Just another marinara Monday

Hiiiii 😀 How are ya? Hope you had a lovely day <3 Enjoyed reading your comments this morning about budgeting! Some of you are totally on the budget bandwagon, while others, like the college days Gina, just go with the flow 🙂 Don’t let budgets stress ya out though- it can be intimidating at first,…

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A can of worms

I’ve definitely created a monster with the whole baby book thing. I’ve read so many, and continue to read as many as I can. Like I said before, I definitely won’t know what to *really* do or what works for our family until the little Nuggette makes her appearance, but in the meantime, I like…

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Breaking in the new budget

Hiiiiii 😀 Happy Monday to ya. Hope your morning is going well! After I last *saw* you last night, we went over to the madre’s for my stepdad’s bday dinner. My contribution to the feast: Mashed sweet potatoes 🙂 I just baked about 12 organic sweet potatoes at 375* for an hour and 15 minutes,…

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Rookie Mistake

Hi friends <3 How are you? Hope you’re having a wonderful day. Thank you so much for your awesome feedback on this morning’s post. I wasn’t sure if this would happen, but I did end up getting a handful of comments that were political in nature. I do not discuss politics or religion on the…

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“That won’t happen to me”

Back in the day, I would hear about pregnancy symptoms and ailments and just think to myself “oh, that won’t happen to me.” Now that these things are all actually happening… it’s actually kind of funny to think I could avoid it. Some of them aren’t too shabby (like my dry skin) and some are…

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Staycation

Hi friends! How’s your night going? We’re on a little staycation 😀 Back in May, I grabbed up a LivingSocial deal for a one-night resort getaway –thought it would be something fun for the Pilot and I to do- and we discovered that it expired on Monday. Couldn’t let it go to waste, so we…

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A cute little schnoodle

Hi friends! Happy Saturday <3 Hope you’re having a great weekend so far! [Flowers from the Pilot! Le swoon] I was thisclose to calling in sick today. I feel like sadness and death had a baby (ok, I’m being really dramatic, but don’t feel any better than yesterday), but figured I’d soldier through and then…

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Fall and Comfy

Hi friends! How was your Friday? Hope you had a wonderful start to your weekend 🙂 I’m so glad ya enjoyed the restaurant dining post! I utilized those skillz at dinner tonight: [warning: iPhone photos ahead] We ate at Zivaz, which is pretty much like the Mexican version of Pei Wei 😀 Of course, I…

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What time is it?

Ohhhh, I don’t know.. let me check. On maybe this: Source or this: Source or this perhaps? Source Ever since men’s-inspired large watches started to become popular (last fall), I was kind of skeptical. I have small wrists so a lot of them looked like *too much* on me, I use my cell phone to…

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Reader’s Request: Healthy Restaurant Eats

Hi friends! How’s your morning going? It’s Friday!!!!! I’m thinking that makes it a good day already 😉 So this post has been a long time coming –so many requests for this one- but I want to preface it by saying that sometimes going out to eat is a special occasion, or a weekly treat.…

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“Give Me Cookies…

or give me death.” I started saying phrases like this after our Philly trip. We were at Independence Hall, so of course I had to say “Give me liberty, or give me death!” [in some kind of funny weird accent…?] and on the walk back to our hotel, it turned into “Give me lululemon or…

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Papa Pilot

Hey, everybody. Bring on the weekend! I already have one small project lined up… This stroller’s so versatile and dude friendly (read: not pink with rainbows) that Michael Bay would give it a slowmo, close-up in his next blockbuster. Behold:  Source Of course, I’ve gotta transform it from it’s current state: Expect Gina to do…

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