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What Does Mom Want | Gifts Mom Will Love
Buying gifts for your Mom is HARD! What does mom want??? All growing up, I would get a ton of anxiety when shopping for my Mom. I wanted to make sure I was pleasing her with my gift choice! I always thought that she just already had everything or if she needed something that she would just buy it herself. However, after becoming a Mom myself, I have found that to be inaccurate. Heart-felt, homemade gifts are the BEST gifts, however, there are also things that we want/need that we just won’t ask for. So I have compiled a list of items, according to what moms want, that any mom…
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How to Make Epic Stovetop Popcorn
Movie night or not, popcorn is my number one, all-time favorite snack. My daughter and I eat popcorn practically every night. I also bring it to social gatherings like book club. I CANNOT count how many times people have asked me to bring it with me or ask me how I make it. So I decided to let the “popcorn out of the bag”! This is no microwave popcorn. This is stovetop popcorn. The way popcorn was meant to be made! This is the too good to be true, old-fashioned, make your next family movie night that much more epic kind of popcorn! What makes popcorn so great? Popcorn is…
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How to Hustle When You’re a Momma
So I wanted to find ways in which I could provide some added income into our household without having to put my kids in daycare. There are many more ways to make money from home then I will list here, but these are my top 3 side hustles for stay-at-home moms.
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Be Boujie on a Budget
I want to look boujie but I am on a budget! Most of the beauty products out there are so expensive! Here are my top tips to obtain boujie beauty on a budget!
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What do I call my birth mother?
I am in an open adoption group on Facebook. The other day I was scrolling through the feed and came across a post from one of the members that was an open adoptee. He was concerned with what to call his birth mom.
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You’re more than a “birth mom”
I hate the term "birth mom". I feel that it does not truly represent who these women are. It sounds as if all they did was give birth. However, their impact on/in the child's life did not start nor does it stop at birth.
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Newborn Photoshoot: Freelance vs. Studio Photographer
When we adopted our oldest daughter (now 2), we had her newborn photoshoot done at a studio with a highly rated photographer when she was 9 days old. The experience was great and we had a lot of fabulous shots to choose from! We were planning on going back to her for our youngest daughters‘ newborn pictures as well. However, COVID concerns with a newborn caused us to reanalyze. We ended up making the decision to use a freelance photographer that is also a friend of mine! She had taken pictures for us before and she is a very talented photographer. She did an amazing job and the experience was…
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Five Must Haves for Girl Moms
In a world of millions of products it is nearly impossible to find the best ones without wasting a ton of money first. This is especially true when you are the mom of a little girl! I know that it's not just me that finds everything "girly" to be darling! Girl moms have it HARD!
Motherhood Refined
