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2017 Wrap Up & Skin Care Like A Boss

We're reflecting on 2017, the good and the challenging, and have a guest appearance from past Erica and Kelsey.

Cocktail

We tried the $5 California Roots pinot grigio from Target and we approve!

Wrapping up 2017

We give chronological Cliff Notes for each of our families in 2017.

Erica's word of Forward and Kelsey's of Choose and how those influenced our year.

Our bests of 2017:

Place you went

Erica: Fairmont Princess

Kelsey: Arizona Inn for Chris’s 40th birthday

Book you read

Neither of us could pick just one!

Erica: Born a Crime audiobook, Commonwealth, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

Kelsey: Gentleman in Moscow and Little Fires Everywhere

Podcast and/or music you listened to

Erica: Beyoncé's Lemonade

Kelsey: More Perfect and Still Processing (especially the A Journey to the 'Blacksonian' episode and the We Get Biracial episode).

Movie or television show

Erica: Narcos, Game of Thrones (obv), West World

Kelsey: Stranger Things, The Glass Castle

Habit (old or new)

Erica: Skin care like a boss

Kelsey: Consistently tracking my spending in Mint - recapping my personal allowance spending each month on my blog

New thing you tried

Erica: microfiber cleaning cloths

Kelsey: mint tea in the mornings, especially with some soy creamer and spiced honey

Thing you bought

Erica: home gel manicure kit

Kelsey: Instant Pot

Obsessions

Erica is obsessed with eating Country Archer jerky as a snack. Kelsey is obsessing over Brother Room and having her boys sleep in the same room.


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