Okay, I feel really awful that I thought I was about to start up writing again and little did I know, it would take another 2.5 years until my next entry… Oops! Anyhow, should I do another life update? Well I suppose I can start there. The biggest news is ...
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Okay, I feel really awful that I thought I was about to start up writing again and little did I know, it would take another 2.5 years until my next entry… Oops! Anyhow, should I do another life update? Well I suppose I can start there. The biggest news is that we purchased a home exactly a year ago! Honestly, 2025 was such a testament to saying yes to God! It was such a fruitful year full of new beginnings.

HOUSE

My mother in law was diagnosed for a second time with liver cancer last March of 2025. For some reason, I felt incredibly compelled to visit her on Monday. Which is very bizarre because I usually have work on Monday but I told Hoan we had to go. As we drove into the neighborhood I saw a house for sale. Since Hoan and I were actively searching for a home, I was curious. Hoan and I also did say that if a nice house popped up in their neighborhood we would consider it. But we were never very serious bc we ultimately wanted to stay in West Seattle.

I looked online to see if I could find the listing but unfortunately could not. However, I found what would eventually become our house on Redfin. Took Lucky on a walk to go check out, we called up Justin, our realtor to meet us and we saw it that evening at 7pm. They were reviewing offers in 2 days so we had to act fast. We reached out to the lender, put in the offer and it was accepted on Wednesday afternoon! We beat out about 6 other offers, thanks be to God. And honestly, it was the best yes I had ever done. It’s been an absolute blessing living near Hoan’s parents! Truly so fun and special. It’s really helped me to grow in my love and appreciation for family.

 

Celebrating Jubilee

The Catholic church celebrated Jubilee last year in 2025. Honestly, I feel mixed about this but ultimately I’m so grateful we did this. Hoan originally wanted to celebrate his 40th in Asia with his family. However, because I discovered it was Jubilee I said I wanted to go to Europe again. Like how cool would it be to visit and pay homage in this special year? Well… for some reason, in my heart I felt a calling to bring both sets of parents with us on our Europe trip. I was like eeeeeeeeeek, I knew it was going to be a good chunk of change but we made it happen. I want to give a huge shout out to Hoan for being down to make it happen. We ended up going to London, Paris, Lourdes, Rome, Milan and the Amalfi coast! It truly was a trip was a lifetime!!

ASIA

Well sure enough, I did my best to still celebrate Hoan’s 40th birthday and still encouraged him that we should go. With all of the expenses we had this last year… it made it really hard. House, furnishing the house, our prius died so we had to get a new car, biz also was sluggish for Hoan as well. SO IT WAS HARD. But I’m so grateful we made it happen! We ended up going to Vietnam, Thailand and a day in Osaka! I told Hoan that he should design and plan it the way he wanted. And I’m so glad he had a great time. It was super restorative. We even did a 3 day juice cleanse while we were in Thailand. We also stayed at one of the most epic Hilton properties ever, Conrad Koh Samui. We loved it so much that Hoan already booked rooms for the end of this year 2026!

Hello again after almost 4 years of not writing a blog post! I’m back and I can’t believe it. So much has changed since my last entry back in January of 2021. I look back on this website and realize how much I’ve grown as a person. I think I’ve always had a desire to grow and evolve but I never foresaw what would happen these last four years.

I’ve experienced what you’d call an awakening of sorts on my journey to seeking truth. I’ve deepened my connection with God and my Catholic faith, I’ve grown a massive interest in politics and I feel this deep desire to give back in a way that feels aligned with who I am now. I have so many ideas for this blog and all of a sudden feel so inspired to write to you all again, Alleluia! I can’t wait to share more about our Catholic faith, God, what I’ve learned on our fertility journey, healthy living and current events just to name a few ideas I have! I’ve grown so passionate about living a life aligned with Christ! Here are a few updates and highlights since January 2021…

In 2021, I was still actively creating content for brands… I had a few fun collabs with a Remington a hair tool, Alderbrook, a luxury hotel in Washington, authentication nation, went to Vegas with family, saw friends in California and Minnesota, we officially started trying for a baby in the spring, my brother got married. Started working on the Fellowship team at work as an infusion nurse, went to Tulum… and I will never forget this conversation I had with Teresa who was a fellow content creator on our retreat and we were openly talking about some health stuff and that’s when I felt things were beginning to shift for me.

