Pregnancy is a wonderful time. It’s filled with a wide range of emotions, cravings, and an interesting time for fashion.  Your skin isn’t itself, and neither is your waistline.  How does one dress a growing bump?  Can you remain stylish who growing said bump?  I dare say yes!  And Veronika Javor Romeis of Veronika’s Blushing […]

Pregnancy is a wonderful time. It’s filled with a wide range of emotions, cravings, and an interesting time for fashion.  Your skin isn’t itself, and neither is your waistline.  How does one dress a growing bump?  Can you remain stylish who growing said bump?  I dare say yes!  And Veronika Javor Romeis of Veronika’s Blushing […]

Today’s BEAUTY BAG comes from a fresh faced, vibrant stunner who knows how to use color: Megan Runion of the fashion blog, For All Things Lovely. She loves bright colors, and you rarely find her in the same shade of lipstick from one day to the next. I love her beauty philosophy– don’t over think […]

If the brains (and beauty) behind the Mom’s Best Network and mother of five, Tana Hallows, has learned anything about beauty, it’s that less is more.  Simple, simple, simple is the name of her game and believe me, when you’re juggling that much, you’ve got to have game. In today’s BEAUTY BAG, Tana shares her […]

Most women experience something unexpected while they are expecting– but the majority of issues resolve themselves and most babies are born heathy and strong.  But the news Becky Kimball received at 20 weeks wasn’t anything she could have prepared herself for.  She learned the baby girl she was carrying had a heart defect called Hypoplastic […]

Few of us buy our dream home the first time around.  Usually there are a few fillers– apartments, rentals, and condos before we get to single family home status.  Fillers can be frustrating.  Of course, you want to make your house a home, but either because money is tight, or because you aren’t willing to […]

On this day after Mother’s Day, our BEAUTY BAG feature comes appropriately from an expectant mother (and I dare say one of the prettiest pregos I’ve ever seen).  Shannon Bird from the family blog Bird A La Mode believes less is more when it comes to her makeup regime.  And if less can make you […]

If you’re lucky, you’ve found one.  A friend who is really more family.  Someone who serves as a sounding board, a fortress of secrets, a supporter of your crazy dreams, and a shoulder to cry on in your darkest moments.  A friend for life.  Emily, Nicole, and Jenna have that times three.  Meet the gals […]

Birthing a child takes a lot of sacrifice.  Megan Bailey learned with each of her pregnancies, her body was not her own.  It was a vessel.  It was a ship carrying her two baby boys through development and into the world.  9 pounders.  In her barely 5 foot frame.  Miracles indeed. With her first pregnancy, […]