The other day I was watching Hudson play on his school playground before the school doors opened at 9AM, and I heard “mommy! mommy! Come watch me!” as he hung from the monkey bars. I stood there watching him climb, and realized that I would be LUCKY to have another year or two of being called over to watch in a playground of friends. He…
Last week I turned 34! I cannot even believe it. I remember drunkenly begging the hot dog cart outside of my favorite college bar for a discounted hot dog on my 21st birthday like it was yesterday, and here I am 13 years later. This year has been a year of large internal growth for me – and I think a lot of that is…
When ringing in the new year, pregnant and in Florida exactly 12 months ago, I could have never known what 2020 had in store for us. This is a hard post to write, but as it is my yearly tradition to do so, I wanted to take some time at 10:06PM on December 28th, 2020 to sit down, shed some tears with you all, and…
The above photos are me & also me. One is on a day that I am shooting tons of photos, with my hair done, makeup fully done, no kids with me, and the other is on a day when I take a mental health day to spend the full day with my kids. I wake up in the morning, I throw on a sweatshirt and…
We had “plans” to sell the camper for a few months. Plans turned into a Craigslist ad, turned into hoards of people looking at it, but their excuses on passing were endless – some people didn’t realize it was a stick shift, some low-balled us, others just wanted to take a look but never had intentions of buying it. In my brain, I compartmentalized it…
I never thought I would find myself on a “fitness journey” but here I am. Having your second baby really changes your body completely, and I am not talking about weight (because I won’t be talking about weight in this post) but about the strength and tone of my body. After having Charlie, I found myself feeling weak, incapable of doing things and out of…
It has now officially been 2 months since we’ve “self-isolated” or “quarantined” or whatever buzz word you’d like to call it. Basically since I stepped foot outside of the hospital after giving birth to Charlie (or was wheeled out, I should say), I walked into my house and never walked out in the same way again. I waited around for what felt like forever as…
As we’re all well aware of, we are currently in quarantine. I don’t want to put any extra pressure on anyone to exercise during a difficult and anxiety-inducing time, that is not AT ALL the purpose of this post. BUT, for me personally, if I find even just 30 minutes to move my body daily, I live life in a much clearer and happier headspace.…
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! I cannot believe this year is over, it FLASHED by. Every year I love to sit down at the end of the year, and wrap up with a look back on the year. It gives such nice closure to something as large and intangible as a ‘year in time’ and I also love to look back year to year on my final…
2010 I wanted to sit down and take the time it takes to write out this post, for myself to look back on, but also for anyone who is starting off this next decade possibly a bit lost, insecure, and generally down and out. I wanted to share my personal story, because for me, this past decade CHANGED EVERYTHING. I really can’t emphasize it enough.…
Anyone paying attention to the influencer space has noticed that #ad and #sponsored increases significantly during the holiday season (and as I’ll discuss, even weeks before it even starts!) Some bloggers don’t acknowledge this increase (I personally choose not to) while others choose to preface the season by saying that there may be an uptick in sponsored posts, but it’s all brands that they’re excited…
It’s that time of the year when I start to see comments popping up on instagram photos asking “Aren’t you cold in that??” The truth is, usually YES! I was thinking about it the other day as I was gearing up to shoot on a snow day outside on my front stoop – I usually don’t show that side of the blog, and I couldn’t…
I heard on a podcast a few weeks ago (James Nord’s Drink With James) that if you feel burnt out, let down or frustrated with instagram at the moment, take a step back, say no to work, and find a way to use your platform to help others. It was one of those AHA moments for me that shifted my thinking. I think I am…
Today is my 32nd birthday! I usually have a lot of sentimental and deep thoughts to blurt out in my birthday posts each year (see them all here – 30, 29, 28, 25) but this year flew by so quickly that I’ve hardly had a second to really reassess, and think what I’ve accomplished and lived through from last July until this July. So I guess…
You know how Murphy’s law says whatever can go wrong will go wrong? Well that’s how I feel about 2019 so far. It’s been one hell of a trying year, which in some ways ABSOLUTELY HEALED me and my anxiety, but in other ways almost broke me. In 2018, I spent most of the year overworked, overtired and just busy busy busy. So when I…
Last month an e-mail landed into my inbox for a job that required me to be in my bra – and my immediate first thought was to say no. I’ve always been, since as long as I can remember, extremely self conscious in a two-piece swimsuit, and more of the “cover myself up” type. Even when I was younger, I was never the one leaving the…
I haven’t really talked about it much on here, but I’ve been extremely active on Youtube this year! At the beginning of the year, I felt like I needed something NEW. Before running this blog full-time, I had never been the kind of person to stay at a job longer than around two years, mostly because I get bored, or need to feel like…
Gosh, I have so much to say and it’s been so long since I have sat down to write a personal blog post, but I just love getting my thoughts and feelings about social media off my chest over here, and it seems like so many of you connect to it as well. Please let me know if I should do these little chat…
As I was sitting in my bathroom last night (for one of the last nights before it is torn out) I looked over at the little tile ledge leading into my shower that Hudson always sits on while I am brushing my teeth, and tears welled up. He always says “look mama, I’m sitting right here!” but before he could speak, he’d sit on it…
I have to be the first to admit – 2019 feels different in this space. I can look back and pretty much sum up how I felt each New Year “going back to work” in this job role, and it’s never quite felt the way it feels at this moment after 7 years. Back in the early days, when nobody was quite making a living…