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06/10/2022

Born to Party, Forced to Work 🪩 and a co-chair appreciation post: it was so much fun to work with (the 🐐) and the C100 on our annual luncheon, this year for party king ! The pre-party fell on my birthday and I couldn’t dream up a better way to kick off a fresh trip around the sun! 🥳 (Way belated in posting because apparently fall is the new…everything!? 🤪)

29/09/2022

I missed National Sons Day!!! (I was probably busy shuttling or feeding them 🚗🤵🏼‍♀️🥍⚽️⛹🏼‍♂️➡️👩🏼‍🍳🥓🍗🍟🍕🍝…🥦?)

21/09/2022

Yesterday was my birthday! I’m 37! 🥳 I remember when my mom turned 37. Which I know isn’t that impressive because I was 12 at the time and that was just like 10 years ago… right?

In all seriousness, I don’t feel 37. My oldest always tells me that I act 18 or 45. (45 when I’m in “work mode”.) I just feel like me, and I’ve never been able to say that with the clear confidence that I can say it with today. I feel like me.

Thank God for the obstacles that got me to this place.

I still have obstacles. Sometimes my brain decides to reroute me toward them, for no discernible reason. This birthday eve I was hit with a case of… why me? It doesn’t happen very often, but I felt like everything was suddenly heavy and no one was there to help me, as I wrangled three boys from a late soccer game to dinner, and into the bath, and then had to get everyone prepped and packed for the week and begin my own scheduling, clear email, and etc.

I didn’t feel like celebrating anything, and I felt like no one was supporting me.

I woke up at 3am on Monday. My first thought began to creep in “well, isn’t this just…”. I stopped. Nope. Not the vibe, SAP. Enjoy it. Soak in this moment and day because you CAN.

I mediated. For basically 3 hours 🤣 and when I opened my eyes the whole world was back to normal.

I had 2 little blondie boys snuggling all over me. “Mom? Yes? I love you.” All 3 of the boys rushed out to the kitchen to make me breakfast in bed à la Bluey, and I might be biased but it was honestly AMAZING and I never want to forget that scene and feeling.

I got to spend my morning working with friends, and my team created a video for my birthday that had me sobbing for HOURS. If you saw me crying in my car yesterday… yeah, you did.

I have never been more grateful and fulfilled for all of the messages I received.

I spent the evening with friends at the most amazing party, and took a long bath when I got home.

Honestly, 18, 37, and/or 45 year old me is so happy that I can stop and smell all these roses. I said it last year and I’ll say it again… can it get any better?!

28/08/2022

⚽️💙

19/08/2022

🫶🏻 July 🫶🏻

11/08/2022

🫶🏻Chatting all things connection, celebration, and support! Love building to innovate it all 📱💝

09/08/2022

✨I have been feeling SO incredibly humbled by the opportunity to work with the badass women on our team lately, as well as the amazing partners and investors, that are drawn to our company and its mission of connecting and celebrating. Everyone has a range of talents and experiences, but we all share a singular purpose: to bring more joy into the world by celebrating the life moments that deserve silver confetti, and also the moments that we describe as “silver linings”.

Silver linings aren’t a hostess gift or new baby bundle. Silver lining moments are when a friend has a child in the hospital (🙋🏼‍♀️), or someone is quietly ending their marriage (also 🙋🏼‍♀️).

Silver lining moments are the times that you don’t personally want to relive, but you look back, stronger, and realize that your community — whatever that looks like to you — was there for you.

Silver linings bring out the relationships and connections and support that give life a deeper meaning, and in retrospect, deserve a little celebration.

I am so inspired to build afloat and our place in the world for both kinds of celebrations, silver confetti (because YES fun and happy things!) as well as silver linings and couldn’t be more energized by everyone who has been drawn to afloat to do the same.

Our purpose and platform is going to make the world a better, happier, more celebratory, and connected place.

🥂Cheers to that.

27/07/2022

🐟 Reel Talk:

There are so many lessons in parenting. I learn so much from my boys and our experiences together. With my first I opened up, with my second I dug deep for patience, with the third I learned resilience. I genuinely 100p know that I wouldn’t have had what it took to leave my marriage, or start afloat, or completely re-orient my life, and navigate solo daily without having gone through many highs and many, many stumbles as a parent.

Now I’m learning about how to slow the eff down and soak up every second, even when it’s a time that’s “hard” or not “where I want it to be” in the moment.

