Welcome to my first blog post! What a weird thing to actually type out after thinking about starting a blog at some point or another over the last decade! So, here’s what I’m thinking…I already have a nice, neat little About Me page for the blog, but I want to dive into what I hope this page will turn into and where we came from to get to this point.

Being a WFH-SAHM (Work from Home-Stay at Home Mom) to 2.5 year old and 4 month old girls, I can’t wait to talk about all of our little adventures as well as my career as the Program Director for a local council of the nationwide nonprofit Girls on the Run. I’d love to give you a look into our home and routines, the products we use to make it all possible, and how we navigate our everyday lives together. I’m looking forward to having a space to just say whatever is on my mind – from deeper topics, like how I’m finding myself postpartum while still putting my family first, or the lighthearted stuff like how much I’m loving the espresso machine Jon got me for Christmas.

I also know I want to do a bit of backtracking and share some of my stories and lived experiences. A lot of this will include things like my pregnancies and birth stories as well as the evolution of my career path over the years and my previous life in the fitness and bodybuilding world. A lot of these things are very near and dear to my heart, and things that when I was going through them I found myself looking online to learn from other people and hear their stories. Aside from just keeping a this blog as a public journal, my hope is that my shared experiences will help someone in the way that I was looking for when I was going through these times in my life!