Category: Lifestyle

• January 6, 2021

  Our Birth Story: The Hospital Lost Our Baby

  Now I will start this story with the best part, I’m typing this while pretty much fully recovered with my son laying next to me on the couch- the journey to get to this point was not as wonderful. I will let you know that if you are expecting or planning on having a baby…
• September 2, 2020

  5 Out-of-the-Box Sex Reveal Ideas

  

  If I hadn’t experienced pregnancy during a global pandemic, I’m not sure that I would have participated in a sex reveal. It always seemed like an odd concept to me- celebrating a baby’s genitalia, but alas, I wanted to be able to share the news with our family in a fun way. We decided to…
• July 26, 2020

  Getting Through the First Trimester

  

  Personally, I was not prepared for what the first trimester had in store for me. While this is my first (and possibly only) pregnancy, I thought my life-long obsession with mommy bloggers would have better prepared me for the nightmare that was the first trimester (at least in my case). I think what I was…
• June 30, 2020

  First Trimester Recap

  

  I am now 16 weeks and some odd days pregnant! The baby is the size of a naval orange (no I do not know the difference between a naval orange and a regular orange). I am very, very relieved to be out of the first trimester. In the first trimester, I spent a lot of…
• May 25, 2020

  I’m Pregnant!

  

  I’m reaching my peak- turning into a mommy blogger! Finding Out… I got my birth control taken out in January because I felt that it was negatively impacting my mental and physical health. After that was out of my system I started tracking my ovulation using a bulk test kit I ordered on Amazon, it…
• March 26, 2020

  Multi-Level Marketing: Is it bad?

  

  For a long time now I have been obsessed with multi-level marketing/direct sales/network marketing/whatever else it’s being called. I’ve been so fascinated by how it works, how people make money, and more importantly who is making money. There seem to be two major camps those who absolutely loathe it, the anti-mlm community, and those who…
• January 12, 2020

  Our Wedding

  

  On Saturday, October 5, 2019, I married the love of my life. After planning for a ridiculous amount of time, saving and spending a ridiculous amount of money, I FINALLY got to marry Joe. It was an amazing day filled with love, laughter, tears, and pancakes (obviously our wedding had pancakes). Our great day wouldn’t…
• January 6, 2020

  a reflection of 2019

  

  2019: a house, a wedding, and a puppy 2019 brought a lot of greatness and growth to my personal life, it was really quite amazing. In April, Joe (my husband) and I were trying to figure out what to do since my lease was ending in June, we were getting married in October, and I…
• January 3, 2019

  2019 Goals

  Since I started my blog in 2013 (dang) I’ve shared my goals for the New Year. Normally, this would’ve been done with a reflection of last years goals, but honestly, I haven’t looked at those goals and I’m not ready for a reflection. It also would’ve been posted on either 12/31 or 1/1, but again,…
• December 17, 2018

  Our Engagement

  On January 11, 2018, I went on a life-changing first date. I wrote a blog post the morning of, never published it because I didn’t know what to do with it. If you ask Joe, it wasn’t a great first date, but it was in fact, both of our last first date.  By the fourth…