Mrs. on the Move

If I'm being honest, the novelty of cooking new recipes and having dinner every night at home during quarantine wore off pretty quickly for me. I love to cook and we did find some awesome new recipes, but I do not find joy in cleaning all. the. dishes.  I didn't think I would miss eating out so much, but sometimes it just nice not to eat your own food. 

I never thought I would like the look of a pre-distressed shoe.  After all I have been known to throw my sneakers in the washing machine when they start to look a little too dingy.  Then I stumbled on the brand Golden Goose one afternoon and my shoe-loving heart skipped a beat.  Now if you're anything like me, you know the very next thing I looked at was the price tag and holy moly was I shocked.  Most of these shoes run $400+ and I immediately questioned how any sneaker, let alone one that looks like it's seen its fair share of miles could cost so much.

It's no secret that I love a good designer find, but at the end of the day a girl's closet can only hold so much.  I tend to clean out my closet quarterly, and while this might seem excessive to some people, I have a real problem with clutter and get overwhelmed when there is simply just too much stuff. This is where my love of eBay comes to the rescue!

If I didn't already love Target enough, they've given me even more reason to love my "cheaper than therapy" strolls through their aisles with their new brand, Universal Thread.  When I first saw it in stores I thought they had done a collaboration with Madewell because the pieces reminded me so much of the easy, versatile basics you find there.  But what I was surprised to find from this new denim-focused brand was the extremely affordable price points.

Kyle and I were in the car the other day and the topic of Amazon came up - it's been a bit of a conversation starter in Dallas lately since we made the short list for its second headquarters!  While I don't consider myself a serial Amazon shopper, I do order some of our household goods from there and am a sucker for beauty products and gadgets.  I love hearing what other people buy from Amazon (#nosey), so after reading this post Ashley wrote I thought I would share a list of my own!

When I sat down to write this post last night, this is not exactly what I planned on writing about nor is it a topic I thought I would ever talk about here.  I envision this little space on the internet to be a place for honest and open discussion, but if I'm being true to myself and each of you, I have avoided talking about this topic because it embarrasses me that it's something that even crosses my mind.  I'm a 27 year old woman and I still struggle with my body image on a daily basis.

Before Kyle and I started menu planning, we played the game where we look at each other and ask what's for dinner for an hour, which usually led to a disagreement and then eating something quick and unhealthy.  It was a pattern we stayed in for such a long time and we were only able to break it when we did the Whole 30 together in January of 2017.  With Whole 30 you pretty much have to menu plan or there is little chance you will have success.  There are few restaurants you can eat at and honestly they're not really worth it!

When it comes to supplements I'm probably the worst when it comes to consistency.  I end up doing a ton of research on something, get super excited to work it into my routine and a few weeks later I forget to take it for a few days and it makes its way onto the list of supplements I just didn't stick with.  If I'm being completely honest I thought collagen peptides would be the same way which is why it took me so long to bite the bullet and spend the money, but after 6 months it's become a part of my daily routine and I've since repurchased multiple times.

It's been a while - nearly two month have passed since I published my last blog post and even before that things were a little sparse around here.  I wish I could give you some amazing reason why it's been that way, but if I'm being totally honest life just got really busy and my heart just wasn't into creating content.  I told myself at some point last year that I didn't want to write if it wasn't something I felt strongly about or truly enjoyed creating and that's when I realized that I needed to step back for a bit and focus on some other things in my life.

I mentioned a little while ago that our lives have kind of definitely been a whirlwind lately and one of the biggest reasons is that we were in the process of buying a house!  I haven't shared too many details on here or social media because I didn't want to jinx our luck in finding the perfect house.  Call me superstitious if you will, but through the process of selling our last house and hearing the stories of others trying to buy in the DFW market, I just didn't want to take any chances.  We definitely had a few bumps along the way as one does with buying an older home, but Kyle and I are absolutely over the moon to be able to start settling into the next chapter of our lives!