Are you ready to stop living paycheck to paycheck? Guess what?! You have the power in YOU to do it. You get to decide where your money goes! I like doing my budget on a spreadsheet online, so I have access to it on my phone and my computer. Here are my top ten tips: […]

I’m a redhead, and that means my little eyelashes are red and blonde. I have hated this for as long as I can remember! I was so jealous of girls who had dark, thick lashes. In junior high or high school if I wasn’t wearing mascara, people would ask me if I was OK, if […]

“Fitness” can sometimes be a scary word for us mamas and, honestly, women in general. The stigma around fitness and looking a certain way to be considered worthy is a bunch of BULL!!  Yup, hello (imagine me smiling and waving). You are going to hear from a mama (me lol) who STRUUUUGLED with fitness, body […]

Well, here we are. It’s  September. Socializing is still out, quarantine is still in and we’re all going stir crazy. Like the rest of the world, I’ve struggled with how to keep my kids on track and organized for a school year that may very well be spent at our kitchen table instead of in a classroom. How […]

Back to school and the changing of the seasons is the perfect time for you to spruce up your wardrobe. Just a few pieces can completely transform your wardrobe and give you great outfits that you can mix in and match with your current pieces.

As long as I can remember, I have always wanted to get out of the house. Whenever my Mom or Dad would go somewhere (anywhere really: the gas station, grocery store, bank, etc.), I always wanted to go with them. I have not been a homebody since I was a little girl, so life right […]

Like many moms, I had no idea what to expect after the birth of my first daughter, Hazel. I had read countless blog posts about infant sleep, postpartum diet for milk supply, and proper bottle sanitation. It never occurred to me to prepare myself mentally for what was really in store for me next.  Again, […]

One morning last October, I was doing our usual morning routine which included letting our 100-lb Pitbull out into our backyard. That particular morning, I decided to put the shock collar on him (which he had had since he was a puppy), because the day before, I struggled to get him back inside. He growled […]

“…I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau I stood at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and read this on a sign. […]

I didn’t want to feel so depleted.  The best part of quarantine for me – all the family togetherness. The worst part – all the family togetherness. It can be both – For me, most things are an AND not an OR. My kids range in age from three to thirteen. I have one that […]