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Goal Setting: Summer 2025
There are 2 more months in summer and as we near the end of summer break (only 3 more weeks left), I am now ready for some goal setting! June was a stressful month with my mom’s health and creating new routines there and my oldest looking for living arrangements for the fall semester at GA tech. Now that those routines are established and he has an apartment to move into in August, I can look forward to these coming two months. As I mentioned in last week’s post, June was a month full of anxiety, but July was a nice turning points with new routines. Family Goals visit my…
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Green Pants and Grey Tee: Simple Casual Look
Why do I blog and have take time to come up with fun outfits every day? Blogging is a creative outlet that uplifts my mood and can brighten my day. It gives me a purpose that is not tied to my “mommy status”, it’s something that I do for enjoyment and to inspire other to enjoy this thing we all have to do everyday: get dressed. It keeps me grounded to something positive on harder days. It is something that I can have control of, what I chose to wear and share is an expression of who I am. The weather and occasion may dictate what I wear, but I…
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Summer Patriotic Looks
Since I came up with a number of new outfits shopping my closet for the week of the 4th, I thought I would share them with you today to remind you to play around with combinations because there are many ways to wear the pieces you already have in your closet. If you click on the links to my other posts featuring red, white and blue outfits (here and here), you will recognize some of those tops and bottoms! This year I concentrated on some of the things I hadn’t worn in a while. Maxi Skirts I have had this thrifted tank forever: the cute pattern and the drape work…
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Summer Flowers and Anxiety
If I had to sum my summer in one word so far, it is anxiety! While we had a nice little vacation and I have had fun with the boys and enjoyed the slow mornings, I really have been struggling with anxiety until about the last few days of June. I always have been a person who gets a little sick to my stomach when I am stressed or anxious (think job interview, a big bill…), but this summer, I feel like I have let it go to another level and I am struggling with letting go of being anxious. I think part of the reason anxiety is taking over…
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Shorts for Summer: Casual but Stylish
Hello Summer! I was grateful for a longer spring than usual here in Georgia, but now that it is hot, hot, hot, I am wearing quite the variety of outfits, from maxi dresses to flowy pants to shorts. Today, I wanted to share an outfit I wore a Sunday afternoon last month. I wanted to create a comfortable outfit that was a casual but also stylish: I wanted to look put together without letting go of comfort. This is the outfit I came up with and most of the pieces I am wearing are thrifted. These cute sandals finally bit the dust and this was the last time I wore…
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Summer Style: Floral Maxi and Knotted White Button Down
I love Pinterest! Sometimes it inspires me to only shop my closet and other times, it sends me on a quick trip to my local thrift store to find an item I think will be a great addition to my closet. And more often than not, I am able to find what I am looking for! While I did have a white button down in my closet, it was kind of bulky and oversized to the point of being too warm for summer. The excess material also made it difficult to knot (even if using the trick of wrapping a clear rubber band to give the illusion of a knot).…
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A Day in NYC with Kids
I typically have our vacations pretty well planned out, but for this vacation, I had a list of possibilities and chose and adapted our schedule with visiting with my father in law and wake up time of the rest of the family. So while I really wanted to leave for NYC earlier, we didn’t get to the train station till 10 AM which put us in the city around 12:30 since we took the train from Port Jefferson and took a subway from Penn Station to Central Park. In the past, I had a great fold out map of the city and I really wished I had it this time:…
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White and Blue for a Day in NYC
While I did not do a great job packing appropriately for the weather for this trip to Long Island and New York, there are some things that were worn once or twice! Since I wore my newly thrifted jeans and olive pants several times on the trip, I wanted to wear something different when we went into the city. The weather was going to be the perfect, just around 70 and the skies were clear. No rain on the forecast! I settled on my white denim which I wore on our travel day over. It may sound like a strange choice, knowing that I would be sitting on the subway,…
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Bright Colored Outfits for Summer
I am an equal color opportunity fashionista when it comes to wearing neutrals and bright colors in my daily outfits. I do go through phases when I am drawn to subdued colors while at other times, I crave colorful clothes. Thankfully, my closet is full of both. As summer settled in, I started reaching for my bright tops and decided to share some of my favorite daily outfits with you. I wore this for a quick outing to our Saturday Farmer’s Market. I usually focus on not browsing (or I will spend too much money), but on this Saturday, the French bakery booth was sold out. I ended up picking…
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Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY
My father in law has lived on Long Island as a monk in an Orthodox Monastery for probably the last 18 years or so. We used to visit frequently when our oldest was younger, but actually had not gone back to NY in the past 13 years. This year was the year and I am already thinking a short trip at Christmas might be nice! We visited with him, but also visited Long Island showing the boys some of the places we had visited in the past and discovering new spots. We’ve visited Port Jefferson before, but we had never taken the ferry there. It goes to Connecticut and back…