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The Importance of Holiday Traditions

As I write this, I am scrolling through some beautiful Instagram photos of homes already decorated for Christmas, on November 4th!  I’m not judging because I love the holiday decor too but I can’t help but think that these people are obviously not staying at their homes for Thanksgiving this year.  I can’t even think about the Christmas decorations yet because sadly, the Halloween ones still need to come down.  Not to mention, I host 25+ people every year for[Read more]

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Father-Son Bonding

From the moment our son was born, he had a special bond with my husband.  Don’t get me wrong, he and I did as well but there definitely is something different about a father-son bond.  When he was little, I can remember that Daddy was always the one who was a little more fun in his eyes, mainly because he would do the down and dirty stuff like sports, learning to ride bikes and getting into anything and everything “boy”. [Read more]

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Setting Realistic Goals

As the month of October started, it was met with excitement and anticipation of great things to come.  The back half of the year is one of my favorite times.  I love the opportunity to get together with family over the holidays with some fun events mixed in between.  With the official start to the holiday season, it becomes very easy to say let’s give in to eating what we want and become lazier than normal with the days being[Read more]

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The Next Phase of Life

With our wedding anniversary today, I thought it was fitting to talk about this next phase of our life.  After 18 years, we have definitely been through a lot together.  From navigating the early years as newlyweds and trying to focus on our careers at the same time, to parenthood and living off little sleep and finding ourselves clueless half the time as we just try to survive one day to the next.  As most parents do, we become consumed[Read more]

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A Season of Change

With the official start to Fall arriving this week, which also happens to be the same day of my son’s 15th birthday, I thought it was fitting to talk about this season of change.  Here in the OC, let’s face it, we don’t really see any signs of Fall until practically Thanksgiving, and in some years, Christmas.  Our pumpkin spice lattes are over ice but that doesn’t mean we don’t still enjoy the transition to Fall, even if the thermostat[Read more]

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What Makes a Good Mom?

As a mom, the question of whether we are doing a good job plagues us pretty much daily.  Whether you are in the thick of it in the infant years and running on limited sleep and massive doses of caffeine or learning to navigate the waters of the teenage years, every one of us has crawled into bed at the end of the day and pondered what we could have done differently that day.  Was I too strict or too[Read more]