Hi and happy Friday. We are drying out from all the rain that Debby dumped on us. It’s been a cloudy and wet week. The grey weather didn’t get me down though because I had an exciting visitor – my dad! While my mom comes to Charlotte a lot and Finn and I make regular [...]
Day in the Life
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Monday Life Chat
April 15, 2024 { 2 comments }Happy new week my friends! It’s a gorgeous morning in Charlotte so I’m treating myself to a patio laptop session at Amelie’s with a half-caf latte (1 shot decaf espresso, 1 shot regular) with whole milk + a strawberry cheesecake tart that I’ll save for dessert tonight. I just wrapped up training clients at the [...]
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A Very “Mom Life Is The Best Life” Kind of Week
March 9, 2024 { 0 comments }Hi from Florida. I booked a last-minute flight to spend a long weekend with my family. Our last visit was Thanksgiving and that seems like forever ago. I really don’t like to go more than 2-3 months without seeing everyone. We were supposed to visit in February but our trip got cancelled the day-of due [...]
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Life Lately
January 31, 2024 { 10 comments }Well, 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 [...]
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Five Days In The Life
January 22, 2024 { 11 comments }Hi 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 [...]
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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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This Week + 15 Podcast Episodes I’ve Loved Lately
December 7, 2023 { 0 comments }Hello 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 [...]
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A Week In The Life
December 1, 2023 { 6 comments }I 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 [...]
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Life-y Life
November 19, 2023 { 1 comment }Hello 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 [...]
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Week In The Life: Working, Momming, Running + More
October 13, 2023 { 2 comments }Happy Friday everyone. I’m enjoying some pre-dawn quiet time with my laptop and a cup of coffee. I got up at 5a this morning to do some writing and computer work because once the sun is up, Finn is up and the day kicks off – it’s going to be go, go, go! I am [...]
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Life Lately: Welcome October!
October 2, 2023 { 0 comments }Happy October! I hope this new month is off to a great start for you. For me, October always kicks off what feels like three months of holiday celebrations with Halloween in October, Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December. I love all of the decorating and festivities. We have had a great time decorating [...]
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Ready for Fall + House Things + Athletic Endeavors
September 14, 2023 { 7 comments }Hi friends. Hope it’s been a great week for you. Well, I caved this week and started to embrace fall. I bought a jar of pumpkin butternut squash sauce at ALDI and cooked my first fall-themed dinner. I also picked up some pumpkin-themed items from ALDI’s Special Buys section – how cute is the doormat? [...]
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Sweet Summertime + Life Lately + Running Thoughts
August 24, 2023 { 3 comments }Hi, hello. I hope it’s been a great week for you. I’ve been keeping very busy with work but also trying to make the most of the last few weeks of summer before school starts back and we tighten up the routine. Here’s a visual representation of our mindset lately, haha. Evening swims and lax [...]
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We Are Overdue A Catch Up
August 4, 2023 { 8 comments }Well, hello. Happy Friday, happy August, happy all the things. I’ve been so MIA from the blog space lately. I’ve had photos for this post edited for a week but I just keep adding to the library and not finding the time to sit down and write a post. Life is full this summer in [...]
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Week In The Life: Full + Filled Up
July 20, 2023 { 2 comments }Hi friends. I hope it’s been a good week for you. If I am honest about where I’m at right now…treading water. I have a lot on my plate this summer professionally between the yoga teacher training that I am taking, planning for the yoga teacher training that I am leading this fall and preparing [...]
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Week In The Life: Mom Visit, Duke Visit + More
July 13, 2023 { 9 comments }Hi friends. The last two nights I have been in bed by 9p but tonight I find myself wanting to get some late evening writing done while the house is quiet. Finn and my mom are asleep upstairs and I have some things to share with y’all. First, did anyone else find this week a [...]
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Wednesday in the Life
June 29, 2023 { 0 comments }It’s been a minute since I wrote a day in the life style of post. In this post I am sharing a detailed recap of what my Wednesday looked like from start to finish. It was a long and very full day – but a good day and an accurate depiction of a day of [...]
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Week In Review
June 23, 2023 { 2 comments }Hi, hello, happy Friday! It’s 9:30p on Friday and I have finally landed myself on the couch with my feet up and it’s glorious. I’m watching the first episode of Glamorous on Netflix and so far, it’s cute and easy. Alrighty. Here’s my week in review. MONDAY Monday started and ended with yoga with yoga [...]
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An Unplugged Start To The Week + A New iPhone
May 4, 2023 { 2 comments }Good morning and happy Thursday my friends. I woke up at 4:15a and there wasn’t going to be any more sleeping so I’m writing this from under a blanket on the couch with my windows open for the cool morning air. The birds chirping, the sun is rising and I’m on my second cup of [...]
