Chocolate eggs, caviar, and the bird man returns

Hi friends! I hope you’re having a happy Monday and I hope that my friends who were celebrating Easter and Passover this weekend had a beautiful holiday. Our weekend was a whirlwind of family fun and amazing food. Saturday morning, P had a soccer game and I taught a Zoom barre class (thank you to…

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Christmas 2020 recap

Hi friends! Happy Monday and welcome to the blur between Christmas and New Years, where time doesn’t really matter. I personally love this week as a chance to regroup and clean after Christmas festivities – our house is a toy store explosion – and also plan for the upcoming year. While I’m not setting my…

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Thanksgiving 2020 recap

Hi friends! Happy Black Friday 🙂 I hope that my fellow American friends enjoyed a happy Thanksgiving. It was absolutely different this year, but still a wonderful one. I try to maintain a grateful heart as much as possible, and this year I’m feeling extra thankful for our family and our health. I’m so thankful…

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20 healthy 4th of July recipe ideas

Hi friends! How’s the day going so far? I hope you’re having a good morning. I’m working on getting a barre video edited – it will be up in the am!- and catching up on chores before heading out to the pool with the crew. I can’t believe that it’s the last day of June…

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a different kinda Easter

Hi friends! How are you? I hope you’re having an ok morning and hanging in there. <3 I also hope that those who were celebrating Passover and Easter this weekend enjoyed the holiday. It was definitely a bit on the weird side this year, but I feel like we made the most of it. We…

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Merry Christmas

Happy Christmas Eve! To all of my friends celebrating this week, I hope you’re having a beautiful holiday season. I hope you’re surrounded with family, friends, lots of good food, tasty sweet treats, your favorite cocktail, and happy memories. I know the holidays aren’t always holly jolly for everyone, so if you’re going through a…

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the great Harney baking show

Hi friends! How’s the week going? I hope you’re having a lovely one! Thank you so much to those of you who have taken the time to answer this year’s blog survey and also entered the Favorite Things giveaway. Your feedback means the world to me, and helps me plan out the content you want…

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Thanksgiving recap + Black Friday steals

 Hi friends! Happy Friday! I hope that those of you who celebrated yesterday had a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Ours was filled with family, lots of amazing food, and time outdoors. Not much more you could wish for. (Ok, just one thing: that the Pilot could have been here, but alas he was doing that…

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not team Slytherin

Hi friends! Happy Monday! A happy belated Mother’s Day to all of my mama friends out there. I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend. Friday night, the Pilot and P had a special daddy-daughter date while Liv and I went to the pool for movie night. (I felt bad because P really wanted…

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Easter weekend 2019

Hi friends! Happy Monday! Anyone else moving verryyyyyy slowly after the weekend’s festivities? I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Ours was packed with tons of fun:  movie night at the pool with friends miniature golf with the crew a wine and barre girls’ night Easter festivities and Trevor’s birthday celebration at the fair. Friday…

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Happy heart day

Hey hey! How’s the week going? I hope you’re enjoying the day, and happy Valentine’s Day to all of you. My valentine is out of town (again), but I’m excited to celebrate with the little ladies and enjoy Galentine’s dinner with Meg later tonight. Thank goodness he’ll be back later tonight – the girls were…

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