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🙋🏻‍♀️ | real life family + mom blog
✉️ | hellofirstcomesfamily@gmail.com
📍 | Tampa, FL
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Sending Christmas cards is my top 2 favorite things to do in the holiday season! ✉️🎄I love being able to send our favorite photos from the year to family and friends all over the country. 🌍 My mom always sent them every Christmas growing up. Being traditional as I am, I have continued to do so myself every year since living on my own! ⁣
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I know personally, I love receiving cards and letters in the mail. Especially during the holidays which are filed with cute pictures of families and pets ☺️ Call me old school, but nothing beats a card that someone took the time to write in and mail to you 💌 ⁣
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Do you send Christmas cards? Tell me I’m not the only one!⁣
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#tampamom #vistaprint #christmascards #mombloggers

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Behind every cute photo like this is a mom and dad making obnoxious sounds, telling her she’s pretty, squeezing a @sophielagirafe_usa , a mom in a dress sweating her ass off, a perfect photographer laughing at us @megdreyfus , and a baby crawling all over. Boy are photos fun with babies 👶🏻 ⁣
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ALL worth it for images like THIS😍🥰⁣
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#tampamom #mombloggers #babyphotography #6monthsoldbaby #babyblogger

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My response every time someone asks how Vivian is sleeping 💤 😅 ⁣
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We “sleep trained” Vivian back in September when she was 4 months old using @babysleeptrainer method. But I’m getting real tired of 2-3 wake ups every night 😅😴 ⁣I know it’s normal but dang it sucks and I know I’m not the only one. ⁣

I’m open to any tips from you mamas!

#sleeptraining #momproblems #letterboardquotes #elf

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Different day, Different Christmas light display 💡🎄 ⁣
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The @chickfila about 20 minutes from our house does an amazing light display! Like super legit and needs to be on @thegreatchristmaslightfight 👏🏻⁣
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Does anyone else love driving around looking at Christmas lights?! Because those are my kinda people 🎄👏🏻

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I LOVE being this girl’s mama. It is still so surreal to me that I am her mom. It feels like a dream being able to hold her in my arms and know that she’s all mine. ⁣
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I know that sometimes there’s multiple middle of the night wakings (which are sometimes draining)... but every single time, I end up holding her a little longer. Soaking up her needing me so heavily in these months. How I am her entire world..all she knows.⁣
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I wouldn’t trade the world for being her mama. And I’d give the world to always be her mama. ❤️ mama.

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7 MONTHS with my little angel😇 This girl can sit up on her own, crawls like crazy and is such a chatter box! SLOW time down please ... I love this age so much ❤️ #milestonebaby #7monthsold #mombloggers

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✨Nothing like kicking off Christmas like going to @enchantstpetersburg 🎄 It is the the worlds largest maze of Christmas lights and it does not disappoint! This was the first year they hosted in the Bay Area and I hope they do it again 🙏🏻⁣
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👶🏻This was our first time using our @ergobaby 360 carrier and loved how Vivi was able to face inward or outward. But.. she did get rather annoyed after an hour. ✨ Any tips on baby wearing mamas?!? #enchantchristmas #tampamom #babywearingmama #ergobaby #mombloggers

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Breastfed babies be like.....⁣
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Happy Thanksgiving from our little turkey to yours 🦃 ⁣
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😂Swipe for the reality of trying to take this picture 😅⁣
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(photo inspo: @cbchatman ) #breastfedbaby #normalizebreastfeeding #breastfeedingmama #breastfeedingproblems

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✨𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲✨⁣
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Vivi has come down with a little cold. 🤧 I’ve heard fantastic things about salt room therapy (halotherapy). We checked out @thesaltroomwc this afternoon for a 45 minute session in their kids room.⁣
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🧩They have an array of toys, books, and seating for parents and kiddos to soak in the salt. ⁣
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𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐩:⁣
•Brings socks to wear (they give you foot coverings as well)⁣
•Wear a long sleeve (it can be a little chilly)⁣
•Don’t wear anything you don’t mind getting covered in salt (salt literally is blown out of a vent)⁣
•Hydrate! Be sure to drink plenty of water before & after.⁣
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Vivi’s nose was running like crazy in there, thank goodness for the provided tissues. Another plus is that the salt is antibacterial🙌🏻 It also helps with sinus infections, Inflammation, acne and so much more. I’d call this a mom win👏🏻⁣
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❄️Have you done salt therapy before?! Tell me your experience!

