World Sight Day 2021: Love Your Eyes

Each year, World Sight Day is recognized on the second Thursday of October and the purpose is to raise awareness about blindness, vision impairments and a reminder of the importance of eye exams and screenings.

Today, I see it necessary to spread this awareness and encourage you to take eye health very seriously – in particular being that advocate for our children. This is something they need us for! As a parent, it is our obligation to make sure we are aware of the vision developmental milestones and are actively listening and advocating for our kids.

If you’ve been following along, our daughter was diagnosed with Optic Nerve Hypoplasia – along with esotropia, hyperopia (farsightedness) and strabismus – at the age of 5 months. She is now 5 years old and has had 2 eye alignment surgeries. I shared our diagnosis story last year and since publishing, have heard from many people sharing similar stories.

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What’s Trending?! Vanilla Sweet Cream Cold Foam at Home

Oh my goodness! Sharing one of my most favorite things with you today. If you’ve been to Starbucks and ordered the cold foam on top of your drink, you know how amazing it is! It is a cloud of heavenly sweetness that makes your coffee taste 1000x better!

I don’t have the chance to get to Starbucks a whole lot, which is a good thing too because it’s so expensive, so I’ve decided to enjoy my signature drink in the comforts of my own home! For today’s “What’s Trending” post – I’m recreating Starbucks vanilla sweet cream cold foam at home!

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Friday FALL Favorites – 10.01.21

Holy moly, Happy October! How are we here already?! In the spirit of October and all things fall happening this month, I thought it would be fun to share my favorite FALL related things every Friday of this month! Join along with me if you’re interested! What a fun way to recognize the change in seasons!

Of course, I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers to share some Friday Favorites with you all!

Link up with Andrea and Erika
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Fall Bucket List

This weekend we made a fall bucket list and I don’t know about you, I was all for it! So many exciting things to look forward to in the fall – I am looking forward to crossing each and every one off the list! For now, cozy up and check out our fall bucket list!

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Let’s Look: Meal Plan

Good morning and happy Wednesday! Today, I’m linking up with my some of my favorite bloggers, Mix and Match Mama and A Little Bit of Everything, to share meal planning! It’s a good thing we are talking about this now rather than the beginning of summer. Summertime starts to get a little out of control. Some days I am good about planning and having dinner ready – other days we will snack and play all day outside until 7 pm rolls around and then start asking what is for dinner.

Meal planning during school has been much easier. There is time to prepare, THINK and hungry kiddos to feed after a school day! Here is how we meal plan for the week!

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Friday Favorites – 09.03.21

It’s the weekend over here! We have today off because of the county fair happening this weekend! As always, Labor Day weekend is PACKED for our family. There are parties, events, fairs, the airshow – so much happening, but happy to enjoy it because it kind of unofficially marks the end of summer. We are hosting family for a dual birthday party for Audrey and Tommy tomorrow morning which I am so excited about!

Of course, I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers to share some Friday Favorites with you all!

Link up with Andrea and Erika
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Day in the Life: Weekend Edition

Just in time before summer comes to a close, I’m sharing our weekend edition day in the life! I’m particularly happy to share because it was a Tommy’s birthday and we can look back and see how it was spent! We are having a joint birthday party with him and Audrey soon, but for now we kept if real real chill.

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