Hi there!

My name is Stefanie and I am your fairly typical millennial mom and wife fightin for her life in these mean suburb streets. I live my days in a corporate haze making my career managing a large-scale team of social & digital marketers in the tech space and I spend my nights in a pseudo battle zone playing lightsabers with the most perfect 5 year old to ever exist. Sometimes I even bribe my hunk of a hubs to get me an ice cream cone – so you know, I’m winning.

I lean heavily into the things that the youths are calling chuegy – and I’m ok with it. Do I live for a charcuterie board? Hell ya. Will I stop talking about throwbacks and early thousands music? Hard no. Do I believe that motherhood is the hardest job on the face of the planet? Yeah, I really do and no I didn’t really understand it until I was one. Do I also believe that finding your identity after motherhood is one of the single most frustrating and elongated lessons that life can slap you in the face with? Also, a resounding, yes.

This space is my outlet, my journey to finding exactly who I am meant to be at this stage in my life. How to navigate life with the idea that I can have it all if I want it, but that its also ok if I don’t want it all, all the time. I’m learning to live authentically, without a care in the world about how others believe I should be. I’m a recovering people pleaser with a heart that still beats heavy for people and wants to find ways to show love and empathy and care without putting myself in a emotional deficit. I’m learning how to deal with the new anxieties of motherhood and friendship in my 30’s while simultaneously and unapologetically sharing the things that truly bring me joy.

Here, all are welcome. I will share my heart, some deep thoughts and some sillier ones, but all I ask for is kindness in return. Vulnerability is scary and the internet can be cruel but I know that somewhere out there is another class of 07 girlie hiding from her kiddo behind a locked bathroom door looking for five minutes of quiet to get her head on straight or a friend scrolling through Pinterest deciding if it’s a themed dinner night or an easy mac and dino nuggies dining experience – this is for her. I also know that there are women out there that simply want to master the art of charcuterie so that they can have all their adult Lunchables dreams come true and people that want to hear about the best beaches to escape their corporate burnout on – this is also for them. I don’t have to just one thing and this is will be where I document the multitude of things that make me, me. Also, I have a dog named Kihei. I really love her and it’s important that I include that.

Xoxo,

Gossip Girl.

Kiddddding. But see what I mean about chuegy ha.

-Stef