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Friday Introduction //

January 12, 2018 by Rachel 13 Comments

Oh, hi! Since we’ve recently entered a whole new year, I figured I’d take a few minutes out of your Friday to introduce myself!

1.  I am a chronic oversharer — both online and IRL. I can’t help it.

2.  As much of a social butterfly that I am, I also crave doing things alone — like eating at restaurants, sitting in coffee shops, shopping, etc. I love being alone!

3.  I call myself a SAHM, but in reality, I’m a ‘work-with-my-kids’ mom. Meaning, I work outside of the home about 18-22 hours a week, but my children are there with me the whole time. Yep, a bit of an interesting dynamic. They are with me because I work in childcare at our YMCA, where I also work as a gymnastics coach and cycling instructor.

4.  My guilty pleasure is The Bachelor and all the Bravo reality shows.

5.  If given the opportunity to vacation at either the ocean or in the mountains, I’d choose the mountains 100% of the time.

6.  My husband and I eloped in Portland, Maine almost 6 years ago. And I don’t regret choosing to elope over a big wedding, at all.

7.  I am an alum of Syracuse University and I miss Syracuse every single day, but I never stepped foot into a Syracuse sporting event until after I graduated. I was just too busy with real-life to have time for that I guess?

8.  I have two kids — Ari, age 5, and Remy Bea, age (almost) 2 — with one on the way (due June 2018)! Which is weird because, pre-babies, I never wanted to have kids. But I LOVE being a mom!

9.  I love coffee, craft beer, donuts, and checking out all the amazing local foodie locations.

Nine seems like a good place to stop! 🙂 I hope you’ll follow along with this circus and see where this crazy life leads us! ♥ ♥

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Friday Introduction //

March 17, 2017 by Rachel 18 Comments

I recently realized that I’ve been blogging for close to 10 years. That’s a long time, friends. Like, a ridiculously long time. So it’s likely that most of you have no idea who I am or what exactly brought me to where I am now.

  • I never wanted to be a mom. It’s true. My ‘grand plan’ for life did not include having children. Being a mom was simply something I did not want (and I’m not afraid to speak honestly about it). It seems bizarre now, but Chad and I had talked about kids and both had decided they weren’t for us. We were grown adults, living our lives, and, totally content. But life had other plans. One Vegas trip and one Birth Control Pill statistic later, and I’m a walking cliché. Because I seriously feel like being a mom is the job I was meant to have. It’s most definitely the path I’m supposed to be on. So freaking weird, dude.

  • I’m a (kind of) SAHM to Ari (age 4) and Remy Bea (age 13 months). Meaning, I take my kiddos with me to my part-time job. I’m a gymnastics coach and also work in childcare, and my kids are with me at my job and at home, so 24/7. Which is… interesting, to say the least.

  • I’m a sucker for comfort foods. One of my favorite foods of all time is biscuits and gravy. Of course, my husband thinks it’s disgusting. But I grew up in a house with a Southern father. Okra, grits, collard greens, macaroni and cheese, and biscuits and gravy? Those are my jam. But I honestly don’t remember the last time I actually had any of these foods. Turns out they’re hard to come by in Ohio.

  • We travelled a lot before becoming parents. Which is amazing. We went on a cruise, road trips up the Eastern Seaboard, and a notorious trip to Vegas (where, it turns out, not everything that happens there stays there).

  • My husband, Chad, and I eloped in Portland, Maine when I was 13 weeks pregnant with our son, Ari. I had a wedding dress, we hired a photographer, and we stayed in the only 5 star hotel in Maine. After our vows we dined at the Lobster Shack at Two Lights — so that’s the kind of couple that we are. Laid back. The real deal. No fancy shmancy nada around these parts.

  • I have Emetophobia, which is a phobia of vomit. No, I’m not just grossed out by it; I have a legitimate phobia of it.

  • I received my BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Syracuse University. I had every intention of going to graduate school for Biological Anthropology (think Jane Goodall), but was offered three different full-time positions at my job during the housing market crash. Soooo life won.

  • I’m obsessed with NPR and the old music in my iTunes. I’m a lame old lady and it’s all I listen to. But I still think it’s pretty rad.

  • My birthday is on October 5th, which just so happens to be the most common date of birth in the United States. Basically, I know what my parents were doing on New Years Eve, 1983.

  • I’m obsessed with cilantro. Load that crap on everything, ya’ll.

  • I despise Summer. Give me Spring and Fall all year long and I’m happy. But keep that crazy heat away from me. #ByeFelicia

  • I’ve been practicing yoga for the last 10 years, but fell out of practice when I was pregnant with Remy Bea. (Hyperemesis doesn’t make a person want to get out of bed, let alone exercise). But yoga and running really are my passion.

