Olive Rose Makeup Review: Makeup Your Skin Will Love

February 11, 2025

Sharing my review of Olivedaโ€™s new makeup Skin Tint (a lightweight foundation thatโ€™s great for your skin!) Hi friends, how’s the day going? I hope you’re having a wonderful one. I’m onboarding new 1:1 clients – my new program launches later this month and a couple of friends have already signed up! – and am…

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The best kale chips

Mystery #1: Our lime/orange/grapefruit tree. When we first moved in, I was convinced that they were limes. Then they turned orange and are now splitting open. A fruit mystery, fo sho. Mystery #2: Our dehydrator is broken. You see, things go inโ€ฆ but they never come out. They just disappear. The most recent disappearing act:…

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I’m her favorite….

until the Pilot comes home. Or anyone else comes over. At least she makes me feel like her BFF for most of the day ๐Ÿ˜‰ Bell has a little bit of cabin fever, hence the stink eye. I donโ€™t teach on Tuesdays, so I almost always manage to get in a long walk with her,…

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34 weeks

and feeling sappy. 22 weeks:                                                                     28 weeks: 32 weeks:                                                                             34 weeks:       Is it just me, or has the belly gone through a major growth spurt in the past two weeks?! Itโ€™s also taking on the torpedo shape that I had predicted. Iโ€™m kinda goofy with the belly sometimes โ€“Iโ€™ll rub it, make silly faces…

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Gingerbread Protein Pancakes

Iโ€™m always scary exited when gingerbread makes its seasonal arrival.  Source When it shows up at Starbucks, I feel like the holidays are officially here and will usually get a soy latte with a couple pumps of gingerbread. [Thatโ€™s actually a hot cocoa, but you get the idea] So this morning, I decided to gingerbreadify…

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The Taco Man

Thereโ€™s a man that drives around base in his taco truck, selling delicious Mexican meals. The truck plays the โ€œMexican Hat Songโ€ as its horn (I couldnโ€™t even make this stuff up), and the guys on base swarm around the taco truck like a grown-up version of the ice cream trucks of our youth. The…

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