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  • New Year Reflection for Working Moms: A Gentle Reset Without Resolutions

    New Year Reflection for Working Moms: A Gentle Reset Without Resolutions

    The days right before the New Year always feel a little strange. Christmas has passed.The noise has quieted.Work is still there. Life is still full.And yet — something is shifting. If you’re a working mom, this in-between space can feel heavy. You’re tired from December, already hearing the pressure of January, and everywhere you look…

    Aurora Means

    December 26, 2025
    Journaling, Memory Making, motherhood, photography, Self Care, winter
    Family, life, mental-health, mindfulness, personal-growth, photography, Self Care, writing
  • Christmas Magic for Working Moms

    Christmas Magic for Working Moms

    Simple Ways to Create Meaningful Moments (Even at the Last Minute) If you’re a working mom reading this just a few days before Christmas, let me guess — you’re exhausted. Work didn’t slow down just because it’s December.Your calendar is full.Your house probably isn’t as “ready” as you thought it would be by now.And somewhere…

    Aurora Means

    December 21, 2025
    baking, christmas, Family, Journaling, Memory Making, motherhood, photography, winter
    baking, christmas, Family, fiction, holiday traditions, holidays, home, life, Memory Making, photography
  • Slow Living for Working Moms: How to Find Calm Without Changing Your Whole Life

    Slow Living for Working Moms: How to Find Calm Without Changing Your Whole Life

    How to Embrace Slow Living as a Working Mom There’s this quiet pressure that comes with the idea of slow living. It looks like early mornings, homemade bread, unhurried afternoons, and a life that somehow unfolds without deadlines, commutes, or emails waiting in your inbox. Slow living for working mom’s can seem like an unachievable…

    Aurora Means

    December 16, 2025
    baking, Family, Gardening, Journaling, Memory Making, motherhood, photography
    baking, Family, flowers, home, life, love, mental-health, slow-living
  • The Perfectly Imperfect Christmas

    The Perfectly Imperfect Christmas

    For Mom’s Who are Tired and Still Trying I’ll be honest — I don’t have the energy for a perfect Christmas this year. I work.I’m tired.Most days I’m just trying to get everyone fed and into bed without losing my patience. And for a long time, I thought that meant I was falling short. But…

    Aurora Means

    December 13, 2025
    baking, christmas, Family, Memory Making, motherhood, winter
    baking, christmas, cookies, Family, holidays, home, life, Memory Making, photography, recipes, traditions
  • Motherhood in December: Soft Days, Small Town Magic & the Cozy Rhythm of the Season

    Motherhood in December: Soft Days, Small Town Magic & the Cozy Rhythm of the Season

    Hi friend, December arrived quietly this year — not in a dramatic rush, but in a soft, familiar way that settled into our home almost before I realized it. The kind of winter that invites you in gently… with twinkle lights, warm evenings, and small traditions that end up meaning more than anything else. Maybe…

    Aurora Means

    December 9, 2025
    Family, motherhood, Uncategorized, winter
    christmas, Family, home, life, traditions
  • The Heart of December: Cozy Evenings, Christmas Lights & the Magic We Make Without Trying

    The Heart of December: Cozy Evenings, Christmas Lights & the Magic We Make Without Trying

    Hi friend, December always arrives like a soft whisper — a little colder, a little gentler, a little more filled with possibility. I don’t know about you, but every year I feel myself shifting with it. Slowing down. Pressing pause on the busy parts of life. Tuning in more closely to the things that actually…

    Aurora Means

    December 7, 2025
    baking, Family, Journaling, motherhood, photography, Uncategorized, winter
    baking, christmas, Family, holidays, home, life, lifestyle, photography
  • A Letter for the Start of Winter: Slowing Down, Making Magic, and Finding Peace in the Quiet

    A Letter for the Start of Winter: Slowing Down, Making Magic, and Finding Peace in the Quiet

    Hi Friend, I’m writing this curled up on the couch with a blanket around my legs, the soft glow of a candle flickering on the coffee table, and the faint scent of cinnamon still hanging in the air from the cookies we baked earlier. The house feels a little extra quiet tonight — almost like…

    Aurora Means

    November 30, 2025
    Family, Journaling, motherhood, photography, winter
    baking, christmas, Family, holidays, home, home-decor, Journaling, life, lifestyle, mindfulness, motherhood, photography, winter
  • Slow Living in November: Preparing the Heart and Home for Winter

    Slow Living in November: Preparing the Heart and Home for Winter

    November is a soft month, a month that offers a gentle in-between. Autumn’s colors fade, winter has not yet arrived, and the year itself seems to pause—breathing in, holding space, inviting stillness. It’s in November that the earth teaches us how to slow down. The trees shed what they no longer need. The light grows…

    Aurora Means

    November 9, 2025
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  • Gratitude in the Ordinary: What I’m Thankful For Right Now

    Gratitude in the Ordinary: What I’m Thankful For Right Now

    There’s something about November that pulls us inward—with its soft gray skies, its crisp mornings, and the early drift of evening. As autumn fades and the page turns toward the holidays, I’m reminded of the power of noticing the little things—the moments that never make the highlight reels, yet quietly shape the days we live…

    Aurora Means

    November 2, 2025
    baking, Fall, Family, Journaling, motherhood, photography
    baking, Family, gratitude, home, life, memories, mental-health, mindfulness, Self Care, thankfulness
  • A Letter to My Past and Future Self: Noticing the Tiny Moments

    A Letter to My Past and Future Self: Noticing the Tiny Moments

    There’s beauty waiting in the smallest corners of our days — in the in-between, the imperfect, and the almost-missed. This letter is for the version of me who was too busy to see it, and for the version who will one day look back and wish for just one more moment. Dear Me, Slow down.…

    Aurora Means

    October 19, 2025
    Family, motherhood, photography, Uncategorized
    Family, home, life, photography
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