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🚨GIVEAWAY CLOSED🚨 Togetherish Mom x The Blushery 💋 Pandemic or not, #BlusheryBrows are still happening 🙌🏼, and with temp checks at the door, major sterilization happening, and appointments required, @theblushery is one of the very few places I feel totally safe going inside. Stephanie has done an incredible job at continuing to provide beautification services while keeping everyone safe. We decided to team up to offer one of you a brow wax + tint ($60 value) as a way to show a little positivity and love 💕 To win, you must be following both @theblushery and @togetherishmom (we’ll check) and simply tag a friend that you think would love this- or one that needs to be following both of us, too! One tag per comment; each counts as one entry. Extra entry if you share this giveaway on Stories (make sure you tag us so we see)!

We will select a winner randomly on Tuesday 1-26. Good luck! 😘

I don’t know about you but lately I’ve found t

I don’t know about you but lately I’ve found the whole “making multiple dinners a night” thing exhausting. I’ve been asking other moms of picky eaters what they do, but the thing is that my kids are THE PICKIEST kids of all time so a lot of times people’s suggestions would never fly in this house. My kids eat like 3 things. Anyone relate? 🤪 Anyway, I came across this recipe for pretzel-crusted chicken with Irish Cheddar and German Swiss cheese sauce and it sounded SO GOOD that I was inspired to try to make it for the entire family (with only one modification for the boys: making it nugget-sized). Well guess what- it was a hit with everyone. I honestly fell into a cheese-induced trance and could not stop eating; I think I ate 5 servings! The English language doesn’t provide enough words for me to describe how incredible this melty, flavorful sauce tasted but please, if you’ve trusted me on anything, just trust me on this. The great news for you is that all the main ingredients (Bell + Evans chicken, Splitz pretzels, the exact two cheeses I used, and whole-grain mustard) are on sale at Adams this week! Click the link in my bio for the recipe and don’t forget to go ahead and enjoy $5 off at checkout by asking in-store for the Togetherish Mom discount, through 1-28!

The past four years have been anything but boring

The past four years have been anything but boring thanks to this baby boy. He is so delightfully himself, and what more could a mama want for her child?

Every year for his birthday, we ask our guests that in lieu of gifts, they do one kind thing in Logan’s honor. This year = no party, of course. But if anyone is inspired to do one kind thing, I think the universe is still gladly accepting donations. 🌍

Happy four to my sidekick, the very best distraction from hard and bad things. Thanks so much for being ours. ❤️

This is me with my sister Dana on March 7, 2020. A

This is me with my sister Dana on March 7, 2020. After this day, our entire lives changed. Moments after this photo was snapped, she had a car accident. A distracted (drunk? drugged? idk) driver literally slammed into her car from the side, carrying her and her two babies and my mama. We were driving home separately from a play in Rhinebeck. This is us at Samuels, where we stopped for treats before heading home.

It was such a bad car accident that when we drove past it moments after, I shielded my kids from seeing. I had no idea it was them. I’ll be forever haunted by that. Moments later, Dana called me. Mike spun the car around, but as we got closer to the scene, Route 9 was all blocked off. I jumped out of our car running in these heeled brown boots that matched my sisters’ for what felt like forever, to get to her, and my nephews, and my mama. Glass everywhere, her car, totaled against a metal fence, and an ambulance with its lights flashing, welcomed me to the scene. I couldn’t run fast enough. They were there, inside the ambulance. Shaken, but okay. Totally okay. 🙏🏻

My sister is a teacher. She enters a school every day. She’s gone on no vacations, she’s enjoyed no family celebrations, she’s gone to no restaurants. She’s cautious. She’s careful. And yet her job requires that she be inside a building all day, providing education and care to other people’s kids, (while paying for full day childcare for her own remote kids- that’s the kind of thing teachers are doing behind the scenes that you don’t see).

That day, I hugged her a thousand times. Later that night, so upset, I drove to her house just to hug my sister again. And since that day, almost a year ago, I’ve hugged her less times than I can count on my two hands. Maybe even one. Yet still my sister bravely goes into a school and shares her heart, her kindness and her passion for learning every day. She is my hero. I look forward to being able to start catching up on the year full of hugs that we’ve missed.

Teachers are heroes. You have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes for them, of the sacrifices they’re making, and will continue to make, throughout this pandemic. Thank a teacher. 🍎

Hope your weekend is a solid pause. ❤️ We’re

Hope your weekend is a solid pause. ❤️ We’re jammin over here. 🎶

Things always look different in hindsight. I wonde

Things always look different in hindsight. I wonder if we’ll look back and think to ourselves, “It wasn’t that bad”. I mean look at us here- does it look like it was bad? I wonder what story the photos will tell, long after our own memories fade and become busy with current events. Which parts will be recalled easily, and which will dissolve.

Right now I would be okay forgetting some of it, but I think one day, I’ll need to be reminded. So: it was full of anxiety and fear. There was devastating injustice. There was political conflict. There was big pharma conflict. Conflict over businesses being opened or closed. There was conflict over wearing masks.

There were heroes. There were helpers. There was Instacart. There was tie-dyeing and baking and butterfly kits. There was a toilet paper shortage. For a time, we Lysoled the mail. There was a wildflower garden and nature walks. There was Zoom. Car parades, led by fire trucks. Graduations and birthdays and first days of school. There was supporting local. There were brilliant creative shifts in small businesses: curbside, delivery, a shift to doing things differently online. There was home renovation. There was loungewear.

