Winter Fashion: No nonsense Tights and Leggings

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No nonsense Tights and Leggings

This is a sponsored post on behalf of myself and Social Spark. All opinions are 100% my own. It's a sad fact that my fashion sense has been left completely ignored for far too long. Exhaustion...

Photo Friday

Santa themed. Enjoy :)

Thanksgiving 2012

We had an unseasonably warm Thanksgiving this year. We were all playing outside with the kids with our light sweaters and gloveless hands. Crazy talk, but it's true. We went to Eric's parent's...

Happy Thanksgiving!

For fun, check out last year's Thanksgiving post. Same girl, same chair, so different.

My Goofball

Ellie is a goof. Old news. I keep my iPhone handy and capture every silly moment that I can. It's great that I can make myself feel better about my iPhone dependency can capture these moments!...

time for a treat.

I become positively giddy over greeting card deals. Take it to the next level and give away a free card? ::happydancehappydancehappydance:: I'm sure you're all aware of Treat, no? Treat is your...

The 21 Month EVERYTHING Regression

Perhaps this is the world evening out the scores for having a relatively easy going toddler until now? Perhaps she has been possessed? Either way, this phase (dear god let it be a phase) is...

A Day of Firsts

Today has been one helluva day for one Miss Eliana. Nothing crazy huge, but still. Proud as heck momma right here. For the first time ever, she tried to sing along to a song on the radio on the...

Melissa & Doug Giveaway

Remember yesterday's post about Melissa & Doug's Terrific Twenty Holiday Gifts for 2012? Well, here comes part two. The Giveaway! They are very generously giving away one Whittle World Wooden...

Melissa & Doug Terrific Twenty List and Giveaway

Melissa & Doug has released their Terrific Twenty Holiday Gifts for 2012. It is pretttty awesome, if I fo say do myself. A couple of items currently on my Eliana's wish list are the Scratch Art...

Country Crock Cinnamon Roasted Sweet Potatoes

As we are all pretending not to remember, the holidays are on our tail. Time isn't looking like it's going to grant me that teeny tiny wish about slowing down, so I might as well embrace it now....

Photo Friday

Halloween evening at 8:30pm. #thisiswhyidontgivehercandy

Happy Yabba Dabba Halloween!

I hope all of you had a wonderful Halloween! We kind of just let this one happen. No real plans. Only fake ones. Moving on. It was Eric's idea to dress Ellie as Pebbles Flintstone. I wasn't sold on...

Zoo Boo

The Detroit Zoo's annual "merry-not-scary" Zoo Boo celebration, presented by Michigan Education Savings Program, features a festively decorated half-mile trick-or-treat trail through the front of...

Photo Friday

Chicken Pot Pie Soup

Surprise, surprise. I am sharing another SkinnyTaste recipe. Can't help it, that Gina knows what she is doing! This is by far one of my favorite meals as of late. I had leftovers of it for three...

Tiny Prints Holiday Cards

It is no secret that I advertise autumn as my favorite season. That is, until it gets here and I realize how far away winter is not. Christmas is only 73 days away y'all! Let's talk about Holiday...

Eliana's ER Visit

About 4 weeks ago, Eric was out of town for work. Ellie, Gaia & myself were in the backyard hanging about. Ellie snuck off into a corner of our yard that we seldom visit. It's safe and contained,...

Photo Friday

Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets

Eliana likes chicken nuggets from a drive thru. Okay?! I mean, it's fine. Really. It's not like we get them daily. Maybe only twice a month. And I don't give her the french fries. Or the soda....

Colorado Vacation

Over Labor Day weekend, Eric and I flew into Denver to spend some time with a couple of friends. They used to live in Michigan, but her education and career goals took her to the Rockies. We had...

Anxious and Pessimistic Parenting

So it's no surprise that being a mom is an amazing job. It's fun, full of love, trying, exhausting, etc. So many emotions. Today, I want need to talk about one particular feeling that plagues me....

Ellie's Vocab

Follow my blog with Bloglovin It is a pretty proud feeling to watch your child learn new things, isn't it? Ellie is learning more words each and every week nowadays. She isn't using her words all...

Giveaway - "B" by Sarah Kay - CLOSED

A month or so ago, someone recommended that I watch Sarah Kay's TED Talk titled "If I Should Have A Daughter...". I watched, I smiled, I cried. She inspired me to be a better mother which is not a...

Autumn Banana Republic Wish List

Autumn is almost upon us and I am giddy with excitement. The chill in the air, the cider, the soup, the clothes! I am by no stretch of the imagination running a fashion blog, but I do enjoy it and...

Cruisin'

Do you remember last year's post of the same title? Need a refresher? Check it out here. Every year in Metro Detroit, a weekend in August is dedicated to the Woodward Dreamcruise. The Friday prior,...

Summer Vegetables with Sausage and Potatoes

Have you heard of Skinnytaste.com? I am sure you have, but if not, you should click on that link (once you're done here, of course) and check it out. A ton of yummy AND low calorie meals. It is...

Colorado

I am most definitely not happy dancing at my dinner table as I write this. That would be silly and I am a mature and composed young lady. Now that we got that out of the way... A couple of our...

Day 1

So a few months ago, I participated in a fitness challenge with some fellow moms I am honored to call my friends. It was two months long and I was happy with the results. I counted calories and...