Friday Five: Real Connections and New Home Update

PLUS: spending freeze speed bump

Welcome to Friday Five, where I share five things that are on my mind in the hopes of helping you connect to your Mom Flow. There are a lot of new subscribers this week, so a huge, warm welcome. We kinda like it here and you will, too.

P.S: don’t forget to listen to this like a podcast using the article voiceover feature at the top of this post.

💜 IRL Mom Flow

Well, this week was one for the books. I had my very first Mom Flow event with an amazing group of moms and set the scene to make for an evening of connection, like, AUTHENTIC connection. We had the best conversations, massages, dinner, and something we did that would be so so fun to do with your group of friends is “Mom-fessions”… tell me you don’t hold guilt and shame around something you’ve done or said as a mom? I know I have. Well, we all wrote that ‘Mom-fession’ anonymously on a piece of paper, and each of us read one out loud. It was so so freeing and we all had such a huge release. Highly recommend! The feedback was just heart bursting, and that’s what it’s about for me. OK, doesn’t that sound cheesy? Maybe. But it’s the truth. These events might be something I expand bc I think we are all craving IRL bonding… it’s so needed and so essential to mom life. I added to a highlight on IG here if you want to peek! Thanks so much to VITA Magazine for co-hosting, Shangri-La Hotel and COAST Restaurant for sponsoring the Mom Day event. Read the article pictured above, here.

🏠 Moving is actually… happening?!

SO, it’s really happening! The movers are booked, the paperwork is signed, we bought a new home. I cannot believe it. It’s been a huge dream of mine to own a property where Lola can walk to school, we have a yard, and that community feel. So much change is going to be happening over the next few months and I’m having all the feels about it. Obviously, moving is hard, and moving with a kiddo… ya, make that x10. I asked Lola how she was feeling about moving and she said she was feeling nervous. I am going to work on getting her accustomed to the idea over the next few weeks, hyping it up, reminding her that we will all be together and all of her stuff is coming with us.

👋 Unsubscribing to the hustle

You know what I’m super thrilled about?! Voices with influences denouncing hustle culture and the mentality of having more means you’ll be happier. Stassi (ok, heyyy Vanderpump Rules fans, I see you!) has a new book coming out called You Can’t Have it All and I’m so so excited to hear that this convo is becomingm ore mainstream. Burnout is so real and women are literally run off their feet trying to be everything to everyone and it doesn’t pay off. Have you ever felt this way? It’s just such a trap. The striving. The acquiring more. I feel MUCH happier when I peel things back and get back to basics, and I think doing so leaves room for more abundance. It’s exxxactly what I did from Jan-April and I defo think it brought amazing things my way. Pushing against the flow is just not it - I challenge you to do less for a bit and see what it brings.

📺 What I’ve been listening to, watching etc.

Here is what I have been or will be watching/listening to this week!

Selling the OC is starting again today (my personal fave is Buying Beverly Hills but I’ll take it)
Baby Reindeer - ummm, this one is dark so trigger warning
Understanding what the TikTok ‘ban’ means
The Valley - taking the place of Vanderpump for me, because RELATABLE
Stassi on why you can’t have it all (and that’s ok)
FYI: I’m the only person who hasn’t listed to Taylor’s new album, so there’s that 👀

😍 A few things you might like

I am on a spending freeze bc new home and Portugal trip… I mentioned this last week and I had a LOT of people ask about why, reminding me about the freeze when I posted we were going out to dinner etc. Can we agree this doesn’t mean not spending anything at ALL? For me it’s about drastically cutting out the nonsense. What I’m trying to say is…

Yes, I bought a new summer dress. So sue me. 😏

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xx, Erin

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