5.9 Friday Faves

May 9, 2025

Hi friends! Happy Friday! Whatโ€™s going on this weekend? Liv has her last dance convention of the year, P has a couple of basketball games, and weโ€™re getting ready for our European adventures. I.canโ€™t.even.wait. I feel like Iโ€™ve been majorly slacking on everything and my goal is to record a bunch of podcast interviews before…

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Why and how to meditate

Breathe in, breathe out. Wait, if Iโ€™m thinking about breathing, Iโ€™m not really mediating. Shoot. Silence. Think of silence. What are we having for dinner tonight? Oh yeah, lasagna. Stop, be quiet. Meditate. Om shanti. I love when they sing that at the end of yoga class. What time is yoga tomorrow? Be quiet. Meditate.…

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photoverload

(I was going to name this post something like โ€œLet me find my crafting scissorsโ€ or something like that, but I couldnโ€™t even think of a *tool* I could insert into the title. Let this be a testament of my non-craftiness.) Hi friends! Howโ€™s the morning going? The day is going well over here! Iโ€™ve…

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Baby registry must-haves and everything we're glad we saved for baby #2! www.fitnessista.com

Registry must-haves

(the things we registered for and got a ton of use, and also stood the text of time!) One of the fun yet intimidating aspects of my first pregnancy was trying to figure out our baby registry and what we needed to prepare for Livโ€™s arrival. Of course, all a baby really needs is to be…

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Reader’s request: What’s the difference between traditional strength training and endurance training?

and do you need both? Hi friends! Howโ€™s the morning going? Hope youโ€™re enjoying the day so far. Itโ€™s barre time for this girl, and Iโ€™m also trying to figure out when to take my gestational diabetes test this week. Thereโ€™s never a *good* time, so I might as well get it over with as…

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Found & Lost

Did you ever lose something and were convinced your house ate it? My favorite Joeโ€™s jean shorts went missing a couple of months ago and I looked EVERYWHERE. I seriously dug up everything in the closet to make sure I didnโ€™t put them away somewhere weird. I wear them all the time and was convinced…

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