TGIF – 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 [...]
Friday I’m In Love
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Some Friday Favorites
October 20, 2023 { 7 comments }Hi friends. I’m cozied up on the couch with hot tea, a blanket and the first episode of season five of Love Is Blind on in the background. I had a good week but I am feeling a little run down at the end of it so the plan is to take it very easy [...]
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Friday Love
April 20, 2023 { 6 comments }Hello friends! I hope you’ve had a solid week. I am wrapping up my busiest week of personal training in well over five years and feeling very grateful for that. My number one “reason why” when it comes to fitness is empowering women around their strength, and I have the most amazing roster of female [...]
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Friday Love
April 14, 2023 { 0 comments }Happy Friday! I hope it’s been a good week for y’all. Per usual, mine passed in a blur of teaching, training, calls, meetings, content creating and momming. All the best things and my cup is so full right now. I feel like I’ve truly hit my stride in 2023 for the first time since pre-COVID [...]
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Friday Faves: Spring Beauty Finds + Bulletproof + A Stair Race
March 24, 2023 { 3 comments }We’ve made it to Friday! I’m off to the gym to train a few clients, followed by a much needed hair cut and color and then back to the gym for updated headshots. You better believe I scheduled that hair appointment around the headshots. ;) I have a few Friday favorites for you today. They [...]
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7 Friday Favorites
February 17, 2023 { 11 comments }TGIF! I am rolling into the weekend with my sidekick in tow. I picked Finn up around noon today and we spent the afternoon walking/scooting with the pups, baking cookies, prepping sourdough (aka “mommy bread”) for baking tomorrow morning and laughing our faces off at ridiculous SnapChat filters. Keeping it extra light on this Friday [...]
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Friday Favorites + Podcasts I’ve Been Loving
November 4, 2022 { 4 comments }Good morning and happy Friday. Overall, we’ve had a great week but our Friday is off to a bit of a rough start. Finn was playful and energetic yesterday and went to bed happy but he woke up in the middle of the night with a 101.5 fever. I’m always surprised by how quickly viruses [...]
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What I’ve Been Listening To + Watching Lately
August 11, 2022 { 11 comments }Hello, my friends. We are wrapping up the best beach week in Florida. I let Finn stay up way past his bedtime tonight and I’m staying up past mine to try and soak up every last minute of relaxing in my happy place. :) I can’t resist sharing this photo of Finn that I snapped [...]
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Friday Favorites From Florida
August 5, 2022 { 9 comments }I am winding down on this Friday night on my grandmother’s couch in Florida. WE MADE IT TO FLORIDA! Me and my little travel buddy flew out of Charlotte early Thursday afternoon and arrived in Fort Walton Beach right around 2p thanks to the change to Central time. Short flights with Finn are a breeze [...]
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Weekend Favorites
June 3, 2022 { 12 comments }Happy weekend my friends. I am wrapping up over a week of family time between our trip to Florida and having my mom travel back with us. I’m going to keep it light and share a round up of favorite things that is truly all over the place. I’ve got everything from my mom’s clinic [...]
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Weekend Favorites: Daylight Savings Time Edition
March 13, 2022 { 2 comments }Happy Sunday and happy Daylight Savings Time. I didn’t much mind losing an hour of sleep last night given that I was in bed reading at 11p last night (I’m reading The Paris Apartment) and slept until 8a this morning. I am very much looking forward to the extended daylight. I’ve noticed a significant shift [...]
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Friday Favorites (And Not Favorites)
October 22, 2021 { 34 comments }Happy Friday. I am packing up to head to Tennessee to lead yoga teacher training at VIDYA this weekend. I haven’t seen my group in almost six weeks so I’m looking forward to diving back in with them. We have much to cover this weekend and it’s going to be a good one! I’m also [...]
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Friday Favorites
September 17, 2021 { 8 comments }Happy Friday! After 10 days in a row of teaching yoga and strength classes and leading yoga teacher training, I am ready for a few days off this weekend! I’ll be hanging out with Finn, working on recipe development for some partnerships and watching the Georgia Bulldogs. This is also the last weekend that the [...]
