**Mom's Special Surprise**

It was a day that her son, Carter, would never forget. His mom had planned a surprise visit with his favorite treat - ice cream. The moment he walked into the room, he saw his family members dressed up in fun and colorful outfits, complete with hats, holding out containers of ice cream. "Oh my god, please tell me this is not what I think it is," her son said, excitedly. But as he looked around at the sea of smiling faces, he realized that this was indeed a special treat from his mom.

As the group handed out ice cream and sang together, Carter's eyes widened with delight. This was "mom goals" right before his very eyes. She had been doing something like this for him every year since he was a kid, and it warmed her heart to see him so happy. "I'm going to do that for Carter when he's older," she thought to herself, feeling grateful for the special bond they shared.

**Mom's Night In**

After a long day of parenting, mom needed some time to unwind. She decided to have a "mom night in" with her partner, where they would spend quality time together while the kids slept. To make it even more special, she had prepared a delicious batch of fresh-baked cookies and set up a cozy movie night scene.

As she sat on the couch, watching TV with her feet propped up on the coffee table, she felt like the queen of the castle. Her partner was by her side, holding hands and making her feel loved and appreciated. It was a moment of pure relaxation and joy, one that she would cherish forever.

**Girls' Night Out**

On Friday nights, mom and her girlfriends would get together for a monthly hangout session, which they had dubbed "moms' night." They called it "mom prom" this time, as they were dressing up in their best attire to go out to a fancier restaurant. The group of friends had formed over the past few months through mutual friendships and shared interests, and it was amazing to see how much fun they could have together.

As they sipped cocktails and chatted about their lives, mom felt grateful for this special group of women who made her feel seen and heard. They were the ones she wanted to spend time with when Carter grew older, too - friends who understood the ups and downs of motherhood and would be there through thick and thin.

**Frog World Project**

In a recent video on her channel, mom had talked about her Frog World project, which was a fun and creative endeavor. She had gathered materials from the dollar store and set up a mini-ecosystem in her backyard, complete with lily pads, rocks, and even a tiny pond. As she watched the kids watching their little "frog world" come to life on camera, she felt a sense of pride and accomplishment.

To keep things exciting, mom had added some special surprises - like the sound of frogs croaking and the sight of tiny toes poking out from behind the rocks. It was all about creating a magical world that would spark her children's imagination and curiosity about the natural world.

**HelloFresh Giveaway**

Finally, as a thank you to her loyal followers on Instagram, mom had announced a special giveaway - a $200 cash prize, courtesy of HelloFresh, one of her favorite meal kit delivery services. She was thrilled to be able to share this amazing opportunity with her fans and hoped that it would inspire them to try out HelloFresh for themselves.

