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The Sunday Scoop #17

May 12, 2019 No Comments

Happy Mother’s Day everyone! It’s my first official time celebrating the holiday and I couldn’t be more excited, although during fertility treatments I still tried to celebrate for three reasons: one, because over the course of the years trying I had indeed mothered two babies that never made it earth-side and I felt my effort and grief deserved to be celebrated, two, because I believed that although I wasn’t physically a mother yet, the act of working so hard to get there made me one even more so and three, if I didn’t try to make the day joyful than […]

General, Gift Guides, Infertility, Other

Last Minute Mother’s Day Gift Idea

May 9, 2019 No Comments

If there’s one thing I’ve learned so far in my short time being a mother (4 months and counting) it’s that parenthood is just a series of good intentions followed by failures followed by improvising solutions that often turn out better than the original plan. This post is sort of like that. I failed to pull together a mother’s day gift guide round up like I wanted too but came up with last minute idea that I think is even better. Being a mother is hard work and Mother’s Day is intended to celebrate and appreciate that. I know from […]

Beauty, General, Monthly Faves

April Favorites

May 6, 2019 No Comments

Happy May everyone! I’ve got a quick round up of some favorite new product finds from April for you today. I just love finding and trying new products but haven’t been able to do as much of that lately so these happen to be products that were found out of necessity rather than just for fun. Like I ran out of shampoo and face wash and saw recommendations for these at just the right time so I decided to give them a try. You’d think that with staying home with an infant all day every day that I’d have all […]

General, The Sunday Scoop

The Sunday Scoop #16

May 5, 2019 No Comments

Hooray it’s May! The flowers are blooming, the grass is turning green again, the trees are budding leaves and the bunny rabbits are back to inhabiting my backyard – that part’s not so great since they keep killing my grass, but they sure are cute so they can stay for now. *Adding to my list of green alternative searches: rabbit repellant. HA. Anyway, spring just makes me so happy with all the rebirth going on. It’s a living reminder that things change for the good and often get better when we think they won’t. It’s a reminder to listen to […]

General, Infertility, The Sunday Scoop

The Sunday Scoop #15 – NIAW Special Edition

April 21, 2019 No Comments

Hey friends! National Infertility Awareness Week starts today and I’m kicking it off by rebooting my weekly Sunday Scoop posts with a special edition dedicated to Infertility. It’s an important week for me as I was diagnosed with infertility and subsequently went through infertility treatments to conceive my daughter so raising awareness has always been close to my heart. I know from experience that when more people understood what I was going through it was really helpful so if you know someone struggling read up and offer your support! I’ve been collecting articles related to infertility over the last several […]

Beauty, General, Personal Care

Birchbox – Clean Beauty Limited Edition Box

March 26, 2019 No Comments

I feel like Birchbox is one of the OG beauty boxes but I’ve never once purchased one. Partially because when it originally came out I had next to zero extra funds to get a subscription and partially because now the items in the monthly box aren’t necessarily products I would consider using. But I recently saw they had this special Clean Beauty Limited Edition box and it was too good of a deal to pass up. The value of the box is $219 and comes with 10 full size items, 1 travel size item and a rose quartz face roller. […]

Feminine Care, General, Spiritual

Goddess Provisions Box: June

July 19, 2018 No Comments

So…going on vacation to NYC recently reminded me to disconnect from the world for a bit but also made me forget to post about the June Goddess Provisions box. Whoops. I can’t not post about it though because June’s theme was all about sacred womb wisdom and I’m all about tending to the womb being an infertility sister and all. So here I am in mid-July throwing it back to last months box and sharing all the awesome goodies that came in it. These items are for anyone with a womb, or ya know what, really for anyone that wants […]

General, The Sunday Scoop

The Sunday Scoop #14

June 17, 2018 No Comments

Hey, hey, hey! It’s Father’s Day! Sending happy Father’s Day wishes to all the fathers out there, and especially those longing to be fathers, those who’ve lost their fathers, those who are dog fathers and anyone else who want’s father’s day wishes! Like mother’s day, I think those other than current father’s can be forgotten and maybe even more so for this men’s holiday. You know, because men aren’t supposed to have feelings and care about a little holiday, right? Wrong! It can be a tough day for many people, a reminder of what they don’t have or what they’ve […]

Cleaning Products, General, Sustainable Living

Cleaning Favorites: Laundry

June 13, 2018 No Comments

Spring is in full swing, really by this point it’s practically summer, and the temperatures are finally get HOT. It’s finally that time of year when we can open the windows and air everything out after all the gunky cold weather. This changing of seasons for the better always inspires me to improve things around my home and clean things up in my living space too so I’m starting a little series of posts on spring cleaning (or just cleaning since it will officially be summer in a few weeks. Yay!) to highlight all my favorite cleaning products and ways […]

General, The Sunday Scoop

The Sunday Scoop #13

June 10, 2018 No Comments

Happy Sunday friends! I’ve got a very important first order of business today: I have a *GIVEAWAY* happening on Instagram right now that goes until Tuesday so you should check it out and enter and tell your friends to enter too! Yay for giveaways!! Anywho (vote: are you a fan of this word or no?), It seems like it was just a few days ago that I wrote up a Sunday Scoop post (likely because I posted this on Tuesday last week, whoops!). Since it hasn’t been that long I don’t have a ton to share in terms of links […]