  • I can’t cook and don’t cook. A couple of times a week I buy a rotisserie chicken and make rice in the Instant Pot and call it dinner. Taaaaa daaaaaaa!

  • But I can bake, dude. Like, I’m the daughter of a baker and can make cookies, cake, and other desserts from scratch like no big thang. Just don’t ask me to cook. Please.

  • I despise when people say “No offense” and “Obviously”. Because people say “no offense” and think that it gives them free-reign to be turds. And nothing in this world is “obvious.” So STAHP.

  • Labor, delivery, and birth are my passion. Albeit, a passion I never knew I would ever have in a million bazillion years. But I love labor, delivery, and birth so much that I have a goal of someday becoming a birth doula and Bradley Method instructor.

  • I’m not afraid to do things alone. Movies, dinners, and random events? Sign me up. I can fly solo anywhere. It’s a skill that I’ve realized makes people really uncomfortable, either because they can’t imagine going to dinner alone or because they wonder why you’d want to.

  • I hate salt unless it’s on potatoes or corn. Seriously those are the only two things I put salt on. It drives my husband bonkers.

I realize this list is totally random, but that’s my life — totally, completely, and utterly random, like 99% of the time. Thanks for following along on our journey! Now tell me something completely random about you! 

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post-holiday blues //

January 13, 2015 by Rachel 4 Comments

I know darn well I’m not alone with the post-holiday blues. As stressful as Christmas can be, there is also so much hustle, bustle and genuine cheer, it also does a good job of compounding the stress.

And then, January. Dreaded, dreaded, January.

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After New Years it seemed like the weather got the memo and turned bitter cold and snowy, making daily commutes and tasks that much less enjoyable. Ugh. Throw in daycare drop offs and pick ups, layering clothes, and trying to fit in workouts. That pretty much equals a recipe for disaster. At least for some of us.

Yuck.

I know I’m not the only one who feels this way; I know that many of us suffer from the post-holiday blues… or Seasonal Affective Disorder. I’ll admit it. I’m there. I’m full-on in need of a happy lamp. In fact, I bought a groupon for a tanning salon. Yeah, yeah… I know it causes wrinkles, and normally I avoid it. But I also need a boost of endorphins.

But that’s not going to solve it all. That’s not going to fix the fact that this time of year is rough. Brutal, in fact.

But I don’t have a solution; I don’t have a cure. I just have solace. Solace in knowing that I’m not alone; that there are many other people who feel the same way; that we all need to support each other and lift each other up during these next few months. Solace in knowing that this time of year won’t last forever. I just need to stick it out — we just need to stick it out — and it will pass.

The holidays were fun. But take the next couple of months one day at a time. Find something that brightens those gray days — like tanning, working out, or anything that brings you a teeny bit of joy. And just wait for the sunshine.

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It’s coming!

PS. If you need support, I’m here!

Filed Under: about me, authentic, health, holidays, life, Ohio, some days, thoughts, weather Tagged With: health, life, mental health, ohio, winter

practice radical self-love!

July 28, 2011 by Rachel 4 Comments

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Yesterday my BFF posted this quote on Facebook. It was too amazing not to pass on to all of you!

“So today, I would like to invite us to practice radical self-love. Love your love handles, love your tallness, love your shortness, love your flaws, love your imperfections, love your quirks, love your grey hair, love your no hair, love your pimples, love your creases, love your everything.”

— Mastin Kipp, The Daily Love

This is my new mantra for the rest of this year! Heck — even the rest of my life!


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what i’ve been busy with: real life stuff.

May 9, 2011 by Rachel 7 Comments

Lately I’ve had the best of intentions with spending some quality time with my laptop on the weekends — I have visions of reading blogs, scheduling my own posts, and then browsing on Pinterest. 

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But then life happens. And I don’t mean that in a bad way; I mean that in a good way. The kind of way where I realize that sometimes it is always more important to do real life stuff. Like go to the movies with the boyfriend to see Thor in 3D; or giving the house a good Spring cleaning; and going to a late-night Italian dinner; and preparing the house for a visit from my parents for Mothers day. 


One of these days I’m going to spend a serious minute at my laptop. But in the meantime, you can find me at home, surrounded by the people I love the most. Eating leftover pasta salad in my PJs. Cause that’s how I roll these days.

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friday 1.28.11

January 28, 2011 by Rachel 5 Comments

Where did this week go!? I had such a great first week back to my new/old job! It’s been great reconnecting with people I fell out of touch with.

But I’m certainly glad to have some time to catch up on sleep this weekend.

Besides catching up on sleept this weekend, I’ll be:

– relaxing.
– doing some light cleaning.
– reading, reading, reading.
– working out a lot.
– doing some baking.
– sleeping some more.
– catching up on some fabulous blogs I’ve fallen behind on.
– spending some quality time with BF.

What are your plans for this lovely weekend?

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