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This + That
March 22, 2023 { 2 comments }Good morning and happy Wednesday! Hope you guys are having a great week. I’m writing this post on a break between personal training clients. I started at 6a this morning and can confidently say that I’m finally back in the groove of 5a wake up calls. It took a couple of months to get used [...]
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A Week In The Life
March 19, 2023 { 7 comments }Hi sweet friends. I’m doing some late night writing on a Saturday. The house is quiet, I just made a cup of tea (Trader Joe’s Well Rested) and I don’t feel like turning on the TV. I’ve been wanting to check in here all week but life has been (the good kind of) hectic so [...]
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Happiest Heart Day
February 14, 2023 { 5 comments }Happy Valentine’s Day friends. I had a very sweet day with my sweet boy. Not only was today Valentine’s Day but it was also Finn’s leader day so we did lots of prep on Monday afternoon to prepare. As part of Finn’s leader day, we bring the morning snack for the class. I spent way [...]
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A Week In The Life
January 27, 2023 { 22 comments }Happy Friday y’all! I don’t even know where the week went but somehow I made it to the end of it and am writing this post from my hotel room in Harrisburg, PA. Flight schedules were such that I got in late morning but I don’t teach until 6p tonight. Luckily, I was able to [...]
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A Week In The Life – New Routines + Go Dawgs!
January 12, 2023 { 8 comments }Happy almost Friday. This week has passed in a blur of training clients, teaching yoga and momming. I’ve been establishing some new routines in the new year so it’s been a bit of an adjustment. First, my parenting schedule with Finn changed. This was ultimately a good thing for all involved but a challenge to [...]
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A Week In The Life
December 10, 2022 { 8 comments }Hello and happiest of weekends! I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and that it’s more holly jolly than hustle and bustle. If it’s a hard holiday season for you, I get that too and I’m sending you a whole lot of love and prayers. I am certainly in a very different place [...]
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Mom Life Lately + Fun Charlotte-Area Activities
September 21, 2022 { 1 comment }Good morning and happy Wednesday. I am having a busy week on both work and life fronts but it’s the kind of busy that feels energizing and not draining. I got up early this morning to spend some time drinking coffee and writing before setting off to tackle the day. I have a room parent [...]
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Monday In The Life
August 22, 2022 { 11 comments }It’s been a very long time since I wrote a “day in the life” post. Years, maybe!? It’s no secret to any of us that my posting frequency hasn’t exactly lent itself to getting as granular as an hour-by-hour breakdown of a day but as today wound down, I realized that the way I organically [...]
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A Sweet Week
July 15, 2022 { 5 comments }Hi there. It’s been a solidly good week over here. I got to spend a lot of quality time with Finn, taught some yoga, hung out with my best girlfriends and was fairly productive with work. I have a week’s worth of photos to share of what it all looked like. A trip to the [...]
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Week In The Life
March 18, 2022 { 9 comments }We made it to the weekend! I hope you all have a fun and/or relaxing weekend planned. Finn and I will be heading to Durham bright and early tomorrow morning to visit my parents. It will be Finn’s first time seeing them since we visited in October and went to the N.C. State Fair. We [...]
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Glory, Glory! Dawgs on Top!
January 11, 2022 { 16 comments }Hello to all of you on this fine Tuesday morning. I am drinking all the coffee because I stayed up way too late but but it was 100% WORTH IT! DAWGS ON TOP! Credit: Curtis Compton – AJC Last night I watched my Georgia Bulldogs win our first national championship title since 1980! Glory, glory [...]
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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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Summer Camp Is In Session + Life Lately + Upcoming Events
July 21, 2021 { 9 comments }Hi, hi! I hope y’all are having a great week. My week has felt a little jumbled because I’ve subbed some extra classes and had Finn on a night that I usually don’t but all is good! I have some exciting news… SUMMER CAMP IS IN SESSION Doggie summer camp is in session! Bear arrived [...]
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38 is Great
June 17, 2021 { 22 comments }I celebrated my 38th birthday yesterday! It’s a little trippy to think that I wrote my first birthday recap on my blog 11 years ago on June 17, 20210 when I was turning 27! Look at my sweet Sullie girl. She was just three years old. <3 My 38th birthday couldn’t have been more different [...]
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Week In The Life Without My Sidekick
June 11, 2021 { 2 comments }Hi everyone. We’ve made it to Friday. This has been a really weird and crazy week for me. First, Finn’s been gone since last Saturday on vacation at the beach with his dad. I tried to FaceTime him one day but literally got 30 seconds of his attention before he ran away to play. While [...]
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TGIF + Little Peanut Butter Lover + Pretty Pups
June 4, 2021 { 12 comments }Hi friends! It may have been a short week but it was a doozy of a week! I have had sooooo many conversations with plumbers, HVAC people, painters and roofers. As I mentioned in my Memorial Day Weekend recap, I have to replace the HVAC at my primary residence and then my rental house has [...]