And us mamas, every day, we did our absolute best to stay okay. To make our kids okay, despite fear, despite questions we couldn’t answer, despite sweeping discrepancies in the opinions and feelings and behaviors of others. We did scavenger hunts and pen pal things and read stories and we lovingly tucked our babies in night after night while the storm raged on outside our homes’ walls. We anchored the ship even when the worst of the turmoil was living in our own frightened, weary hearts.

I don’t know which parts we will remember when we look back on 2020, but mama, please take a moment today to look in the mirror and remember WE 👏🏼 DID 👏🏼 IT.

Wishing 2020 good riddance and sending each and every one of you a big, virtual hug. We did it. ❤️ Thanks for being on the journey with me, this year more than ever. Happy New Year. 🎊

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🚨GIVEAWAY CLOSED🚨 Togetherish Mom x The Blus

🚨GIVEAWAY CLOSED🚨 Togetherish Mom x The Blushery 💋 Pandemic or not, #BlusheryBrows are still happening 🙌🏼, and with temp checks at the door, major sterilization happening, and appointments required, @theblushery is one of the very few places I feel totally safe going inside. Stephanie has done an incredible job at continuing to provide beautification services while keeping everyone safe. We decided to team up to offer one of you a brow wax + tint ($60 value) as a way to show a little positivity and love 💕 To win, you must be following both @theblushery and @togetherishmom (we’ll check) and simply tag a friend that you think would love this- or one that needs to be following both of us, too! One tag per comment; each counts as one entry. Extra entry if you share this giveaway on Stories (make sure you tag us so we see)!

We will select a winner randomly on Tuesday 1-26. Good luck! 😘

I don’t know about you but lately I’ve found t

I don’t know about you but lately I’ve found the whole “making multiple dinners a night” thing exhausting. I’ve been asking other moms of picky eaters what they do, but the thing is that my kids are THE PICKIEST kids of all time so a lot of times people’s suggestions would never fly in this house. My kids eat like 3 things. Anyone relate? 🤪 Anyway, I came across this recipe for pretzel-crusted chicken with Irish Cheddar and German Swiss cheese sauce and it sounded SO GOOD that I was inspired to try to make it for the entire family (with only one modification for the boys: making it nugget-sized). Well guess what- it was a hit with everyone. I honestly fell into a cheese-induced trance and could not stop eating; I think I ate 5 servings! The English language doesn’t provide enough words for me to describe how incredible this melty, flavorful sauce tasted but please, if you’ve trusted me on anything, just trust me on this. The great news for you is that all the main ingredients (Bell + Evans chicken, Splitz pretzels, the exact two cheeses I used, and whole-grain mustard) are on sale at Adams this week! Click the link in my bio for the recipe and don’t forget to go ahead and enjoy $5 off at checkout by asking in-store for the Togetherish Mom discount, through 1-28!

The past four years have been anything but boring

The past four years have been anything but boring thanks to this baby boy. He is so delightfully himself, and what more could a mama want for her child?

Every year for his birthday, we ask our guests that in lieu of gifts, they do one kind thing in Logan’s honor. This year = no party, of course. But if anyone is inspired to do one kind thing, I think the universe is still gladly accepting donations. 🌍

Happy four to my sidekick, the very best distraction from hard and bad things. Thanks so much for being ours. ❤️

This is me with my sister Dana on March 7, 2020. A

This is me with my sister Dana on March 7, 2020. After this day, our entire lives changed. Moments after this photo was snapped, she had a car accident. A distracted (drunk? drugged? idk) driver literally slammed into her car from the side, carrying her and her two babies and my mama. We were driving home separately from a play in Rhinebeck. This is us at Samuels, where we stopped for treats before heading home.

It was such a bad car accident that when we drove past it moments after, I shielded my kids from seeing. I had no idea it was them. I’ll be forever haunted by that. Moments later, Dana called me. Mike spun the car around, but as we got closer to the scene, Route 9 was all blocked off. I jumped out of our car running in these heeled brown boots that matched my sisters’ for what felt like forever, to get to her, and my nephews, and my mama. Glass everywhere, her car, totaled against a metal fence, and an ambulance with its lights flashing, welcomed me to the scene. I couldn’t run fast enough. They were there, inside the ambulance. Shaken, but okay. Totally okay. 🙏🏻

My sister is a teacher. She enters a school every day. She’s gone on no vacations, she’s enjoyed no family celebrations, she’s gone to no restaurants. She’s cautious. She’s careful. And yet her job requires that she be inside a building all day, providing education and care to other people’s kids, (while paying for full day childcare for her own remote kids- that’s the kind of thing teachers are doing behind the scenes that you don’t see).

That day, I hugged her a thousand times. Later that night, so upset, I drove to her house just to hug my sister again. And since that day, almost a year ago, I’ve hugged her less times than I can count on my two hands. Maybe even one. Yet still my sister bravely goes into a school and shares her heart, her kindness and her passion for learning every day. She is my hero. I look forward to being able to start catching up on the year full of hugs that we’ve missed.

Teachers are heroes. You have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes for them, of the sacrifices they’re making, and will continue to make, throughout this pandemic. Thank a teacher. 🍎

Hope your weekend is a solid pause. ❤️ We’re

Hope your weekend is a solid pause. ❤️ We’re jammin over here. 🎶

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