I can’t believe it has been nearly four months since I had LASIK surgery. Time flies when you have better than perfect vision! If I had to pick one word to describe my life after LASIK it would be easy. I don’t have to worry about looking for my glasses first thing in the morning… [Read More]
What it’s like to recover from double jaw surgery
Ten months ago I had double jaw surgery. Otherwise known as orthognathic surgery with a Le Fort 3 Osteotomy on my upper jaw and a Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy on my lower jaw. (Essentially my mouth was broken into five pieces and completely reconfigured.) Jaw surgery recovery was no joke but I survived and lived to… [Read More]
Veggie Tempeh Reubens
One of my favorite things I love to do when I travel is to find and taste the authentic food of that area. There’s nothing like eating gooey butter cake in St. Louis or a slice of pizza in New Haven. There is so much good food in this world and I love learning about… [Read More]
What it’s like to get LASIK
A little over a week ago I had LASIK eye surgery on both my eyes. It was simultaneously the scariest and easiest thing I’ve ever done. (Scariest being the days leading up to the procedure when I was worrying about lasers in my eyeballs! Easiest being the actual procedure, how quickly I saw results, and… [Read More]
Weekend Snapshots
It has been a long time since I’ve done a good old-fashioned snapshots post. I thought it would be fun to share our weekend as told through photos. Blogging used to be a lot more of an online diary, and sometimes I miss seeing what everyone’s life is like behind the curated content and Instagram… [Read More]
Supporting local: my favorite Omaha restaurants and shops
I’ve called Omaha home for the last five years now. That both feels like the blink of an eye and a lifetime. When I moved here, I was 22 years old. I had just graduated college and was married two weeks prior. The only time I had been to the Midwest before I moved here… [Read More]
My LASIK Consultation Experience
I’m a big believer in creating the future you want for yourself. We are in control of our actions, our decisions, and what we decide to accept or not accept in our lives. Last month I decided I was done with accepting glasses and contacts as a part of my life. I want to fix… [Read More]
Take the cash back give-back challenge this holiday season
I don’t even know how this happened, but we are right at the start of the holiday season. It’s a time of celebrations with loved ones, cherished traditions, delicious food, presents, and so much fun. This time of year makes me feel so lucky. I love my life and the people I share it with…. [Read More]
My Double Jaw Surgery Experience: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (2 weeks post-op)
On Thursday, August 23, 2018, I had double jaw surgery. This included a Le Fort 3 Osteotomy on my upper jaw and a Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy on my lower jaw. This corrective jaw surgery (otherwise known as orthognathic surgery) was done to fix skeletal and dental irregularities I was born with. Read on to hear… [Read More]
Supporting Local: Omaha Farmers Market & First National Bank
Summertime in Omaha is a beautiful thing. The sky is so blue and absolutely everything is in bloom. With ExO, I feel like I skipped most of summertime this year. Don’t get me wrong, it was completely worth it for all the valuable learnings and professional development I received, and I would do it over… [Read More]
Summer date night at an Omaha Storm Chasers baseball game
Summer time and the living is easy. Okay, while I like that song, those lyrics have been anything but true for me this summer. ExO has been incredibly stressful, time-consuming and overwhelming. And while I’m really, really loving it, I’m also having to make sure to schedule time to switch my brain off and get… [Read More]