2025 Mother’s Day Gift Guide

April 29, 2025

Sharing some gift ideas for all of the ladies in your life! Moms, grandmas, nanas, friends, mom figures, new moms, whoever you want to shower with something special this Motherโ€™s Day. I also wanted to recognize here that I know Motherโ€™s Day can be hard and sad for various reasons; please know Iโ€™m holding you…

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Little goes a long way

Hi ๐Ÿ™‚ How are ya? Hope your morning is going well. Our house smells like a nori nacho paradise, so things are good over here. Quite a few of you were wondering how those Alexia sweet potato puffs wereโ€ฆ the verdict? They were fantastic, but the chipotle fries will always be #1. The bottoms were…

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Sympathy Cravings

Ok, let me go ahead and describe what that was in detail: 6 layers of chocolate cake with fudge and caramel Dark chocolate frosting A layer of chocolate chips pressed into the frosting. The craziest part? It wasnโ€™t even my idea. The other night, Tom was like, โ€œI really need some chocolate cake. Do you…

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Nori Nachos

I could pretend that we did SO much today. But really: we didnโ€™t. Itโ€™s funny because we werenโ€™t lazy at all, but still didnโ€™t manage to get a ton of stuff done. NBD, since I got to enjoy the day with the Pilot, instead of frantically running around like I usually do on Mondays ๐Ÿ™‚…

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Pilot’s Day Off

Hey! Happy Monday <3 Hope your week is off to a great start. Iโ€™m a little later than normal with todayโ€™s morning post, but the Pilot took the day off work, so weโ€™ve been hanging out. He has a ton of leave saved up (92 days, some of which heโ€™ll lose if he doesnโ€™t use),…

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Out of curiosity

I donโ€™t want the Family page to come off as me being a paranoid worrywart. Yep, I worry sometimes and the many โ€œwhat-ifsโ€ cross my mind, but 99% of the time Iโ€™m focused on being present and totally happy in this moment, instead of worried about the future. I definitely like to post some of…

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