Friday Favorites

Happy Friday, friends! Today’s post is super short and sweet because my FAVORITES post is actually going to be on Saturday this week, so check back tomorrow!

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Every morning these two eat their breakfast together on the kitchen floor while I’m moving around filling water cups or milk cups or stopping to help push up a yogurt pouch or making toast for Harrison 🙂

By the way, since Banks has a milk protein allergy, he eats this cashew milk yogurt from Forager and he loves it! Merritt loves it too!

Okay, y’all have a great day and I’m off to walk with my weighted vest on the treadmill before my kids wake up! Make sure you check back tomorrow for my Saturday FAVORITES post!

Happy Friday! I’m so glad you’re here! It’s been a good week, so as usual, I’m going to share some FAVORITES with y’all!

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Wednesday I blogged about the air purifiers in our house and you can read that blog post here. I explain more in the blog post, but I really do believe that they’ve helped our family to stay well and not pass around sicknesses like we usually do.

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I finished this book not too long ago and it was so cute! I really loved the setting (NYC) and the characters had great banter–which always makes a book more enjoyable to me. I liked the storyline so much that I read this book in 2 days. Elle is the main character and she’s experiencing writer’s block. She moves to NYC temporarily to house sit in a very fancy apartment. Her neighbor ends up being a man she can’t stand, and well, you know how the story goes 🙂

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Wednesday I took the kids downtown to sit and watch for trains. Harrison and I did this every Wednesday during the pandemic, so I’ve decided to bring it back. (Banks looks mad, but he just didn’t want his picture taken haha). We sat and watched traffic for maybe 15 minutes before a train came, and both boys got so excited! Then we walked to the library to get a book for Harrison and I to read together, and then went home for lunch!

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I bought this CUTE outfit for Merritt and my mom picked it up for me yesterday. I took these pictures last night to show my mom what it looked like on Merritt, and well, you can see her little personality here haha! This 3rd child keeps me on my toes quite literally 🙂 (Size up one in that outfit)

Happy Friday, y’all! Our first week of summer has come to an end, and it’s been the rainiest start to a summer–yuck! Even as I sit here typing this on Friday morning, more rain is expected this morning and it looks pretty gloomy outside.

As always, today I’m sharing some FAVORITES with y’all!

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I got this weighted vest for Mother’s Day and it really is a FAVORITE! It can be a little overwhelming to decide which weighted vest to buy because there are so many options and even trying to figure out which weight to even buy (because you don’t want to buy too heavy or too light). I have two friends who both have an adjustable weighted vest and so that’s what I ended up asking for and getting! Mine is the 11-20lb vest and I’ve taken all the extra weights out, but I’m about to add one back in because I think 11lb is a little too light for me. I love wearing this vest and waking up the next morning and feeling sore in my legs and core–I know it’s doing something!

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I had book club last Friday night and pulled out a dress to wear that I haven’t worn in FOREVER! I love this dress but it’s too short to wear to school, so I never wear it. Plus I didn’t wear it pregnant and last summer I was newly post-partum and not feeling great in my new body, so I also didn’t wear it. I’m linking a similar style, but not the exact one since this one I’m wearing is 5 years old!

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Speaking of book club, this is my next FAVORITE!!! I love my book club! After Merritt was born and I was home on maternity leave, I was still able to read during the day while I rocked her, but I was craving being able to talk to people about the book I was reading. So last year (maybe at the end of May?), I reached out to some friends to see if they wanted to start a book club and I expected a couple of friends so say yes, but it was a lot! Our first meeting was last June and we read this book! Since then, we’ve added new people and it’s been great! Our current read is the newest Carley Fortune–which feels very appropriate for a summer read.

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THIS IS WHY I LOVE BEING HOME FOR SUMMER! I love, love, love being home with my kids. Is it easy? No! There is plenty of fighting or crying or chasing after Merritt when she gets into something she’s not supposed to be doing ha! But I truly love spending these days with my kids because as the saying goes–the days are long but the years are short–and time is passing by too quickly. “Every good and perfect gift is from above” James 1:17