A sweet friend of mine and I often open up our conversations with "So, what's the tea?" When we say this to one another, it's not a doorway into gossip. Instead, it's an invitation to share how you're really doing. It's our way of saying "Don't give me the surface level bullsh*t. Tell me how …
Happy New Year friends! This is my first blog post of 2020. I honestly have wrestled a lot with if I should keep blogging or not, sometimes buying into the lie that "no one reads blogs anymore" or that "no one cares what I have to say." But you know what? I have been blogging …
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Okay... So I didn't exactly do **every** color of the rainbow but it was pretty darn close! One year ago exactly, I decided to finally take the plunge and start experimenting with fashion hair colors. My hair is naturally dirty blonde, but I had been dyeing it black for years. This post is to document …
Each year, the family keeps getting bigger and bigger so I finally decided that this year we would implement the four gift rule for the entire family. That being, each member gets a gift from the category of something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read. At first, I was …
Oh no, she's started selling Essential Oils! Get ready for your newsfeed to fill up with annoying-ness and be told how everything you've been buying is complete shit and the only way your life will be good is if you buy this bottle of lavender. We've all seen our friends hop on the Essential Oil …
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Hey Friends! This week I wanted to share three simple life hacks I have been using for awhile now that help keep my grocery bill low. Feeding a family of five is no cheap thing... if we all have peanut butter sandwiches for lunch we literally will go through almost an entire loaf of bread …
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Not only is today the first day of summer but it's also International Yoga Day! How fun is that?! I know I have quiet a few new readers on the blog and Instagram so I thought it would be fun to unpack a little more of why I became a yoga teacher, why I practice …
You guys, I'm officially planning to start my own book club at the end of this summer! I am a huge reader and love nothing more than to gather with my girlfriends and talk so I'm really looking forward to it. This might sound a little lame, but honestly starting a book club has always …
There's not much on this sweet green earth that I love more than gardenias. They are my all time favorite flower (with sunflowers coming in close second place). The aroma is so sweet and nostalgic and will always remind me of summers spent at my grandparents house where the tea was extra sweet, we were …
I'm gonna be honest with you, this post started off as a rant. After a couple of really tough weeks and feeling like I'm pouring from a completely empty cup, I'm fed up with the way society expects us moms to mother as if we don't have full time careers and work as if we …