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5 Favorites From This Week
May 21, 2021 { 4 comments }Happy Friday friends! I had such a nice week. It was great to be settled back in Charlotte after a lot of travel. My week was full of Finn, friends, teaching, the pups and work and it felt perfect. Here are a five of my favorite things from the week! WALKS WITH THE PUPS For [...]
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Checking In From Tennessee + Weekly Workouts + New Food Favorites
February 27, 2021 { 12 comments }Hello and happy weekend. I’m writing this post from my hotel bed in Tennessee while watching Great British Baking Show on Netflix and drinking Tazo Dream Tea (highly recommend). I’m REALLY excited about reading and going to sleep after I finish writing this post. I’m here for weekend four of our 200-hour yoga teacher training at [...]
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Jump Around
February 19, 2021 { 4 comments }TGIF friends. I hope that this post finds you dry and warm. What a scary and difficult week it’s been for so many dealing with the impacts of winter storms. If you’re looking for a meaningful way to offer assistance to those struggling, here’s a message from Brene Brown’s Instagram. She is a Texan whose [...]
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Almost Friday Favorites
January 28, 2021 { 16 comments }Hello, hello! Today is a very important day…it’s my dad’s birthday! I wish that we could be there to celebrate him but hopefully we will have a belated celebration soon. My parents and my grandmother have all had their first vaccine so there is hope for a visit in the near future. I have to [...]
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A Few of My Favorite Things (12.4.20)
December 4, 2020 { 9 comments }I don’t write “favorites” posts very often but I know it’s time when I find myself keeping a running list of things in my head that I “have to tell you guys about.” In this case, I actually made a list in the Notes app on my phone because I had so many ideas for [...]
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Friday + Five Podcasts to Listen To
September 11, 2020 { 8 comments }Hello and happy Friday. It’s a weird Friday, isn’t it? 9/11 is always a tough day and the fires in the west are so unsettling. I hope all of you are safe in your homes and your hearts today. I had a lovely start to the day with lots of Finn snuggles and a walk [...]
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Friday I’m In Love
July 24, 2020 { 2 comments }Happy Friday! I wanted to take a moment to thank y’all for the great feedback and suggestions on my last post. If you are also feeding a toddler, DEFINITELY go and read the comments. There are great ideas and resources there. I’ve got quite a diverse round up of Friday favorites for you today. It’s [...]
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Friday Check-In + Favorites
April 10, 2020 { 9 comments }Finn left to spend the weekend with his dad at noon today and I proceeded to eat a donut and some turkey, cheese and avocado roll ups for lunch and then lounged in bed for three hours. I took a short nap and then worked on my laptop and phone for a bit. I love [...]
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Friday I’m In Love: Puffins, Expressie, Tulips + More
February 28, 2020 { 5 comments }Happy, happy Friday. This day was a great end the week and I am currently parked on the couch with Zoey watching Love is Blind on Netflix. This time next week, Finn and I will be in Florida and I cannot wait after our last trip was postponed. :) It’s a random but fun list [...]
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Friday I’m In Love + Welcome Back Scrunchies
November 15, 2019 { 2 comments }I have seriously been wanting to write about scrunchies for over a month now because they’re BACK and I’m excited! First let’s rewind to the summer when I was leading teacher training at Charlotte Yoga. I had quite a few cool, hip ladies in my training who were much younger than me. I noticed that [...]
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Friday Favorites: Fall Activities + Den Refresh
November 1, 2019 { 4 comments }Happy Friday friends. I hope you had a great Halloween! Sadly, we didn’t get to participate in any neighborhood Halloween festivities because we had a 5p flight to Florida but we ended up not missing much. My neighbor friends told me it stormed from 5:30-7:30p so the normal Halloween fun didn’t really happen. It was [...]
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Friday I’m In Love
October 11, 2019 { 9 comments }I hope this finds you enjoying your Friday. I am checking in with a quick Friday favorites round-up before I hit the road for Asheville for the first weekend of my 300-hour yoga teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center! The very first favorite that I want to share is that Zoey is 100% okay. She’s [...]
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Hello Friday. Hello August.
