Lately I’ve been posting infrequently due to my life being so overwhelmingly busy and I’m not mad about it. Am I the only mama who desperately needed this long weekend to just relax with the kids and hubby? I guarantee if there was a line I was first in line! Lol… This weekend was a much-needed time away to our second home away from home: the beach! We spent the long weekend together sunbathing on the beach then took advantage of the long Memorial Day weekend / Monday holiday to spend some quality r&r together. Before moving forward, I just want to share again: Happy Memorial Day! 🇺🇸 // My…
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From Personal Trauma to a Life of Happiness and Love: How I Transformed My Life in just Seven Years (Series)
“Always greet the day with gratitude, humor and creativity.” I’ve been thinking a lot about my life journey and how far I’ve come. You know how when you look back on your life and think, wow, I can’t believe I powered through that hurdle or that challenge. Yes, I’ve been thinking about moments, traumatic + stressful life moments that I had to literally grind through so I can come out shiny and happy. I’ve been on this amazing platform (Instagram) since 2012, which is right around the time I went through a very personal traumatic yet transformative period of my adult life. I’ve since created a life that is incredibly…
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What I Learned in My First Year of Marriage
Hi everyone! So it’s my 1st wedding anniversary {read about our wedding}. To mark this special milestone, I wanted to share some of the things I’ve learned. Personally, yes, we knew these lessons, but I found that we had to be very active participants. Read on to find out some of the key principles that we’ve turned to help us stay focused on each other, our kids, our newly blended family. Honeymoon blues It’s a thing and I suffered from this big time. But it didn’t linger long thanks to the holidays. I also put a lot of focus on my event coordination business, Always Creating Studio (www.alwayscreatingstudio.com), which left…
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Weekend at Ocean City Beach, Boardwalk Fun, and Riverfront Eats
As many of you know, Little A is out of kindergarten and soon to be in first grade this fall. To celebrate her milestone and kick-off summer break we took a mommy + me trip out camping with Getaways House then the following weekend we packed up the dogs and headed out to a weekend on the beach. Little couldn’t really go swimming, which I thought she was definitely going to have a fit about, but she was okay with playing the sand; we made sand castles together and walked around the boardwalk. WHERE WE ATE. We had lunch at Brew River Restaurant & Bar, a riverfront eatery serving…
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A Look Back on 2017 // Goals For 2018
I’m apprehensive to say goodbye to 2017, after all it has been a year full of beautiful life moments and milestones for me and my family. This year has been such beautiful blessings, some lows and highs—mostly highs—and I remember every moment as though it was yesterday. Part of me want to cry because the year is over and part of me is smiling — 2017 left a permanent smile on my heart that I will cherish forever. Before leaping into the new year, I wanted to look back on some of my favorite moments and milestones of this year. All endings are also beginnings, we just don’t know it…
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Motherhood: Weekend Recap // Week 42
Hey, my good vibes tribes! Been a minute since my last post and even longer since my last #momlife update. Oh my gosh, we have had such a fun, busy, and hectic couple of days in our home! I had to skip my style post on Tuesday because it was my Little A’s 6th birthday. I cannot believe that I have a 6-year-old to be honest. Birthdays are so special, especially hers, obviously so I literally go overboard with the celebrations, lol, like why not, right? And let me tell you she was so excited for her birthday and to turn six that she literally counted down to the day……
