Valerie Coastal

Coastal living, with a little beautiful chaos.

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  • Life with Disability,  Lifestyle

    September Favorites, Spooky Season & Where I’ve Been

    October 8, 2026 /

    So… I missed last week’s post. I wish I could tell you it was because I was doing something exciting. Maybe taking a spontaneous fall weekend away. Perhaps reading by a fireplace in an oversized sweater while someone brought me coffee. No. It was migraines and exhaustion. Very glamorous. September was one of those months that somehow went by incredibly fast while also lasting approximately six years. Between getting back into the school routine, sports, work, commuting, everyone’s schedules and just general life, I feel like we spent most of the month trying to remember where everyone needed to be and at what time. And the constant weather and pressure…

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    When Your September Reset Needs a Reset

    September 23, 2026
  • Family,  Life with Disability,  Lifestyle,  School,  Sports

    When Your September Reset Needs a Reset

    September 23, 2026 /

    September was supposed to be my reset. Instead, chronic migraine, back-to-school schedules, work and sheer exhaustion had other plans. Sometimes keeping your head above water is enough.

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    October 9, 2017

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  • Cozy September reset for a busy working mom with fall coffee, Kindle and autumn home decor
    Family,  Fashion,  Lifestyle,  School,  Sports

    The September Reset: Getting Back Into a Routine Without Pretending We Have It All Together

    September 16, 2026 /

    A realistic September reset for busy moms: getting the family back into school and sports routines, slowly decluttering the house, transitioning to cozy fall décor, reading instead of doom-scrolling, making time for self-care and learning to enjoy the chaos of this season of motherhood. ☕ Coffee encouraged. Perfection not required.

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  • Family,  Lifestyle,  School,  Sports

    Back to School and Back to Chaos: How I’m Attempting to Keep Track of Everyone’s Everything

    September 9, 2026 /

    Two kids, two working parents, school, soccer, swimming, jiu-jitsu, Scouts, music—and approximately 9,000 notifications. Here’s how I’m attempting to keep track of everyone’s everything this school year without making my brain the family calendar.

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  • Family,  Lifestyle,  Sports

    School’s Back… Which Means Fall Sports Are Back Too!

    September 2, 2026 /

    Well, somehow summer is basically over. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, because I feel like school JUST ended, but here we are. Backpacks are packed, school supplies have been purchased (and will inevitably disappear within the first month), alarms are being set way too early again, and we are officially heading back into our regularly scheduled chaos. And in our house, back to school also means one very important thing: FALL SPORTS ARE BACK. If you have kids in sports, you know that “fall sports” does not simply mean dropping your child off at practice a couple of times a week. LOL. If only. It means practices. Games.…

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  • Lifestyle

    My Work from Home Desk Setup

    November 13, 2022 /

    We’ve all seen the absolutely magnificent and beautiful home offices on Pinterest and Instagram. They are IMMACULATE. DIVINE. ABSOLUTE PERFECTION. AND I LOVE THEM! BUT, I would also be terrified to work in those spaces for fear of ruining them 😂; I much prefer a more realistic home office. (And again, nothing against the perfect home offices; if I didn’t have kids and a dog, or ADHD, or if I knew I could keep it perfect, I would 100% have it LOL.) On the very rare occasion I get to work remotely (my company hates remote work, but that’s another post for another day 🙄) I have a pretty nice…

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  • Family,  Lifestyle

    Heading Back to Disney!

    August 17, 2022 /

    We are FINALLY heading back to Disney this month! We’ve had to cancel the last 2 years due to Covid, so we are so flipping excited to finally be able to go! It will definitely be a whole new experience now with Genie, Genie+, and Lightning Lane, so stay tuned for my future post on all of that, but in the meantime, I am planning on what will go in our park bag. Last time our boys were still in the toddler stage, so we had pull ups, wipes, extra clothes, and all the fun stuff that comes with having little boys. But other than the baby/toddler essentials and a…

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  • Family,  Lifestyle,  Recipes

    Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Pizza Dough FTW

    August 8, 2022 /

    When we moved to the ‘burbs, I was so excited that there was a Trader Joe’s near us. We had one near our first apartment, but the parking lot was atrocious so we didn’t go nearly as often we’d like, even though we LOVED it. When we moved into our second apartment, there was no TJ near us, so naturally we missed it. Having moved into our forever home and being near one, I figured I would be there every week! If you would believe it, 5 years passed and I still hadn’t stepped foot into the TJ 🤦🏻‍♀️ FINALLY, a couple of weeks ago we went and ended up…

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  • Family,  Lifestyle

    Oh sh–

    April 6, 2021 /

    My oldest was about 1 year old, standing in his play pen, when we he dropped a toy and uttered his first string of words, "Oh shiiiiiiiiit."

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  • Family,  Lifestyle

    Well, it’s been a YEAR

    April 2, 2021 /

    I was going to make a post about how this last year has sucked because of COVID, but let's be honest. It sucked for everyone, more so for others.

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September favorites, aka the little things that made an otherwise chaotic month slightly more tolerable. 😂 ⚽🍂 COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND IS COMING… and if you're a soccer parent, you already know what that means. September was somehow the longest and shortest month of my life. 🍂 I had plans for my September Reset.

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