August 2, 2019 { 12 comments }Happiest of Fridays and happy August! I’m not sad to say goodbye to July. It was HOT! I am definitely not trying to rush fall but we’re smack in the middle of those summer days in the south that are so hot and humid that you feel trapped inside most afternoons. And that’s hard with [...]
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Friday Faves + Going Gray
July 12, 2019 { 14 comments }I hope Friday is off to a great start for you guys! Finn and I traveled to Florida yesterday afternoon to spend the weekend with my family. We haven’t visited since May so my grandmother couldn’t wait to see how much he’d grown and changed…and to see him walking in person! He is getting super [...]
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Friday I’m In Love
April 26, 2019 { 2 comments }Happy Friday y’all! I felt like a little bit of a disaster this week juggling motherhood, work and general life stuff. Too many balls up in the air but it’s a blessing of a challenge to have. Hoping to get myself organized and on track over the weekend. :) My first order of business this [...]
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Friday I’m In Love
March 7, 2019 { 45 comments }Hi. Thursday nights are always a little “catch my breath” after teaching five yoga classes at three different studios in the span of 27 hours. When I first came back to teaching in January I felt a bit ungrounded and overwhelmed but with every week that passes and I am getting more in the groove [...]
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Loving Lately: ALL OVER THE PLACE!
February 28, 2019 { 13 comments }Hi! It’s been a week over here. Not a bad one but just a lot of moving pieces. My biggest accomplishment of the week was getting my taxes off to my accountant. I always forget that business taxes are due a month before personal so I was scrambling to pull everything together ASAP. Taxes can [...]
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Do-Si-Do or Samoas?
February 1, 2019 { 8 comments }Hello and happy Friday. I’m happy to report that my pace of life has slowed WAY down since the last time we chatted. I’m also happy that it’s currently 58 degrees outside and sunny and tomorrow is going to be 62! As soon as Finn wakes up from his nap we are going to head [...]
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Friday Things + Faves
September 21, 2018 { 3 comments }Hi. I brought my laptop to bed with me last night with the intention of blogging…and then I snuggled Finn and watched Shameless instead. I’m always amazed by how tired I am by the end of the day even though it sometimes feels like I’m not doing a whole lot. My grandmother keeps reminding me [...]
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Friday Things + Faves
August 30, 2018 { 12 comments }It’s 10:30 on Thursday night and I’ve got a sleeping baby in my room along with a golden retriever who has curled herself into a ball on one of Finn’s activity gym play mats. I’ll let you guess which pup. Today was a good day. I made some last-minute Labor Day Weekend plans that I’m [...]
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Friday I’m In Love: Dogs + Babies, DockATot, Collagen and Nutista Giveaway
July 19, 2018 { 276 comments }It’s been a while since I shared Friday favorites so I thought it would be a nice way to wrap up the week. Bonus, there is a giveaway in this post for some delicious nut butter so don’t miss that. :) I hope you have the happiest Friday and that it’s the start of a [...]
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Friday Favorites: Blogger Edition
June 22, 2018 { 25 comments }I can’t really say TGIF today because as I mentioned earlier this week, all of my days currently blur together and feel the same, but I know many of you are probably very pumped about the first Friday of the summer! A couple of days ago I received a request to write a post about [...]
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Friday Things + Friday Faves
June 1, 2018 { 26 comments }Happy Friday! Although these days I don’t really know what day it is…they’re all a blur. Also, happy first day of June. I feel like the first five months of this year really flew by being pregnant and I have no doubt that the rest of the year will be the same. I’m really trying [...]
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Weekend Favorites + This Week’s Dinner Menu
April 15, 2018 { 10 comments }I hope this finds you enjoying a Sunday full of coffee, good food and relaxation. My Sunday has been slow and lazy to start but I’m hoping to get in some sort of a workout and grocery trip after writing this post and then we have our studio baby shower later this afternoon. So, I [...]
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Friday I’m In Love: Folly Edition
February 23, 2018 { 10 comments }Good morning, happy Friday! From Folly Beach! I’m spending a long weekend here with some of my girlfriends as part of a partnership I’m doing with HomeAway. The house we’re staying in is cute, updated and DOG FRIENDLY (!!!!!!) so if you’re looking for a spring getaway, here is the link! I’ll have a full [...]
