Jessie Peele
Jessie is a happy-hour-loving, cupcake-eating, running-obsessed, reality-tv-addicted single mama, currently living in Carrollton, GA. She was born and raised in Columbia, SC, attended Clemson University (Go Tigers!), and taught elementary school for about ten years in Winston Salem, NC. Life brought her to Carrollton in January of 2014, and after four years in Georgia she's still getting used to living in a small town. Jessie was a stay-at-home mama for 3.5 years, but when life took an unexpected turn, she became a divorced mama who found her way back to the classroom. With three kids in tow (Cameron Kate, 7, Everette, 4, and Brooks, 2), she is now a full-time elementary school teacher and a part-time skincare business owner via Rodan + Fields. In the nooks and crannies of her day, she loves running (bonus if it's WITHOUT the stroller!), binge-watching on Netflix, baking and eating anything sweet, drinking a good craft beer/vodka cocktail/cold margarita, and blogging about all things mama-hood on her blog Cupcakes & Running Shoes: http://cupcakesandrunningshoes.blogspot.com/.
The Top Eleven Books [That Kept Me Moving Toward the Sunshine]
I am a reader.
A nerdy, book-loving, writing-obsessed, former-thesaurus-carrying, wannabe-author.
Except then I became a mom to three precious, demanding, time-consuming little humans and people would say hey, you should read this book and I would...
I have Fruit Snacks in my Pocket
Since the time my oldest child had about eight teeth, I am not sure a single day has passed where my kids did not eat fruit snacks.
What is it about a pack of fruit...
Atlanta Summer Bucket List 2023 | 50+ Things to Do With Kids – Free...
Atlanta Summer Bucket List 2023
It’s summertime in Atlanta – and while it can get HOT, families here are blessed with a wide variety of activities to make their summer the COOLest ever. From splash...
Getting Back on the Bike
It's been awhile.
Life has a way of coming at you fast, ya know? Just when you seem to get your head above the water of whatever wave you're riding, the tide seems to pull...
My New Year’s Resolution
There's something to be said about a body that grows and births three babies.
I mean, think about it, really...
What starts as the size of a poppy seed eventually exits the body as a breathing,...
Mesh Underwear & Other Postpartum Survival Necessities
When I was pregnant with my first baby, everyone talked about labor and delivery. It was all warnings and just-you-waits and will-you-get-an-epidural and contractions and this-is-how-you-push. No one...and I mean no one prepared me...
Head First
The other afternoon my husband and the kids were on the back porch playing while I got dinner ready in the kitchen. I heard the kids giggling uncontrollably, and I smiled and chopped some...
Will She Dance?
I started dancing at the age of four. It was a ballet class, and I still have the little pair of ceramic ballet slippers on a pink ribbon that we got when we performed...