Hi 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 [...]
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All The Holiday Things
December 27, 2023 { 1 comment }We 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 [...]
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The Most Wonderful Holiday Hustle
December 19, 2023 { 2 comments }Hello, 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, [...]
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Thanksgiving 2023
November 25, 2023 { 3 comments }Happy 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 [...]
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Friday Favorites: 20 Advent Calendars for Everyone!
November 10, 2023 { 6 comments }Happy 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 [...]
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10 Great Gift Ideas: Post Holiday Round-Up – 10 Hits & 1 Big Miss
January 9, 2023 { 4 comments }I’m doing things untraditionally this year by sharing a post-holiday gift guide/round-up. While I find some holiday gift guides to be helpful, I mostly feel very overwhelmed by the sheer volume of them in November/December. I did participate in the madness by sharing a crowd-sourced round up of screen-free gifts for 4 year olds because it [...]
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The Best MDW in Florida
June 2, 2022 { 2 comments }We arrived home our Memorial Day weekend in Florida on Tuesday morning. I edited all of the photos for this post on our flight home but I’m just getting a chance to sit down and write it. Our flight back to Charlotte was at 7a on Tuesday and that is early, early for us! The [...]
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Our Christmas Weekend In Florida
December 28, 2021 { 25 comments }It’s our final night in Florida (which is a bonus night…more on that later in this post) and my grandmother and Finn are sleeping. I should be doing the same but I want to capture our Christmas weekend while I am still in it. This time has been exactly what I needed on many levels [...]
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Life Lately: Holiday Edition
December 20, 2021 { 3 comments }Well, we’ve made it to the holiday week. This one has felt like a marathon, not a sprint for me but I am making the most of it. I spent the morning working on this year’s Christmas Crusher workout. It’s one of my favorite longstanding blog traditions so get ready for a good one! I [...]
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Making Spirits Bright
December 13, 2021 { 9 comments }Last week I was talking with a friend about what Christmas was like for me growing up and what our family traditions were. What started as lighthearted reminiscing quickly turned into memories so vivid they made my eyes well with tears and my heart ache in the best of ways. I can close my eyes [...]
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Holiday Gift Guide: Over 60 Gift Ideas!
December 6, 2021 { 0 comments }This post is written in partnership with Dick’s Sporting Goods, and includes affiliate links. All text and opinions are my own. I’m diving back into holiday gifts today with a full gift guide featuring DICK’S Sporting Goods. I attended a VIP holiday shopping experience event at DICK’s Sporting Goods last week and wow…they truly have gifts for [...]
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Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Cupcakes
December 3, 2021 { 1 comment }The holiday season is officially here and I am so excited to share these Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer cupcakes with you. The first thing that I have to tell you that while these cupcakes are adorable and so festive, they are not difficult to make. I promise! I am not the crafty type at [...]
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My Top Holiday Gift Picks from Sierra (Pups, Finn, Friends and More!)
December 1, 2021 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by LTK and Sierra. The opinions and text are all mine. I am a notorious last-minute holiday shopper. I cannot remember a year in my adult life that I was not out on Christmas Eve finishing up my shopping and I’m ALWAYS wrapping late into the night. As much as I’d [...]
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Thanksgiving Weekend: Turkey Trot, Dinner for One, Holiday Decorating + More
November 28, 2021 { 3 comments }I hope that all of my U.S. readers have had a nice holiday weekend. My Thanksgiving plans were really up in the air and I ended up staying in Charlotte. Finn and I were hoping to make it down to Florida to spend Thanksgiving with my grandmother but my parents are still in Durham and [...]
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First Day of Preschool + The BEST Labor Day Weekend!
September 7, 2021 { 5 comments }Hey guys! I hope that you had a great Labor Day weekend and that your short week is off to a good start. FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL! It’s a big day over here! Finn started preschool this morning! I don’t have one of those fancy signs and his clothes are a bit wrinkled but my [...]
