MOM LIFE
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Baby Registry Purchases I Made as a Second Time Mom
As second time moms, we tend to know a lot more about what we actually NEED and what is just unnecessary when it comes to making purchases from our baby registry. If you are like me and having your kids close in age, you were probably able to save a lot from your first child. I was lucky enough to have two boys so all of my first sons clothes are able to be passed down. I did however make a lot of bad purchases with my first child so I had quite a few things to get this time around. My biggest tip for you, make a baby registry…
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5 Great St. Patricks Day Activities For Toddlers
How can it even be March already, yet almost the middle of March?! Since St. Patricks day is this week I wanted to share all of the activities we will be doing this week to celebrate the holiday. Every holiday is a reason to have fun, try these educational activities with your babies too! As always, links below are affiliate links, I make a small commission off of any purchases and its hugely appreciated. St. Patricks Day Craft Ideas Crafts are always an easy fun way to spend time with your toddler, lets start there. Coffee Filter Rainbows: A classic activity that I even remember doing as a child. Help…
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8 Pregnancy Favorites From a Second Time Mama
I have officially made it to my third trimester in my second pregnancy so I felt it was the perfect time to put together a list of my pregnancy favorites as a second time mama. Some of these items I have used with both of my pregnancies, and some are recent finds this time around. Today I have my top 8 favorite products broken up into 4 categories. * Links below are affiliate links, I do make a small commission off of all qualifying purchases * Prenatal Vitamins are a very personal choice for all kinds of reasons but I have listed my two favorites based off of my research…
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Mindset Shifts To Transform Your Anxiety Based Life
Today we are talking all about mindset shifts but before we get in to that I want to share a little bit more about why this topic is so important to me Im back from my unexpected break, and while it may have been for not so positive reasons, I can always find a positive to share with you all. I have been an anxiety based human all of my life and what I mean by that is thats how I function, in worry and fear which brings me these extreme highs and lows. I let my anxiety talk me into a state of depression and then I will finally…
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4 Ways of Reconnecting With Your Spouse After Kids
Happy Valentines Day! What a great time to talk about reconnecting and rebuilding your relationship with your spouse after having kids. Having children can really change your life in 1000 great ways but it can have some negative impacts too. No sleep, less time for yourself and certainly less time for your spouse. I feel a lot of women struggle with finding the balance of it all. Especially going from having no kids to now having one. This year one of goals was to start focusing on my relationship again after it took the back seat with having my son so I thought I would share how we are working…
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Valentines Day Fun with Toddlers
Valentines Day can be so fun but it’s also one of those like in between weird holidays, especially for kids. Today I have ideas of fun ways to enjoy Valentines Day with your little ones. Finger Painting / Bag Painting I have talked about this activity before and it’s one of our favorites, we do this every holiday. We are still doing bag painting, so I drop some paint all over a piece of construction paper and slide it into a bag, then my son will move the paint around with his hands without it getting all over. Take it back out of the bag, let dry and cut into…
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The Things No One Tells You About Postpartum
Finding out you are pregnant can be overwhelming on its own right? Then you finally make it through, you have this beautiful little baby looking at you and bam. They are handing you stool softeners trying to mentally prepare you for the first “movement” after. The human body is truly amazing. WE are truly amazing ladies. WE make people, how crazy is that? Afterwards though, we kind of go through it for awhile. Today I want to talk about all the things I wish I would have known about postpartum before it was happening. This is not to scare anyone, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, it is all truly beautiful and special.…
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Top 5 Tips for Expecting New Moms
I was there, all new moms have been, you find out you are pregnant and the googling starts and if you are anything like me it doesn’t stop the whole pregnancy or once the baby is here. Thats probably how you came across this article in the first place so instead of the scary stories most posts will give you I want to give you helpful words of encouragement. Stop Googling Now i know google has plenty of beneficial information, but I highly suggest avoiding it. Pregnancy and newborn times can be really hard, every pregnancy and every baby is different. Googling can lead you to believe something is wrong…
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5 Ways to Properly Set New Years Expectations
You guys, welcome back, let’s talk New Years goals! Im sorry for my break or if you didn’t know I was taking one, I needed some time to get reorganized and get prepared for the new year as I hope to hit some big goals with the website this year! Can you believe it is 2022? Today I want to talk about how to properly set New Years goals. Im sure we have all been there, you set these huge goals with little to no plan on how you will get there and a month into the year you are discouraged or forgot about it. This is happened to me…
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The BEST Stocking Stuffers For All Ages Holiday 2021
I know you all enjoyed my Black Friday list so lets keep the Christmas energy going and talk stocking stuffers today shall we? I feel like I can come up with good gifts for pretty much everyone normally but I also like to do little gift bags or stocking stuffers for a few people as well. Most people can agree that’s where things get more difficult. Today I want to give you some of my top picks for all age groups in hopes maybe I can help you. Let’s start with babies. BABIES: Baby Banana Infant Teething Toothbrush– This works great as a teether since it has the textured nubs…