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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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