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A Christmas That I Won’t Forget
December 27, 2020 { 4 comments }Well, Christmas 2020 was definitely one that I won’t forget. It wasn’t bad by any means, it was just very different and really quiet. As I mentioned in my post the week before Christmas, we didn’t travel to see my family and Finn was with his dad the week leading up to Christmas. It was [...]
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Mom Life Lately
December 8, 2020 { 4 comments }Hi there. I am eating a big salad for lunch as I type this post. I can’t wait to share my latest salad combo with you guys in my next recent eats post. It’s a really good one! I taught a class in-studio at VIBE5 this morning and it was my first time teaching strength [...]
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Flow With Your Feelings This Holiday Season {lululemon gift guide}
December 7, 2020 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by lululemon and ShopStyle. One of the most useful lessons that I ever learned from my therapist is that it’s okay, healthy and normal to experience two seemingly contradictory emotions or feelings at the same time. I can be grieving while and still laughing and feeling happiness. I can be disappointed [...]
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Feeling The Holiday Spirit
November 29, 2020 { 7 comments }Hi everyone. I hope that you’ve been enjoying your weekend whether it’s been a relaxing one or busy with shopping and decorating. I got my tree up last night with only one minor hiccup. Somehow the base to my tree didn’t make it to the new house in the move but I was able to [...]
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A Grateful Heart
November 26, 2020 { 5 comments }Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating the holiday today. I know that many of you are missing family and traditional celebrations as we all work to navigate this unprecedented time in life. My family made the difficult decision to not see each other for Thanksgiving this year. While I know it was the right [...]
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Temporary Relocation
July 6, 2020 { 8 comments }Hi there. I have changed locations since you last heard from me on the Fourth of July. :) More on that in a second but here’s a quick overview of my super low-key holiday. After publishing my last blog post, I had my car washed, cleaned up around the house, did a driveway workout (details [...]
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Christmas 2019 in Florida
December 26, 2019 { 4 comments }Christmas 2019 is a little over one hour away from being a wrap and I’m sitting in the dark in the guest bedroom at my grandmother’s condo typing this post while Finn sleeps in the pack and play. Our Christmas Day started at the early hour of 5:40 but I’m finding myself holding onto the [...]
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Holiday Gift Guide: 50+ Gifts Ideas for Almost Everyone on Your List!
December 9, 2019 { 1 comment }It’s time for my fourth annual holiday gift guide. Every year I put together one post with lots of holiday gift ideas for almost everyone on your list. I realize that some of you have likely completed your holiday shopping by now. This holiday gift guide is for my fellow shopping procrastinators. Every year I think [...]
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Little Man Down + Favorite Holiday Cookie Recipes
December 3, 2019 { 6 comments }Good morning. I am waking up to a quiet house this morning. My mom flew out last night and Finn spent last night with his dad. Definitely a bit of an empty feeling after a week of having my mom with us. Speaking of little man, he is down for the count. I took him [...]
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A Beautiful Day
November 29, 2019 { 2 comments }Thanksgiving 2019 was maybe the most relaxing Thanksgiving of my adult life! I enjoyed spending the day in the kitchen preparing a meal for two, a long walk with Zoey and an evening at the movies with my mom. I had hopes of sleeping in but woke up shortly before 7a. I made my way [...]
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LDW
September 3, 2019 { 3 comments }It was a weird Labor Day weekend. It was my first weekend in Charlotte that I didn’t have Finn in months where I wasn’t leading teacher training, a yoga workshop or traveling for work. Honestly…I do not love these weekends and appreciate the distraction of work to get through to picking up Finn on Sunday. [...]
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Red, White and Happy
July 5, 2019 { 12 comments }Happy Friday…although today feels like any day other than Friday. My days are all so mixed up between travel and the Fourth of July. I had a quiet but lovely July Fourth. I taught two morning hot yoga classes, went for a three mile BLAZING HOT run, picked up Finn and hung out at home [...]
