Friends! I cannot believe that I am just sharing this recipe for the absolute BEST classic chili on my blog considering it was the very first recipe I ever posted on my first food blog back in November 2008! THE BEST CLASSIC CHILI RECIPE This is a simple, classic chili recipe that my dad has [...]
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Recent Eats + I Tried Factor Meals
February 4, 2024Hey, hey! I have lots of delicious eats coming for you in this post but I also wanted to report on trying Factor Meals for the first time. I don’t know about you guys but I’ve been seeing Factor Meals everywhere from ads on socials to my neighbor’s front porch. A friend of mine was [...]
My Only February Goal
February 2, 2024Happy Friday! It’s a crazy gorgeous day here in Charlotte – 66 and sunny. I’ve had Finn out of school and home with me for the last two days since he was sick on Wednesday. Thankfully, he’s made a remarkable comeback but we’re keeping him out of school until next week so that he can [...]
Life Lately
January 31, 2024Well, I was supposed to be writing this post from my grandmother’s couch in Florida but as seems often be the case with all things in life…the plan changed. I picked Finn up from school today and instead of heading to the airport, we headed home. The moment I laid eyes on him, I knew [...]
Slow Cooker Mississippi Pot Roast
January 29, 2024This slow cooker Mississippi Pot Roast recipe couldn’t be easier or more delicious. While it features just five ingredients, it’s absolutely full of flavor. Perfect for a simple family dinner or to prep for heat-and-eat meals throughout the week. This roast is so versatile and can offer many different great meals! SLOW COOKER MISSISSIPPI POT [...]
Friday Favorites – Food Finds Edition
January 26, 2024TGIF – this week was a bit of a doozy but I’m still standing and it’s the weekend so all is good. Last weekend I pulled a few food items out of the fridge/freezer/pantry to share with y’all. These are products that I’ve been enjoying recently and they run gamut from snacks to soups to [...]
Five Days In The Life
January 22, 2024Hi friends. I hope your week is off to a solid start. I feel that lately my more personal posts have been very activity heavy between the holidays and our ski trip so I thought for this post it might be nice to share a very low-key five-day stretch with Finn that included a 2.5 [...]
20 Meals I’ve Eaten Recently
January 17, 2024Hello and welcome to my first recent eats round up in forever! I think my last one was pre-Thanksgiving and that is just far too long to go without sharing delicious meals with you. Let’s dive right in. BREAKFAST Our favorite banana egg white oatmeal with cottage cheese, golden raisins and blueberries. Topped with peanut [...]
Winterplace Review: Our Fun Ski Weekend in West Virginia
January 12, 2024Friends! I am so excited to share this Winterplace review with you. Finn and I spent last weekend in the mountains of southern West Virginia enjoying all that Winterplace Ski Resort has to offer and we had the BEST time! Seriously, I have been smiling all week thinking about how much fun we had together [...]
Feeling Brand New
January 2, 2024Hi friends! Happy New Year! I hope 2024 is off to a great start for you! I had a nice holiday break and enjoyed lots of quality time with Finn as well as needed downtime. I think I slept more in the week between Christmas and New Year’s than I did the whole rest of [...]
A 7-Day Movement Challenge for 2024!
December 31, 2023Happy New Year’s Eve! I hope that you are able to enjoy exactly the day that you need to wind down 2023. My plan is to get some work done on the computer, start to de-Christmas my house, walk with Virginia, spend a couple of hours with Finn (yay!) and a NYE dinner with friends. [...]
All The Holiday Things
December 27, 2023We are squarely in the middle of that weird week between Christmas and New Year’s where schedules and routines have completely gone by the wayside and time doesn’t seem to make any sense. And I’m loving it. As Buddy the Elf would say, “I thought maybe we could make ginger bread houses, and eat cookie [...]
2023 Christmas Crushers – 10th Anniversary!
December 25, 2023Merry Christmas friends! I’m popping in quickly to share your 2023 Christmas Crusher Workouts. It’s hard to believe but this is the 10th anniversary of these holiday themed workouts! The Christmas Crusher tradition started back in 2014 when I created a holiday-themed workout for my personal training clients. We had so much fun with it that [...]