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Friday I’m In Love
February 9, 2018 { 5 comments }Happy Friday. I have quite the random collection of Friday favorites to share with you today. FRESH PAINT As I mentioned in a previous post, I am living in a rental house right now that I love for the overall flow, space and neighborhood but NOT for the point colors. Since it’s a rental, I [...]
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Wild Friday Faves
November 10, 2017 { 5 comments }Happy Friday! I want to start this post out by with a big Veteran’s Day shout out to everyone who has served in the Armed Forces. THANK YOU for your sacrifice and service. My mom worked for the VA for many, many years in various capacities surrounding mental health and I am grateful that it [...]
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Friday Five
October 27, 2017 { 6 comments }HAPPY FRIDAY! I have a fun “five themed” post for you today that came to me during my run today. I do a lot of blog brainstorming in my head during runs. :) CURRENT FAVORITE RUN DISTANCE: 5 MILES Today’s 5 mile run was the catalyst for the format of this post. I don’t know [...]
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FlyWheel Friday + This & That
October 6, 2017 { 23 comments }Not that I ever like to wish time away but it sure is nice to see the arrival of the weekend after the week we’ve had. I taught my Friday morning hot yoga class and then met Virginia to take a FlyWheel class. We took Jenna B’s class and it was my first time taking [...]
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15-Minute Bodyweight Workout + Friday Favorites
September 22, 2017 { 15 comments }Happy first day of fall! In typical southern fall fashion, the high in Charlotte is 88 degrees today but it looks like we’ll get a break and see those fall temperatures in about a week or so. The pups will be very happy about that! It’s been a while since I wrote a Friday favorites [...]
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Fun Deliveries and Faves + Hide The Snacks!
June 9, 2017 { 11 comments }Happy Friday! I wanted to write this post first thing this morning but a security plugin on my blog somehow flagged me and denied me access to my own site. My email chain with my tech guru Isaac is about 20 deep right now. I seriously don’t know what I would do without him…probably quit [...]
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February Faves + Smart Shoes + be Runa Giveaway
February 17, 2017 { 137 comments }Happy Friday! I fell off the Friday favorites bandwagon a few months ago when I started to share my recent eats on Fridays instead. I have a random mix of things to share today so I thought I’d make it a “February Favorites” kind of thing. I also have a giveaway for you! Let’s get [...]
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I Baked Sourdough Bread + Other Favorite Things
November 10, 2016 { 17 comments }As most of you know, when I visit my parents my dad always sends me home with two loaves of homemade sourdough bread. I carefully transport it back to Charlotte with me like it’s precious cargo. It almost always gets a second look from security but they just end up threatening to confiscate it because [...]
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Friday I’m In Love: National Dog Day, Music, Nut Butter & More
August 26, 2016 { 6 comments }Happy Friday! This week was really good but NUTS in the way that the week after vacation always is. Plus, it’s been a weird week in Charlotte with kids getting ready to go back to school. I can tell that parents are in a “camps are over, vacations are over, need these kids back in [...]
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August 2016 Beauty Faves
August 4, 2016 { 14 comments }My content is usually themed around getting sweaty but today we’re going to talk getting pretty. I’m sharing some of my favorite beauty discoveries of the summer. Get ready because I finally jumped on the dry shampoo bandwagon, joined the cult of BB cream and I’m pretty sure I’ve discovered the world’s best hair dryer. Here’s a [...]
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Friday I’m In Love: Goldens, Figs and Instagram
July 22, 2016 { 12 comments }This is an extra happy Friday for me because I’m leaving on a mini-vacation tomorrow for my annual pilgrimage to Sunset Beach with my BFF Dorie’s family. (2014, 2015) I can’t wait! I’m going to share a few Friday faves before I get to packing, baking, grocery shopping and nail painting. A Puppy Play Date Two girls [...]
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Friday I’m In Love: July 4th Edition
July 1, 2016 { 4 comments }Happy July 4th Friday! I am sure many of you are off to the lake or the beach for the long weekend, if so have fun! We are hanging out in Charlotte because so many of our staff asked off so we couldn’t add to the sub request mania but we do have plans for [...]