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Florida + Family + The New Year
January 2, 2019 { 7 comments }After a 2018 that was all over the map, I had the absolute best end of the year and beginning of the new one. I woke up on this first day of 2019 feeling full of hope, energy, creativity, possibility and love. For the first time in a year, I arrived back in Charlotte tonight [...]
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Holiday Week Eats
December 30, 2018 { 3 comments }Happy Sunday (at least I think that’s what day it is…they all blur together this time of year). We are enjoying our visit to Florida and my nieces just arrived last night so there is lots more fun to be had! :) Here is a collection of things I’ve been eating throughout the course of [...]
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14 Layers of Love
December 26, 2018 { 13 comments }Finn and I hopped on an 8 a.m. flight this morning that put us in Florida by 9 a.m. (There is a one hour time change so that helps a lot when traveling here.) Meeting my parents at the airport has taken on a new level of special since I now have Finn in tow [...]
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Christmas 2018: Friends are Family
December 25, 2018 { 4 comments }I am writing on this Christmas night with a heart full of joy and gratitude. Finn and I take off for Florida tomorrow morning to spend some time with my family but Christmas in Charlotte was truly special this year. Over the years, I have been fortunate to form bonds with some of my friends [...]
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2018 Christmas Cookie Crusher Workout {Gym + Home Versions}
December 20, 2018 { 9 comments }Today was a really good day. It started with a great workout with friends followed by an exciting meeting about my return to teaching yoga in Charlotte in January. I can’t wait to tell you more very soon. The rest of the day involved some work in a coffee shop, cuddles with my boy, a [...]
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Holiday Resources for Food + Fitness
December 18, 2018 { 6 comments }How is Christmas just one week away!? I sincerely hope you are all enjoying a little (or a lot) of merriness this holiday season. I am so glad that I decided to decorate and make the house festive. I kind of never want to take my lights down. My house is one of the sparkliest [...]
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2018 Holiday Gift Guide: Over 100 Gift Ideas For (Almost) Everyone On Your List!
December 4, 2018 { 14 comments }It’s time for my third annual holiday gift guide! Every year I pull together tons of great gift ideas for you into ONE POST (not stretching this out into multiple posts!) to help you find ideas and inspiration for almost everyone on your list. I think this year is my best gift guide yet with [...]
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A Happy and Sad Weekend
December 3, 2018 { 15 comments }Hey friends. I hope your week is off to a great start. I’m backtracking to the weekend for this post…it was a very happy and very sad weekend. Happy because I got all of my Christmas decorations up and my house is feeling festive and sad because the Dawgs lost to Alabama in the SEC [...]
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Thanksgiving in Florida + Finn’s First!
November 23, 2018 { 12 comments }Hi. I hope that those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday had a nice day. Finn and I traveled to Florida on Tuesday evening so that we could spend the holiday with my family. The Charlotte airport was super insane and I was very glad that I finally got TSA pre-check a couple of months [...]
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Best Bodyweight Workouts for Holidays and Travel
November 21, 2018 { 5 comments }Hello, hello! Turkey day is upon us and I know many of you are gearing up for a day of family, friends and food. I also know that many of you are like me and enjoy squeezing in a workout along with your holiday festivities. I have pulled together some of my favorite bodyweight workouts [...]
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Going to the Dark (Pre-Lit) Side
November 15, 2018 { 47 comments }Hi friends. I feel like we haven’t really caught up this week. It’s passed in a flash given that I got home from Tennessee late Sunday night and am turning around and heading back on Friday. Also, between the 5:30 p.m. darkness due to the time change and the four days of cold rain that [...]
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My Pineapple Baby + What I Ate on Halloween
November 1, 2018 { 33 comments }I’m not usually much for costumes and oftentimes lack creativity when it comes to dressing up but the Halloween spirit hit hard for Finn’s first Halloween and I knew just what he should be! FINN’S FIRST HALLOWEEN A pineapple! A food costume was a no brainer and pineapple was the first thing that came to [...]