#salttherapy #thesaltroom #tampamom #tampablogger #halotherapy

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My little shopping buddy and I braved the grocery stores this week 😱 It is complete chaos any time of the day! Thank goodness we grabbed everything we need because if I have to step foot into Publix tomorrow I may have a heart attack 🙃 ⁣
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🍗Take this as your reminder to make sure you have all of your thanksgiving groceries before you’re half way into chopping pecans for your sweet potato casserole and forget the sweet potatoes 😅⁣
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Also, Vivi can officially sit in the cart and breaks my heart because she’s such a big girl 😢

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Hubby and I were just talking about how awesome Tampa is. There is endless activities no matter the day. 🌇⁣⁣
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❄️With that being said, we checked out @wintervillagetampa this afternoon! There is ice skating, vendors, snacks, hot cocoa, and drinks! They also host Christmas movies on the lawn at sun down on select weekends. 🎄⁣⁣
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Since Vivi is a little too small, we couldn’t skate. But planning a date night to come back 👫⛸ ⁣⁣
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☃️What events does your town have to offer during the holidays?!⁣⁣
⁣⁣ #tampamom #momblogger #holidaytraditions #thingstodointampa

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Trying to contain this girl so I can work on some holiday gift guides for y’all! 🎁She isn’t quite crawling but she works around the best she can which is already keeping me busy 😅

I give all of you stay at home working moms credit!! I can barely get anything done between naps, feeding, watching them, etc. You guys are the real superheroes here! 🥇

Stare your tips for getting work done with busy babies 👇🏻

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Every few months, we pack away those tiny onesies and jammies all while shedding a few tears. Now that Vivian is 6 months old, looking back at newborn sized clothing really makes it feel like forever ago. ⁣
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It’s incredible because no matter their height, weight or clothing size, they fit perfectly in our arms. My arms hold her while she feeds, when she’s fussy, when she’s refusing to sleep, when she’s sleeping, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I never want the day to come that she does fit in my arms. I never want to the day to come that she doesn’t want to be in mommy’s arms. ⁣
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Can we just press pause on these days? The days where our arms are home to our sweet babies.

#mombloggers #thisismotherhood #momtruths #tampamom

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There is only one word to explain motherhood lately for me: 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠.⁣
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😫Today was one of those days. (I’ve actually had several of these days) We all have them as moms or not. Every single thing was getting on my nerves. Probably didn’t help that my day started at 5:30 am with a wide awake baby. ⁣
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☕️I felt like I just wanted to buy an overpriced latte, drive to a parking lot, blast some obscene rap music and sing my heart out. (I’m totally that suburban mom with the gangster playlist) Heck maybe, I wanted to drive to a beach and not come home for days.⁣
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👯‍♀️I know that I’m not alone. We all get this feeling. It may because we are relied on so heavily and not used to it. We miss the days where you could literally not answer your phone and stay in bed for 72 hours and the world would keep turning. ⁣
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🌙These days that feel never ending will be over in a few short years. As nice as it’ll be to have some freedom, I know that I’ll miss these exhausting and overwhelming days more than anything. ⁣
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*𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺.*

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Sunday Mood 🍩 Wishing I had @five_daughters_bakery donuts right now 😋 Currently making our grocery list (trying to eat as clean as we can before thanksgiving..trying) while Lee is doing check in number 2 because we are SLEEP TRAINING all over again 🙃 Adding wine to the grocery list ASAP

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Do you ever wonder what your children’s favorite childhood memory will be one day?⁣⁣
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We often will take a compilation of our favorite childhood experiences and try to recreate them. Whether it’s traveling, sports games, reading, playing chess, etc. Whatever you choose, will become one of their childhood highlights one day. ⁣⁣
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That’s why we are choosing to show them the world. Show them that dinners should be phone-less and chatting about our day. Show them that you can have hours of fun playing in the ocean. Show them that there is so much to life.⁣⁣
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Choose to show them everything and more.⁣⁣
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#mombloggers #minimalistparenting #momsofinsta

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