The Most Wonderful Holiday Hustle
December 19, 2023Hello, hello. I hope you guys are well. I’m coming off a stretch of four consecutive nights row of holiday parties/gatherings/celebrations so it feels nice to be cozy at home and cooking myself a meal tonight. Pork tenderloin, roasted sweet potatoes and roasted brussel sprouts are on the menu. I plan to watch a mindless, [...]
What I Bought At Trader Joe’s + Kicking Off The Week
December 12, 2023Hi friends! I hope your week is off to a solid start. I know this time of year tends to be a lot so no matter where you fall on the scale between merry merry and bah humbug – I see you. My week started out with my best sourdough bake in many months. Sometimes [...]
Holly Jolly Weekend: Pajama 10k, Holiday Lights, Cookie Baking and more!
December 11, 2023Finn and I had a holly jolly weekend and I can’t believe we’re just two weeks out from Christmas. Personally, I’m trying to focus on enjoying the whole of the holiday season and and not put all the emphasis on the actual day. I like making the time between Thanksgiving and New Years fun and [...]
This Week + 15 Podcast Episodes I’ve Loved Lately
December 7, 2023Hello and I hope it’s been a good week for you guys. The main focus of today’s blog post is 15 podcasts that I’ve listened to recently that are worth sharing but before we jump into that – here are a few photos from the week. A reminder to visit your local farmers market during [...]
The Jen Eddins Fitness App is FINALLY Here!
December 3, 2023Today is a big day – the Jen Eddins Fitness App is FINALLY HERE! I have been working for over a year to create this app for y’all. I poured my heart and my 15 years of experience in the fitness industry into creating an app that offers the BEST of what I love to [...]
A Week In The Life
December 1, 2023I can’t believe another Friday is already here. How time flies! We arrived home from Florida on Monday evening and I jumped right into a full workweek with 15 client training sessions and four yoga classes and one yoga private. It was very nice to have six full days off from training and teaching but [...]
Thanksgiving 2023
November 25, 2023Happy Black Friday. I hope it was a wonderful Thanksgiving for those of you celebrating. And if it wasn’t, I see you too. Some years are like that and I’ve had my fair share of them. I spent Thanksgiving in Florida with Finn, my parents and my grandmother. I was thinking back yesterday while chatting [...]
Life-y Life
November 19, 2023Hello my friends. I am sitting down to write this post by Christmas tree light. I think this is the earliest that I have ever put up my tree but it worked best from a timing/logistics standpoint. We are traveling for Thanksgiving and won’t get back until the Monday after. Finn will be with his [...]
Friday Favorites: 20 Advent Calendars for Everyone!
November 10, 2023Happy Friday! I thought I would theme today’s Friday favorites post around advent calendars for everyone. I got a really cool (and educational!) advent calendar for Finn last year and we both looked forward to each day’s new surprise. Now is the time to order your advent calendar so that you’re ready to kick off [...]
On Being Okay if it Happens and Okay if it Doesn’t
November 6, 2023While I am not quite ready to pull out the Christmas decorations (still have to get Halloween out of my yard…), I do have my first Christmas candle of the season burning tonight and it smells delightful. It’s the cedar balsam candle from Trader Joe’s. I stashed it away last year and I sure do [...]
Best Ever Pumpkin Bread Recipe
November 4, 2023I have baked a lot of pumpkin flavored things in my 15 years of food blogging and I am here to tell you that the pumpkin bread recipe that I am sharing today might just take the number one spot. Once it cooled enough for me to slice off my favorite piece – that super [...]
Halloweekend Extravaganza
October 30, 2023Hello on Halloween eve from the other side of a jam-packed and very fun Hallweekend. I can’t believe we still have one more day to go with Halloween being tomorrow. We have been living our best fall lives over here! Typically on the weekends that I have Finn I try to plan for one fun [...]