Essentially Erin

Sometimes in motherhood you have to remove the pain point and do what’s easy! Enter: food boards. One of my favorite ways to feed my kids when I’ve run out of lunch ideas. I’ve been doing this since my babies were very small and am still to this day, though the food board has gotten much bigger over the years 🥹

Do you food board too?!

Little roundup of words I’ve screenshot lately to start out your week. Which is your fav?

Really wish I’d had these 12 years ago, but I’m so happy there’s finally a good gummy prenatal option for mamas who want or need one. 

For years, choosing a gummy meant giving up nutrition. Most gummies trade nutrient density for taste and texture. Needed spent 4 years working with formulators to change that, and it shows:
✔️ 4x more nutrition than leading prenatals, capsules included*
✔️ Methylfolate plus choline, in 17 vitamins & minerals
✔️ No artificial sweeteners or synthetic dyes
✔️ Just 3 gummies a day in Orange Pineapple Passionfruit or Strawberry Banana, and they’re so good you’ll forget they’re vitamins.

The best prenatal is the one you’ll actually take. Now you don’t have to choose between the format you like and the nutrition you need. Needed does it right. Use my code EE20 at checkout to save 🫶🏼

*4x more nutrition refers to the average amount of vitamin and minerals compared to the average of the leading prenatal brands as of May 2026. Brand A: 8x, Brand B: 4x, Brand C: 4x, Brand D: 4x.”

From the drafts folder. Figure I better post before summer leaves us. I know some of you say it’s already fall but it’s 85 and sunny today so we’ll summer for as long as we can.

Does anyone reads captions anymore. I used to brain dump these long captions and I felt like it was such a great way to connect with other moms in the same season as me. Now our attention spans are destroyed and I’m not even sure we read things 🤣 but here goes…

I feel a shift of season approaching, not only the weather, but my own life.

I myself, me, Erin, am entering a whole new season. And it’s a little scary because for the last 14 years I have been deep in the season of having babies and loving it with my whole heart.

This last year I’ve really tried to move on from this long, most magical chapter. And writing that kind of destroys me, but after a year of grieving I think I’m actually ok with it. The door isn’t fully closed, and I’ll always leave it slightly open, but I also feel good about moving on.

People ask me how I’ve come to terms with it + I don’t have a solid answer other than my prayers shifted from “should I have another baby?” to - Lord if you want me to have another I want to + will but I ask you to make it abundantly clear otherwise I’m gonna try + come to terms with moving on and ask that you help me feel peace with that. Most days I’ve felt peace (now ask me how I feel after writing this like WAIT).

That picture of me holding Farrah - by now I’d have another newborn to hold - I will ache for it to my bones 💔

I will always cherish this season. More than any other. I’m also excited for a new one. One where I’m mom, but also Erin. One where I have more capacity to play + adventure with my kids as we grow up together. And one where I’m not always foggy from sleep deprivation and postpartum or pregnancy hormones. As beautiful as it is, it’s also been one of the most challenging, refining, and transformative seasons of my life. And yes, that’s the whole point.

Anyways - much more to say about this than this caption box can hold.

If you made it this far, well thank you for reading and listening to a little piece of my heart. Sure am grateful for you 🫶🏼

In no particular order - thank you for being here and letting me influence you 😘

Tell me it’s giving Carolyn Bessette or tell me nothing.

Comment SHOP for a link to this dress it’s perfection and so comfy!