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A Week in My Life: Take Care of Yourself

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I’m a little late with this week’s blog post. Well, I am later than I would like to be. I like to have the blog posts out earlier in the week to give you something to read and later in the week something for you to view. And sometimes I just have to let the expectations go because I may have wanted to have the blog post out earlier in the week I am still making a post this week or so I thought. It’s a whole new week now. Since I started back up vlogging and blogging I have been consistent and I want to keep that momentum going. So, I wasn’t expecting to not be feeling well last week and how it shifted my whole week. I woke up Tuesday with my back hurting. I dropped the boys off at school and took the truck to the shop. While sitting the chair the pain in my lower back drifted up my back. After leaving instead of running all the errands I had planned on I ended up just going and laying down. I cannot tell you how happy I am that I did. I allowed my body the time to rest and I felt bet
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imPress Press on Nails Review

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I was taking the boys out and realized I wouldn’t have time to do my nails over the course of the weekend due to the Labor Day holiday. So, I turned to the imPress press on nails that I had sitting with the rest of my nails stuff. I was a little on the fence because this particular brand has the peel and stick adhesive guaranteeing to last.   I had used them once before and they didn’t last the full night let alone the ride in the car. By the end of the night I had 2-3 nails missing from each hand. Which had me feeling like I should have went to the event with my nails not being done at that point. Which I found interesting because I had tried another imPress press on set and it lasted for a week actually longer. Disappointed was an understatement when it didn’t work out that time. This time knowing that I was going to be outside these nails needed to last me. I prepared my natural nails as if I was going to do the “gel x” application. I used DND tip glue applied to my natural nai
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Hello September

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Happy September! I hope you’re are doing well. I can not believe we are in the month of September. I swear this summer had flown by and the year is moving pretty fast as well. And with school officially in full swing can I admit that the adjustment is real?! I thought I would be more “prepared” for this week when it came to my social media posts but I had to look at what I had created so far this week is that I was right on schedule and where I needed to be. I had the same feeling about life once the week started with school and the preparation that brings. That too I had to remind myself that I was in fact prepared for the week. Things has been shown to me to let me know that I had it and it shouldn’t have never been a doubt in my mind.   When adjustments/changes occur sometimes it can make you question life and life choices but best believe it is all working for the good and the betterment of self. I promise.  Can we talk about the month of August?! I am so proud of what I was abl
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Brooklyn Sky Sugar Scrub Review

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I happened to be on Spence Taylor ’s live and he was talking about this woman he met at Essence Fest. He spoke about how they hit it off and became friends. He found out that she owned a body care brand when she stated that he needed to give her products a try. He said how he loved her products and would get complimented on his smell after using them. They had teamed up to do a giveaway of one of her new products that was launching soon. One winner from Facebook and one winner from Instagram. I followed the instructions and entered to win. Let me tell you I was not expecting to win until she said my name on the live!   She dm me later on for my mailing address. When I got the package let me tell you the box alone smelled amazing and I hadn’t even opened it yet. The packaging was packaged very well because it was difficult to get into the box. I was grateful for it because I know my package was secure and nothing happened to in during shipping. Once I opened the box the scent waffled ou
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Fashion Nova Jeans Review from Haul

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Fashion Nova had a bogo (Buy one get one half off) sale on its demin. It was the perfect opportunity to get a new pair of jeans seeing how all my jeans and my youngest son were about the same age.The last pair of jeans I bought was from Forever 21 when they had a sale on their jeans and it was all skinny jeans. I wasn’t a big fan of skinny jeans at the time but I bought what my money could afford me seeing how all of my jeans had either had holes in the thighs or were ripping at the seams.   When I reflect on it I remember days trying to conceal the holes in my jeans with sitting with my legs crossed whenever we had to go into the conference rooms for meetings or I would just opt to stand up since that one time I sat down in a conference chair and my jeans ripped at the seam exposing my thigh from the inside seam of the jean. It got to a point that the 4 pair I had went down to 2 pairs and I would rotate each pair on alternating days so no one would notice I was wearing the same pair o
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How A Setback Can Put You in Proper Alignment

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I woke up with a cold sore last week Friday and I was filled with so many emotions none of which were happy. I was upset with the fact that I didn’t think the day prior was that stressful but my body told me otherwise. I was upset because that meant I let an event get to me that much that the stress caused this to happen. But, I hadn’t eaten the best that week I had been reminded that I had eaten McDonald’s twice that week (which is something I normally don’t do), my upcoming cycle didn’t help the situation either and the life event was just probably the icing on the cake.   I was disappointed to say the least but I had to sit with the thought of everything happens for a reason. The longer I sat with it the more I thought about how I hadn’t been taking care of myself like I really should in a while now. I remembered some of the stuff I use to do and I wasn’t doing it anymore. Talking with a family member they reminded me that sometimes as a mother you neglect yourself while caring for
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Easing Back into Blogging

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I posted my first blog post in some years just the other day. While I was going through my drafts I counted and I have 26 drafts of posts that I have not posted in the all the years I was blogging! At first I couldn’t believe I had so many posts just left there. Then I really thought about I know and understand why they were just left there. Some for reason of “being seen” and others for situations I was dealing with in my life. I didn’t want to start the blog post off with “I’m back!” Or “Yes, I know it been awhile…” I’ve done all of that before only to leave and not post for months or in this case years until now… all I can say is that I am here now.  I wanted to start this month off with easing back into blogging. I want to get use to blogging again and do it with no pressure to post for the sake of posting. I enjoy writing and getting back into the swing of things will show me how much I missed the creative process. I’m unsure if I should use any of those old post at this point see
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