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06/03/2026

One thing I’ve gotten better at over the years is protecting the parts of life that refill me 🤍

Sometimes that’s a quiet night at home.

Other times it’s a Friday evening spent wandering a garden with a glass of wine, charcuterie, and good company (that’d be MM 🤪).

After a long week, we traded scrubs for the Rodin Garden Bar, a summer pop-up tucked away at the Rodin Museum, and spent the evening in one of the prettiest corners of Philadelphia. It felt like a pretty great no-vacation-required reset.

PSA for my Philly people: every Friday through August, the Rodin transform into an open-air beer and wine garden with food from , drinks, relaxing energy, and Pay What You Wish museum admission. Exactly the kind of experience that makes ordinary weeks a little more memorable. ✨

Inviting you behind the curtain… because I fear some of you think content creation is significantly more glamorous than ...
05/26/2026

Inviting you behind the curtain… because I fear some of you think content creation is significantly more glamorous than it actually is 🤪

In reality, sometimes your date night includes spilling drinks everywhere during a cheers attempt and losing a fight with a tart shell all in the name of capturing content😅

Unfortunately is no longer my secret, but my loss is your gain. Run, and I mean RUN DO NOT WALK, to get the amberjack crudo before it leaves their menu. Even MM, my home chef with extremely high food standards, was left speechless by that one.

And for my Philly people, consider this your exclusive little recommendation: this feels like a hidden little luxury escape without needing a full trip. Easy drive *AND* SEPTA-accessible? Plus beautiful atmosphere?! And food that leaves you saying “wow!”?!!

👀 This spot is absolutely worth knowing about before everyone else catches on.

05/21/2026

5 overnight calls in an 11-day stretch means I’ve officially reached the phase where:

• I feel lucky if I get more than 5 min for dinner
• time has no meaning
• and no 3am phone calls feels like a gift from the heavens

Enjoy these tiny little ASMR moments from another night in the NICU 🤍



obligatory disclaimer for privacy + accuracy purposes: this reel is meant to capture the general rhythm/feeling of overnight call and does not document one specific shift in real time.

One thing I’ve gotten much better at over the years is realizing life does not need a special occasion in order to be en...
05/20/2026

One thing I’ve gotten much better at over the years is realizing life does not need a special occasion in order to be enjoyed properly.

Some of the best nights happen simply because you decided an ordinary day deserved to feel a little less ordinary.

So sometimes you just make the reservation. Wear something cute. Split good food. And stay out a little too late on a random weeknight.

So yes, dinner at will always feel special to us for obvious reasons… but I also love that we keep finding reasons to go back that have nothing to do with milestones.

Turns out the people and places you love are worth celebrating more than once. A very good reminder that life feels better when you actually let yourself enjoy it while it’s happening. 🤍

PS. Don’t miss MM’s face when I tell him to keep his paws off the semifreddo cake of my dreams 😅 & my face when they surprise us with a lemon profiterole double dessert 😍

PPS. The playlist is always 💯 at Her Place so please enjoy our selection for best song last dinner on this post 😉

05/19/2026

“There is nothing you could have done to prevent this.”

I say this sentence every day in the NICU, because so many families walk in carrying enormous guilt, and I wish more mothers heard it sooner.

One of the hardest parts of working in the NICU is seeing how quickly parents, especially moms, blame themselves when pregnancy or birth doesn’t go according to plan.

And I think some of the current online messaging around pregnancy unintentionally deepens that wound by turning pregnancy outcomes into a moral issue.

Yes, women’s bodies are incredible. Yes, pregnancy and birth can be deeply empowering.

But complications are also real. Prematurity is real. Emergencies are real.

And when the conversation becomes loudly centered around “doing everything naturally” or “optimizing” pregnancy outcomes, the quiet messaging can become: “If your body was made to do this, then complications must mean your body failed.”

Pregnancy complications are not a moral failing. A NICU baby is not a reflection of how good of a mother you are.

Some babies end up in the NICU despite excellent prenatal care, healthy pregnancies, and parents who did everything they possibly could. 🤍

05/15/2026

🎉 Cue the confetti! I DID IT!!! 12 years after graduating medical school, I made my last payment. 💸

I think people see the “doctor” part and assume you instantly arrive somewhere comfortable. In reality, when you’re in the middle of training, exhaustion, delayed gratification, and six figures of debt, the finish line can feel more theoretical than real.

But today? I am officially debt free. 🤑

Consider this your reminder that some of the best milestones in life are the quiet ones nobody really sees happening in real time.

🏎️ POV: you go to one F1 Arcade watch party and suddenly start having opinions about tire strategy. 🏁Turns out:• free-pl...
05/09/2026

🏎️ POV: you go to one F1 Arcade watch party and suddenly start having opinions about tire strategy. 🏁

Turns out:
• free-play simulators
• really good food
• a room full of people yelling at TVs
• and just enough competition

…is a very effective personality shift.

10/10 night.
0/10 actual driving ability.

Swipe to see if MM or I won our big race!

PS. If you’re not into F1 yet, highly recommend the watch party experience to get you interested 🤍

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