Make your parent life or on-the-go life easier by being prepared and keeping certain things in your car this summer! So get together all your summer essentials and be prepared with a full summer trunk organizer!  PREP YOUR SUMMER ESSENTIALS FOR YOUR CAR!  After more snow and ice in April than I can ever remember,...

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Dealing with cold and flu season as childless adults has nothing on parenthood! I’m sharing a few easy tips on how we survive the cold and flu months with a baby and toddler, including our favorite item for not only relieving symptoms when we are sick but also helping us feel better every single day...

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We all want the next year to be the best year yet, but it doesn’t just happen! Thoughtful goals and resolutions for the New Year are needed as well as important actions to set up for a successful year so I’m sharing my go to tips n preparing for a great new year, including some...

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Picking One Word for the Year to give you focus and strength can be empowering as it allows you to carefully craft your goals around what matters to you most. If you need help choosing your word, you will want to check out my NEW Word of the Year Worksheet! I am Going to Rise!...

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I’ve Become a Crazy Bag Lady with an On-the-Go Lifestyle and Keeping these Items on Hand Helps Me Do it All! Lately, I’ve been feeling like the bag lady. I went from never carrying a purse to being defined by the bag that I am carrying at the moment on my on-the-go lifestyle. My large, colorful...

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Valentine’s Day has never been a big, dramatic production at our house, meaning there are no gifts, big bouquets of flowers being delivered at my house or fancy date nights at hotels (not that I would ever turn those things down 😉 ). That doesn’t mean we don’t love to celebrate though because, of course, The...

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Living a reality that I never thought possible and grieving for both a mother and a grandmother as I became a Momless Mom. It’s taken me awhile to write this post and then even longer to finally publish. Partially because I had been attempting (and somewhat failing) to take some time off for maternity leave and...

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Taking Time to #SipJoyfully and Get Back to my Passions! I realized the other day that life had really just become a string of to-do lists. There were things that needed to be done for work, things that needed to be done to settle into our new apartment more, things that needed to be done...

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  Easily get settled into your new home with these moving tips focused on helping the unpacking process go quickly! Bryan and I just completed our 5th move in 4 years. We are officially no longer living in the city of Chicago and are back in the suburbs, a fact that Bryan might be struggling with a...

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Steps to help you actively become more grateful!!! If you follow along regularly with us here, you know that we have been experiencing a season of grief. My mom passed away in March from Pancreatic Cancer, and I took a step back from blogging and social media. Mostly because I needed a break and time to...

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Experiencing the very best and worst of life… On Friday, I shared the hardest post that I ever had to write about my mom passing. Today, I am sharing one of the happiest … Bryan and I will be experiencing a big year of change! He has accepted a new position at a new school...

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Tips to help you get through the next couple cold months and fight the winter blues! I am not a winter person. Many people have tried to tell me that it’s mind over matter- if I tell myself over and over again that I like winter, that it will magically forget. Somehow I won’t remember that...

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