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So between this pregnancy and my first, I’ve rounded up all of my favorite tried and true maternity must-haves with fashion, health, beauty, and wellness essentials to make pregnancy a little more easy breezy for y’all. Shea Butter – OK, I am biased because I love a good moisturizer, and my sister happens to own a natural skin care line. I’ve also seen her products work wonders on bruises, and burns so I have been applying her shea butter to my belly since I started showing. Biker shorts were a lifesaver as a way to prevent chub rub and swamp ass under dresses and a comfortable alternative to traditional shorts (that did not fit).

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you know that I have been posting about the Traffic Secrets Challenge, and Russell Brunson’s book; Traffic Secrets: I began this challenge to learn key strategies to increase organic traffic to my blog, and gain more engagement on social media. Traffic Secrets teaches you how to navigate to where your dream customers congregate and get your business in front of them in a way that is organic and beneficial. I believe the strategies in this section will be the most helpful in growing my blog and my social media presence in an organic way.

It took time for me to understand that we don’t always have to see eye to eye on every issue, but we’re both worthy of respect regardless of this. Travel can test your patience, it allows you to spend real quality time together, and it helps you to get to know someone without all of the normal societal pressures. My husband is a surgeon, and I’m a stay at home mom, so we both have SUPER hard days from time to time. We’ve grown to know when each other needs some extra TLC which means the tv goes off, Xavier gets a solo play activity and we make time and space for one another to talk.

Stay home = stay cooking! This is all new territory for me; mainly because my husband isn’t usually home as often as he is now, and we try to break up meals by going out to eat a few times during the week. As soon as I realized we would be under the stay at home order longer than we thought, I knew I had to tackle this cycle of daily non-stop cooking to maintain my sanity. If you’re over the excessive amount of cooking that comes with being home 24/7, try some of the recipes listed below.