5.2 Friday Faves

May 2, 2025

Hi friends! Happy Friday! Whatโ€™s going on this weekend? Liv has a dance competition, so weโ€™re headed up to Phoenix, P has a basketball game, and weโ€™re meeting up with friends for gelato. I hope you have a fun and relaxing weekend ahead! A highlight of the week: it was Maiseyโ€™s 4th birthday! ย We celebrated…

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Sad trombone

Guess who’s glasses-bound for 7 days? They’re about 10 years old, the wrong prescription, and were stretched out to the point where I had to make a little elastic head wrap to hold them onto my nugget. Since my eye was still crying and burning at around noon, I decided to call the eye doc.…

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Baby Recipes 6 months – 1 year

I thought that solid foods would be amazing, but I had no idea. Liv isn’t even eating a ton yet (babies’ main source of nutrition is breast milk or formula until they’re one- everything else is just for funsies), but I get so excited about making her food and teaching her new flavors. This week…

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7/13: Friday Faves

This candle: I almost always have a candle burning, and picked that one up at the BX last weekend for $4. It smells clean and lovely.ย  Baby’s first hummus. I made Liv a plain hummus for dinner last night (just chickpeas, water, a little oregano and garlic) and she went crazy for it. We’ve got…

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Making mom friends

(Bell: friends with everyone, and everything) One of the bonus things about military life is that there is a circle of women, with something in common (husbands who deploy and work long hours), wherever you go. For me, it was especially helpful because Tom and I got married when I was pretty young. I was…

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July 12: Tabata Thursday

Last night was one of those nights where I felt like we had nothing in the fridge to make for dinner. In reality, we had plenty of things to make, but I was hoping to open the fridge and a plate of food would appear. Instead, it was a quick Italian stir fry that took…

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