I talk way too much so it made me laugh that I wasn’t quite sure what to say. The question was, So now that you’re a stay at home mom, which is…
Life is about opportunities. Some you take and some you don’t. Sometimes opportunities you don’t take, turn into doors that were meant to stay closed. And sometimes, the ones you do take, open doors you never dreamed could be opened. Saying yes to this business has given us the chance to create what our futures will look like. This blog for example, is the product of time freedom. A dream at one time kept at a distance because of a…
This blog post goes out to all the moms raising a strong willed child. Anyone who has a sweet, kind toddler, who sits quietly in a restaurant coloring or plays alone while you get things done will probably not understand this at all and will most likely think I am a horrible mom. But, I’m willing to lend my sassy pants beauty over for a trip to the grocery store in case you’re curious. Or just go to my google…