Allie Testoni
Allie is calling Florida home again since leaving for college, sometimes all a girl needs to start a new chapter of her life is a little sunshine and endless amounts of tourists. She is a single/divorced mama bear to two little girls, and is excited to share what this new chapter of her life is teaching her. After obtaining a degree in Psychology, she found herself in the obvious career of starting her own business as a Makeup Artist (www.MakeupbyAllisonPaige.com) as well as the Jacksonville Moms Blog Sales Manager. Her days are filled with raising tiny humans with a positive co-parenting relationship, making meatballs so good your grandma would be jealous, mascara collecting, sarcasm and LOTS of love. When not at home Amazon Priming her entire life, you can find her at the beach, reading 3 different books at once, or having random dance parties wherever the music moves her.
Daughters, Please Know This…
In light of much that has happened in the last few years for women and girls, the good and the bad, I want my daughters to know a few important things. We have so...
Oddly Therapeutic
As a mother, heck, as a woman… as a human being, I look for things that will bring me some calm and peace during a hard day or week. I’m not talking massages or...
The Ultimate Jacksonville Brunch Bucket List
They (whoever they are) say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What is failed to be mentioned is, that brunch is. (Go ahead and try to change my mind.) People...
This Wasn’t In the Divorce Handbook
When you go to get a divorce, you are given ENDLESS documents and paperwork. Everything is in writing, and in the words of Stevie Wonder, “Signed, sealed, delivered... I’M YOURS!” Well, technically you end...
Getting My Pre-Baby Body Back with Cryotherapy
I am a woman who works out regularly(ish). By no means am I a gym rat, or one of those people who gets excited to workout. I get the job done, and there is...
Rewarding Myself This Holiday with SE Grocers Rewards
'Tis the season to go overboard and stress yourself out by going out of your way to deck the halls and try to make the holidays more magical than any of those Hallmark movies....
Hey Ladies, It’s Time for YOUR Checkup
I am (mostly) on time with every one of my kids doctor’s appointments, their vaccinations schedules (relax, this isn't one of those posts), and anything in between. Managing to make sure they are as healthy...
Taste of Italy: Celebrating Italian Month with Winn-Dixie
There is something about fall that gets me ready for all things food, and there is something about Winn-Dixie celebrating Italian month that helps put me in the mood even more. As an Italian-American...
Are Mom Tribes the New Cliques?
For a long period of time, I felt like I was missing out on a key piece of Millennial Motherhood. (Side note: I am at the elder end of the millennial thing and still...
Easy Weeknight Dinner Recipes for the Wonder Mom
I am a food-loving, cooking-calms-me, enjoy-a-great-new-restaurant kinda gal. Cooking calms my soul, and I know not everyone feels this way. Heck, I even have days where I’m just a woman staring at a fridge,...
Divorced (But Not Damaged)
When a divorce happens, it can feel like you’ve hit your rock bottom — as if you are this lost soul just roaming about, getting the bare minimum in life done each day. You...
You’re NOT a Single Mom Unless You’re Actually Single
I am a single mom EVERYDAY.
During my recent scroll through social media, as one does when she is wasting time, I heard a mom blogger (with a large following) say, "I’ve been a single...