Traveling alone has gotten exponentially easier and more enjoyable as my boys have gotten older, but… it’s still really hard.

I pack while parenting, referee every fight, make every decision. Throw in a trip to urgent care, and I’m smiling through a clenched jaw.

Mine are at the age where they’re self-sufficient (saying with a raised eyebrow to Boss 😉), but it’s exhausting and draining to rally for every outing and brush every head of hair (because even though they CAN do it… yeah, that’s not happening 😜). So, I’m learning to slow down and enjoy the process and it’s difficulties… because I’ll never get to experience this exact set of difficult moments again. And at the end of the day, I’m so appreciative of every second we have together.

So even if it’s hard, I’m going slow and soaking it all in. Any tips and tricks welcome 🤗

(And if you see me hollering threats toward the backseat… no you didn’t 😉).

18/07/2022

☀️June☀️

10/07/2022

P🎉A🎈R🎁T🪩Y time!

02/07/2022

5 🎉 4 🚀 3 🎇 2 💫 1 ❤️ … Happy birthday “baby” Boss!

30/06/2022

Playing zone defense since 2019 💚💙💚

23/06/2022

Something echoing within my friends right now: “I don’t have the summer figured out!” There’s so much pressure to have things perfectly planned for our kids. Was this pressure there before or is this Instagram making us feel it? 🥲 It’s easy to fall into the feeling that I need to sign up for everything, but with 3 kids… I just can’t! Unless I have chauffeurs, which is NOT in the budget haha.

13/06/2022

Drive-in movies and double 🌈s

03/06/2022

Love summer! 💚🤍💚

03/06/2022

💥 Re: requests for the whole video! LOVING and so grateful for this community’s enthusiasm for our women powered app that supports so so many women owned businesses. Video is on Tiktok and reposting here.

Unconscious gender bias? Communication style? Gap in consumer behavior? Women founders dressing too much like Big Bird? Jk on the last one (kinda😎) … would love to hear your thoughts!

08/05/2022

✨3✨ Mother’s Days of just us 3, and life has truly never been sweeter (or smellier).

18/04/2022

E🐰A🙏🏻S🌸T🐣E🌈R

07/04/2022

💝March💝

24/03/2022

Now 🔄 Then.

Then: Married. Professional hair and makeup. Outfits chosen weeks in advance. Planning weddings and parties for amazing clients, clubs, and organizations.

Also then: Always walking on eggshells at home. Insanely stressed out trying to keep it all together, looking good, and running smoothly. Emotionally taking on more than I could handle trying to be everything to everyone.

Now: Unmarried. Half-dry hair and tinted moisturizer. Clearly one child still in jammies 👑 Living in two cities building a tech start-up.

Also now: Happy. Fulfilled. Independent. Curious, passionate, and grateful. Every day. Even the ugly cry, hard ones.

Still working on only loading my plate an appropriate (and with the restraints of time and space) realistic amount, but the pressure somehow isn’t as emotional anymore.

I’m so proud of the lessons learned, the life and self rebuilt, and skills I’ve developed in 4 years. I always have work to do (currently working on plate loading… and PATIENCE), but these pictures made me insanely happy, and I couldn’t help but reflect and feel good. I forget to do that sometimes.

Then 🔄 Now. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.

14/02/2022

🤍love love love love crazy love🤍

27/01/2022

💝💝💝

26/01/2022

💝 So proud of our awesome team for making the 2022 Startups to Watch list! You can watch the replay and read all about afloat and the other amazing companies on the Startland News site. 🥳🥳🥳

01/01/2022

✨2021. Outtakes. Highlights. Etc.✨

25/12/2021

✨merry merry✨ our plans changed à la Covid (family, not us), so my crew is going casual and going with the flow! To all a good night!

06/12/2021

Big thanks ✨🙏🏻💝 to for the feature on afloat, our amazing Dallas stores, and our mission to celebrate relationships with gifting!

We soft-launched today 🎉🎉🎉 and boy has it been BUSY 🐝 Join our waitlist for early access in your city to the happiest place in the digital world !!!

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💥 Re: requests for the whole video! LOVING and so grateful for this community’s enthusiasm for our women powered app that supports so so many women owned businesses. Video is on Tiktok and reposting here. Unconscious gender bias? Communication style? Gap in consumer behavior? Women founders dressing too much like Big Bird? Jk on the last one (kinda😎) … would love to hear your thoughts!

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