Weekly Wins is a series where I touch on my “wins” from the week in the categories of love, do, buy, eat, give, read, tech, watch and wear. It’s 100% my favorite post to write. Enjoy! 

Did you have a fun St. Patty’s Day? Will you judge me if I tell you that I kind of failed in celebrating this year?? While I’m typically all about the green, I didn’t even dress for the occasion this week, nor did I dress B up either. Wah wahhhh. And I’m kind of feeling guilty about it now {even though Brods doesn’t know the difference}, but there’s always next year, right!?!?

LOVE: 
Ummm, you guys!! Exciting news in my life!! For 14 and a half months I’ve been waiting for Brods to say MAMA and on Wednesday, my dreams FINALLY came true!!!!! I mean, what took him so long?!?!? I’ve probably said this amazing word 900,547,000,000,000,000 times since B was born in hopes of him catching on and in that time, he had said it once. AND THEN NEVER AGAIN {insert angry devil emoji here} But on Wednesday, he said it in the smack dab middle of the day – completely out of nowhere – and hasn’t stopped!!!! Music.To.My.Ears!!!!!!!! Anyways, the fact that he’s now saying mama is the best thing ever but even better is HOW he says it! He smacks his lips together so hard trying to get the word out and it’s so sweet and so hilarious all at the same time. Take a look at the babe in action on my insta!! {and follow me, too, while you’re at it!}

 

The highlight of my week! #finally #mamasboy #mrbrodymax

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DO:
I went to the Chicago Wine Riot with my besties Alyse and Blake and we had a pretty epic night! I think we literally tasted over 250 wines from around the world… which just so happens to be their slogan if you didn’t know. HA. But seriously; we had A LOT of wine! We decided that we’re going to make it a tradition for years to come, something that I obvioussssssssly look forward to. For those of you living in the chi, you should definitely check it out when it comes back next year because I mean, who doesn’t enjoy trying tons of different types of wine?!?! 

BUY:
Wine Wipes! Ahhh omg I’m ridiculous and I’ll tell you why: since I knew Blake, Alyse and I were going to the Wine Riot I bought one box of these Wine Wipes for each of us before hand. Obviously I planned to give it to my friends at the event but Oooops! I accidentally forgot them! Anyways, I did give Blake her wipes this week and I opened my box after having an after-dinner-glass on Monday night. Guess what… they really do work! The perfect solution for those grimy red wine teeth stains! I bought them via Amazon HERE.

EAT:
Brody and I ate lunch this week in Greek Town. I love me some greek food! And so does Brody!! I decided to order gyros to go thinking I would give it to him for dinner at some point during the week. Welllll, that turned into me eating it for dinner one night as well BUT I repurposed it for myself and created gyros TACOS!! I toasted corn tortillas, then put the gyros inside of each taco, along with tzatziki and lettuce. OMG they were so yum! {reminder: i can’t eat pita so corn tortillas were the next best thing!} And filling too! You can probably repurpose anything into a taco and it would taste delish! Try it for yourself and report back por favor!

GIVE: 
My niece’s second birthday was on Tuesday and her birthday party is this weekend. I’ve already bought and wrapped her gift {obviously!} and I’ll tell you guys what it is BUT you have to keep it a secret until she opens it on Sunday, okay?! Thanks!!! So I got her this really freaking cool Beauty Boutique Play Hut {more details here}! I kind of want it for myself. Don’t tell anyone that either. Ahahahassssshhhhh

PS if you’re in need of buying a FIRST birthday gift: Wednesday’s post featured 15 tested and approved gifts for all one-year-olds!!

READ: 
It’s Throwback Friday so let’s throw it back to an older post of mine… all about The Honest Company! I know in last week’s Weekly Win’s post I touched on how OBSESSED I am with their diapers but in case you weren’t aware, before baby, I was already using a ton of their products! One that has stuck around as my all time fave is their Shampoo + Body Wash! The title of this #tbf post that’s an absolute MUST READ is called “The Honest Company Saved Me” so if you want to find out more, head on over to that blog post now after you finish reading this post!

TECH: 
The Elmo Calls app {$1.99 in the app store} for your little ones!! First of all, you open up the app and it starts ringing, then you answer like you would a normal FaceTime phone call and all the sudden Elmo is talking to your child on the screen!!!!!! Not only is it genius but it’s also the cutest thing ever!! My friend Lauren turned us onto it this week and Brody is mesmerized with it! Each FaceTime phone call is different and covers various topics such as health, self-confidence, and letters! 

WATCH:
Obviously my watch-win this week was the Bachelor Finale AND the After The Final Rose live show!! Did you think I was going to mention anything else?!? Ha. So, you guys, the bach producers totally had me fooled… regarding a bunch of different things actually. I always thought Lauren was the girl that Ben was going to choose BUT after watching the promos when he was talking on the phone, I for sure figured that he had told her he was picking JoJo then called her back once she left, realizing he made the wrong choice. Ummm, it did not go down like that at all! They GOT ME! Then, I was completely convinced that Caila was going to be the next bach, well, only because US Weekly wrote an article “confirming” the news and even though I didn’t want to believe it,  I totally believed it. I wasn’t a huge fan of her so I was not too thrilled about it, at all. Wellllll, fast forward to Chris announcing that JoJo is going to be the next Bachelorette and I screamed so loud that I’m surprised I didn’t wake the Brodster up! SO HAPPY! Seriously, that news made.my.week. And now, instead of going into the next season annoyed {whenever it airs… we have a while}, I feel so super excited! Brody’s happy too… see for yourself here.

WEAR:
This pink top! It comes in other colors too but I fancy the pink! It’s called the burnout raw edge sweatshirt and let me tell you, it’s SO PERFECT! It’s not really a sweatshirt so much as it’s really lightweight but it’s supes {yes, I just said supes, as in super, ahahha} comfy and OMG oh so soft! It’s one of those great run-around-town-and-do-your-errands kind of tops! You can shop it HERE! 

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What’s up this weekend?? Any fun plans? Let me know in the comments section now!