About Me: The Beginning

Hi! Welcome to my blog! This is a space where I am going to share mostly lifestyle content, but really focusing in on events in my life related to fitness, fashion, beauty, and travel. Although, I wanted my first post to give you an overall sense of who I am and what I wanted to share with you all on my blog.

I was born on April 18, 2004 in Pennsylvania, where I still live today. I have two divorced parents, Stacey and Matt. In addition, I have a sister named Anna and four step-siblings: Tyler, Anissa, Ryan, and Kayla. I also have a step-dad named Teddy, a step-mom named Jaime, and two guinea pigs, Cocoa and Pumpkin. I have always loved school, dancing, staying organized, traveling, and beauty. Other interests of mine include: hand lettering/practicing calligraphy, exercise, fashion, jewelry, watching YouTube and Netflix, drawing, reading, writing, and interior design. I love minimalism, the feeling of being organized and not having too much stuff, although I’m still working on that! Additionally, my favorite food is potatoes because like I tell everyone you can have them any way. There’s mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, french fries, potato skins, baked potatoes, twice-baked potatoes, home fries, hash browns, pierogies, and tater tots. Basically, you get the point… but I love them! My favorite holiday is Christmas because I love celebrating Jesus, Christmas Eve church service, giving to others, and baking cookies. My mom, sister, and I bake our traditional cookies every year together. Some of my favorites are: peanut butter, sugar cookie cut outs, chocolate chip, super shooter butter cookies, cherry coconut bars, and apricot kiffles (Can you tell I’m writing this at a time when I’m craving cookies?!). I look forward to them every year! Lastly, once I graduate college, I would like to be an elementary school teacher. I am hoping to get my masters degree in elementary education and english. One of the reasons is that most of my favorite teachers along the way have been my english/language arts teachers. I can still remember my fourth grade teacher who made me realize that I really wanted to be a teacher and why I wanted to be one. I haven’t thought of another job since. Also, I would eventually love to have a family of my own.

The part of my journey related to fitness really only started 2 years ago from this past July, so I'm still new and learning things everyday about that. But, I hope to still share what I have learned over the best 2 years of my life.

All of that being said, I hope you'll join me on my journey throughout these crazy lives we live and hopefully we can help each other out because no one person can do it on their own!

Stay Fit & Fabulous, Maddie