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In 2022… Ann and I went on a bff trip to Vegas, I was shifting more into fashion content on IG, I went to Asia for the first time to Japan and Vietnam, started acupuncture for the first time and this was I would say, one of the darkest times of my life. I remembering being at my wits end in Vietnam, crying over getting my period like legit sobbing my brains out… feeling like I had nothing else to live for and on that same trip, I landed in Thailand and found out twitch had died by so called suicide and something just completely switched for me. Something woke up inside me and I started beginning to understand the difference between good and evil and the spiritual war at play every single day in our lives.

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2023, I was still doing monthly clothing collabs which was a ton of fun! Still working as an infusion RN up until fall when a PDS position FINALLY opened up at SCI! I applied, got the job it’s been the best decision I’ve made so far, career-wise! I was really worried about working full time, but boy this position has given me more flexibility, weird to say I know but I also felt like I really kinda grew up when I got the full time gig lol. I won a scholarship at work to attend ONS Congress in San Antonio for the first time and that was an absolute blast!

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As far as fertility, we were deep in our fertility struggles. I was doing acupuncture, on a bunch of supplements through Dr. Sklar, my PMS symptoms were slowly getting better! Instead of 10/10 pain every cycle, it was only happening on days 1 and 3, still painful but could be managed by a lot of natural remedies like ginger, turmeric, tinctures, etc. And this was when I was beginning to open my eyes to the power of natural remedies! I just thought man how beautiful that God has created these things in nature for us to help heal our bodies! I was still working on leaning into having faith in God and I felt like my relationship with him was growing but I wasn’t as serious as it is now.

We were so inspired by our global travels that I wanted to check out Europe for a change. It was sparked by the Our Rich Journey group we joined, and Hoan was like oh hey their meet up is in Portugal and honestly Europe was never on my radar and I was like, I’m down! And man, did that blow my mind!! I feel like that trip was a catalyst into my perspective of the world, and life. Maybe I’ll talk about that another time…

In other news, my brother had a baby!!! He was the greatest gift to my side of the family!! Oh and we got LUCKY too!!!! Our nieces and nephews also gave us so much joy and really gave me so much love I didn’t know I needed, Mother’s day this year was honestly kinda heartbreaking but Hoan’s family did a mother’s day celebration and I even got celebrated for my God Mother duties. Like ugh! How sweet was that… I’m tearing up as I write that… <3 Gosh, 2023 was such a blessing of a year despite having to go through so much with our infertility journey. I realized I wanted to continue to seek out God and goodness and I really felt God gave that to us in 2023.

As for 2024… Let’s do that in another post. Boy, if you’ve gotten this far. Thank you for your time and love! I cherish you more than you know!! God bless and so happy to be back <3

I am a huge fan of positive affirmations and there’s so much power in writing but also speaking them out loud. In this blog post I am sharing 50 I AM positive affirmations. You can use them for anything throughout your day. Whether it be saying them aloud in the AM, writing them over and over again in your journal or allowing one to become your mantra. Whatever it may be, I hope that these affirmations serve you in your life wherever you are my love.

I AM AFFIRMATIONS

1. I am empowered
2. I am strong
3. I am enough
4. I am brave
5. I am confident
6. I am exactly where I’m supposed to be
7. I am bold
8. I am abundant
9. I am filled with gratitude
10. I am thriving
11. I am worthy
12. I am healing
13. I am renewed
14. I am beautiful
15. I am loved
16. I am a badass
17. I am a fighter
18. I am confident
19. I am committed to my dream
20. I am the hero of my story
21. I am creative and innovative
22. I am living the most intentional life
23. I am strong
24. I am whole
25. I am having a breakthrough
26. I am filled with grit and determination
27. I am breathtaking
28. I am embraced with love
29. I am focused
30. I am a hustler
31. I am a dreamer of possibilities
32. I am warrior
33. I am a visionary
34. I am resilient
35. I am at peace with where I am
36. I am expanding my consciousness
37. I am energized
38. I am in perfect balance and harmony
39. I am a believer
40. I am aligned
41. I am leveling up
42. I am inspired and inspiring others
43. I am the perfect manifester
44. I am invested
45. I am the perfect creator
46. I am equipped with everything I need
47. I am receiving all that is mine
48. I am a boss
49. I am more than capable
50. I am a leader
51. I am a legend
52. I am wealthy
53. I am healthy
54. I am a powerhouse
55. I am fearless
56. I am deserving
57. I am in control
58. i am a money magnet
59. I am blessed

Hope these positive affirmations serve you in where you are and where you are going my beauties! Until next time, stay beautiful and completely aligned with who you are on the inside and the outside!