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Mother’s Day Coffee Chat
May 13, 2018 { 16 comments }Good morning, happy Sunday and happy Mother’s Day. I woke up at 6:30 a.m. feeling pretty rested so I decided to get up and begin my day. I sat outside in meditation for a bit and now I’m enjoying my morning coffee. Since you’re hearing from me this morning, clearly I still haven’t gone into [...]
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“Ugly Dress” Easter Weekend
April 2, 2018 { 60 comments }Good morning. Can I just say that I’m happy that Easter weekend is over? I don’t know what it is about Easter but it’s one of the social media holidays that I sometimes find to be a little triggering when it comes to the whole comparison trap. (Easter 30 YEARS AGO at my grandparent’s house.) [...]
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New Year’s Weekend
January 1, 2018 { 6 comments }Happy New Year! I’m currently watching the Rose Bowl and hoping my Dawgs pull out a win but gosh, it’s been a crazy game. Our New Year’s weekend was a very low-key one. Per usual, it included a lot of yoga. On Saturday I taught at 11:15 and then Dorie and I led a vision [...]
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A Weird Couple Week of Eats + Mentally Dealing with Being “Off Track”
December 30, 2017 { 5 comments }Happy weekend. Wait, it is the weekend right? I feel like I’ve seen versions of this quote all over Instagram this week and it’s pretty accurate! This is such a weird week of the year where everyone seems off their normal routine and feeling out of sorts. I’m not sure if any of you are [...]
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Our Last (for a while!) Quiet Christmas
December 27, 2017 { 5 comments }Hey guys! I have absolutely loved following along on Facebook, Instagram and blogs to get a glimpse of everyone’s Christmas festivities over the last week or so. I was a little bummed not to be seeing my family for Christmas. I considered booking a last-minute flight to Florida but in hindsight I’m so glad I [...]
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A Merry Weekend
December 18, 2017 { 2 comments }Good morning and welcome Monday. Today is an exciting day because my parents finally return home from their 30-day trip. I can’t believe how much I missed being able to pick up the phone and call them. And even though I only see them every 3-4 months or so (hopefully that will be more frequently [...]
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Recent Eats: Pre-Holiday Edition
December 16, 2017 { 4 comments }Happy weekend! I’m enjoying a Saturday morning of hanging out at home catching up on work and baking four loaves of sourdough to give as gifts before I head to the studio to teach at 11:15 and then out for Tanner’s family Christmas this afternoon/evening. Last week was a little rough. I owe you a [...]
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Over 75 Holiday Gift Ideas for (Almost) Everyone on Your List
December 4, 2017 { 11 comments }Okay people, it’s time to report for holiday shopping duty. Last year, I got my gift guide together 17 days before Christmas so I’ve improved slightly this year coming in 21 days prior. I don’t know about y’all but shopping ahead of time is not my strong suit and I’m always doing the “jingle dash” [...]
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Thanksgiving with Two Cute Turkeys
November 23, 2017 { 6 comments }I hope that all of my U.S. readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a really great day here in Charlotte with Tanner’s family and my nieces in town visiting from Georgia. THANKSGIVING 2017 RECAP My alarm went off at the early hour of 5:45 a.m. because I was scheduled to teach a Thanksgiving morning [...]
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What’s Your Dharma? + Memorial Day Weekend 2017
May 30, 2017 { 16 comments }Hi! I hope you guys enjoyed your long weekend and also spent some time reflecting on the bravery and selflessness of our fallen servicemen and women. My message to my yoga classes over the weekend was about finding your dharma and using it to be of service. Your dharma is all about discovering your unique [...]
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Community Updates + New Year’s Weekend Recap
January 2, 2017 { 11 comments }Happy first Monday of 2017. Thank you for your insightful responses about reflecting back on 2016. They were beautiful. A few things to catch you up on before a quick New Year’s weekend recap (it was pretty uneventful). If you’re interested in doing Whole30 with me starting next Monday, January 9, now is the time [...]