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A Week In The Life – May 2021
May 6, 2021 { 7 comments }Whew, y’all! It’s been one of those weeks where everything has been a little “extra” and many logistically challenging things have been happening at the same time. I made it through, made the best of it and I’m now on the way to New Orleans…which I’ll share more details about at the end of this [...]
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Monday In The Life: Toddler Bedtime, Brooks Hyperion, Breast Health + More
April 12, 2021 { 15 comments }Buckle up for a day in the life Monday. Actually, I want to rewind to Sunday night to start this post. My sweet boy is in a phase right now where he doesn’t want to go to sleep in his bed and wants to sleep in “mommy’s bed.” I put him down in his room [...]
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Weekend + Monday Things
March 29, 2021 { 1 comment }Hello, hello, hello! How was your Monday? Mine was pretty great. I started it with a run and teaching yoga before transitioning to mom mode around noon to get QT in with my boy for the rest of the day. I spent the weekend in Tennessee leading weekend six of our 200-hour yoga teacher training [...]
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Two Days In The Life (with lots of Benji and Zoey)
March 23, 2021 { 13 comments }I hope it’s been a great start to the week for y’all and that you’re enjoying the arrival of spring. My weekend close to home was exactly what I needed to feel set to take on this week. All day on Monday I felt this undercurrent of happiness and gratitude. This is a day-in-the-life style [...]
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(Zombie) Life Lately: Reading, Watching, Pups, Finn + GNO!
February 11, 2021 { 32 comments }I am typing this post and feeling a bit like a zombie right now. I had the worst night of sleep last night. I didn’t stop reading until 12:30a and then woke up at 2:45 and could NOT go back to sleep. My mind was all over the place. I read my Kindle in the [...]
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Monday In The Life
January 20, 2021 { 11 comments }It’s been quite a while since I’ve written a day in the life post so I thought that I would capture my Monday with Finn this week. Typically, our nanny works from 9a until mid-afternoon on Mondays but I gave her the day off since a) I worked all weekend leading yoga teacher training at [...]
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An Unexpected But Fitting End To 2020
January 3, 2021 { 28 comments }Happy New Year! 2020 went out with a bang around here and I wouldn’t have expected anything different. COVID has been making its way through both homes for the last six weeks or so and Finn was the last one to go down. Everyone including his pediatrician was shocked that he got it so much [...]
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Oh What Fun
December 18, 2020 { 8 comments }Happy Friday. It’s hard to believe that Christmas is one week away. In some ways this holiday season has felt extra long and festive because decorating and shopping started so early but in other ways it feels so not like the week before Christmas…especially because I don’t have plans to see my family. Finn left [...]
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A Friday Catch Up
September 18, 2020 { 9 comments }Happy Friday. Finn and I are enjoying a lazy gray day. We slept until almost 8 and didn’t get out of our PJs until almost noon! Our morning was full of soup making, movie watching and snuggling. Given that we have lows in the 40s on deck for the weekend, I decided it was time [...]
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A Week In The Life
June 19, 2020 { 16 comments }Hi guys. How was your week? I would give mine a solid okay. Not bad, but not amazing. Plenty to be grateful for…including a beautiful son, another year older, sweet pups, my best friends, my loving family and work that pushes me to learn and grow every single day. Rather than a “Day in the [...]
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This Is Us
June 14, 2020 { 24 comments }Hello and I hope this finds you enjoying your weekend. I’ve been hanging out with Finn and the pups, staying close to home and spending as much time outside as possible. We are having the best weather – low 80s and low humidity. I’m trying to soak it up before a week of rain heads [...]
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Another Week
April 24, 2020 { 5 comments }And so another week of life in a global pandemic comes to an end. We received news yesterday that our governor is extending stay at home orders until May 8 and news today that schools will be closed for the remainder of the year. I was not surprised to read either announcement. How are you [...]
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Hello from the other side + A peek into my fridge
April 2, 2020 { 12 comments }Hello friends, it’s me…from the other side of the screen but feeling more connected to all of you than ever. Doesn’t make these times easy but it sure does bring me a whole lot of love and strength. To kick things off, I wanted to share something with you that my friend Brittany wrote this [...]
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Day in the Life at 21 Months
February 18, 2020 { 9 comments }Finn turned 21 months today and we are officially three months away from TWO and almost to the end of saying his age in months! I don’t know why but two feels like the cutoff on that for me. (We love these Saucony shoes! They are easy to get on, functional and machine washable.) Finn [...]
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Day in the Life at 20 Months
January 21, 2020 { 24 comments }This was originally supposed to be a post with a recipe for a delicious spaghetti squash casserole that also included a brief “day in the life at 20 months” recap but then the day in the life got a little wordier than I originally planned. Oops! I’ll post the spaghetti squash recipe tomorrow. Finn turned [...]