For the next month, HelloFresh had offered her exclusive promo code "GOSSA80" for a whopping $80 off their subscription service. As a mom who loved cooking at home, she was confident that HelloFresh would provide her with all the inspiration and ingredients she needed to create delicious meals for her family.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello guys welcome back to my channel I am doing a vlog style video today just as a little extra bonus video I haven't done one of these in way too long and these are my favorite videos cuz I feel like I could just be more casual get to talk to you guys okay first thing in the morning I like to set my vibe for the day so music my favorite thing is already Sean on Pandora it's kind of like fun upbeat jazz music I really like it just puts me in a good mood most mornings I go for something citrusy or peppermint if I'm feeling tired but my favorite combo is grapefruit mandarin and lemon so as I'm making breakfast I set him up with a little activity to keep him occupied the race is on we don't want a hangry toddler Carter do you have to go potty yeah you didn't go all night long though trying to go potty in five minutes or ten minutes I mean the timer for five minutes here is Carter's breakfast already very simple we're a little behind schedule so I needed something fast so we have this oatmeal bar blueberries and then a hard-boiled egg if you follow me on my Instagram stories I post his breakfast and lunch almost every day okay now that he's eating and taking care of we take care of my second child come on outside that's like today is a nice crisp fall day it's finally starting to feel like fall which I'm living for I was waiting for it to cool down so this is very exciting basic fall girl activate yeah basic fall activate all right so we're going on a walk family walk and Carter has insisted on wearing two different shoes you know there are just some battles you fight and there are some battles you just those are from Amazon do you like them okay okay so no I wanted to pop on here and do a little fitness update because I did a video a couple months ago where I had committed to the Victoria's Secret model diet and workout routine for six weeks and that was a couple months ago so I'll have you have been curious have I been keeping up with it did I fall off the ball very happy to report that I have been keeping up with it and now for the first time in my entire life I actually enjoy working out I think the key is just finding something that works for you so like try it out a lot of different classes and options and see what you really click with for me it's Pilates but the one I do is call the Legree method and it's on mega Reformers and the music is really loud and I just love it so much actually look forward to going the thing I am most excited about I am finally starting to see some results like I can see my body changing I'm getting stronger I don't know if you guys can tell but I definitely can so like my arms do we see like my shoulders it's like muscles here I've never had muscles in my noodle arms in my life you guys and the most exciting thing my number one fitness school of all time I finally have some obliques which is really cool I don't know if you can see it can you see them come on have some obliques so yeah that's a situation but I am just so proud of myself and I just wanted to pop on here and just give you guys a little motivation because I hated working out my entire life I haven't had a video on my channel called how to lose weight without working out where I just go on and on about how I hate working out and I'll never work out a massage oh my gosh my two-year-old wants a massage I want to check in the Carter and see how he's doing how are you I'm good how old are you now gee you're too and what is that you have there with you hey where did daddy take you earlier I better go carry did you get to fly in in the airplane yeah and I want a pony holiday yeah oh is it so fun what do you want to be for Halloween this year - aunt ring you want to be an airplane for Halloween yeah how would you dress up like an airplane everyone in the comments let me know what you think Carter should be for Halloween this year I need ideas all right so Carter just went down for his nap he used to not for two hours recently it's been cut like under an hour so the race is on I'm trying to make myself a delicious lunch I'm choosing between these three but I think I'm gonna go for chicken sausage and spinach ricotta ravioli like this looks so good this is a hello fresh meal you guys know I love my hello fresh so I have actually put this on pause for a few weeks and I forgot how much I missed it I've been in the biggest rut I've been making pretty much the same meals for breakfast lunch and dinner for weeks and they're very kindly at sponsoring today's video so let's go ahead and get cooking hello pressure is a meal kit delivery service and every week you get to choose from over 20 chef's curated seasonal meals and they get delivered right to your door with everything you need it is extremely convenient and it's also flexible you can change your delivery days your food preferences you can skip weeks or pause as often as you want and just make it fit into your lifestyle I have tried pretty much every meal kit delivery service that's out there hello fresh is always when I go back to because of the combination of the price for the quality and the taste of the food these recipes are so good like you will be shocked they taste like recipes you would be getting at a nice restaurant but you're making them yourself almost all of them are under 30 minutes so it's really fast I take it as my me time I put on a podcast I listen to an audiobook and I do my cooking and I enjoy myself so hellofresh is now from 566 per serving and you can get eight free meals by going to hellofresh comm and using my code vas or eighty for a total of eighty dollars off your first month this is the biggest discount code that they give out so you should definitely take advantage of this and just try it out you guys will be shocked by how much you love this so I will have all the information down in the description box I'm not even kidding right now this may be one of the best things I've ever made dainese here to house daddy is it weird I just called you daddy so Ryan had something pretty funny happen at work the other day I wanted him to tell you ozs hilarious and I was at work this guy was doing this big presentation we had like a bunch of senior management in the room and right as he kicks it off I also you start hearing this like faint kind of like noise in the background like a doot-doot doot-doot doot-doot it gets louder and louder and then all of a sudden the door is open up and the guys like oh my god please I hope this is not what I think it is and then like all these people dressed up in like ice cream like good-humour outfits like with the hats and everything and they're like holding a bunch of ice cream there was like 5 of them they start walking into the room and started handing out ice cream and he starts going guys I can't believe this is my mom ever since I've been a kid every single year she finds where I'm gonna be and she gets ice cream for me and literally this guy's mom comes in she's singing happier they're home they're handing out ice cream he's like a 40 year old man a 40 year old man and they're handing out ice cream in this presentation to senior management and like that this corporation right is the but everybody was cracking up like all the you know senior you know directors and vice presidents they're all like filming with their cameras they thought it was the funniest thing ever so basically this is mom goals and I'm gonna do that for Carter when he's older because that is just amazing beyond hilarious we are finally doing frog worlds this is from our little book I talk about this all the time and I got all my materials from the dollar store I showed in my dollar store video watch that if you haven't seen yet okay step one we have our clear bin and we filled it up with water one drop okay that's good okay that's good okay yeah there you go keep stirring now next step we add our pebbles and our rocks okay just frog roll everybody we need some Heitmann we need some excitement ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit okay these are a lily pad so you got to put them just on top of the water like this they got to float on top there you go Wow look it's a lily pad now what's the last step what do we have to add always watch these little toes you had orange in your wax yeah me it is about 9:30 p.m. both of the boys are asleep and you know what that means moms night in ultimate mom night and so let me show you what my night in entails because it's pretty amazing I have to say we're having a girls night girls night brush baked cookies you see my hand I'm still talking with my hands even though no one can see me we have fresh-baked cookies in the toaster oven and now the best part we turn this baby on and I sit here while I'm watching TV but you hold on to the couch and you push your feet into this oh my god like this is this is the best thing ever hello guys it is Friday night and I'm heading out to a moss hangout we do this every month with some of my mom friends here and tonight it's a special one we're calling it mom prom we're going to like a nicer fancy place so we're getting dressed up so I have a couple options I'm considering this is a dress I just picked up from Nordstrom so I like the color of this it's something different but I don't know so rou trying on another option and see okay and here is option number two I think I'm liking this one a lot better I just like the lighter colors I feel so lucky that I was able to meet such a great group of moms because it is not that easy to come across friends in general as an adult and mom friends in particular with kids all around the same age and I actually met three of the girls through a music class I just randomly signed up for and then from there we just kept growing through mutual friends so it has been amazing we have a group shot a mom shot that is hilarious like we send memes and just like funny things the kids are doing alright so I'm here at Rancho Valencia going to the pony room which is really nice it's actually the restaurant where I told my dad I was pregnant and then I came in the night before giving birth to Carter all right it for this vlog I really hope you guys liked it do you want to see me vlogging more let me know I'm thinking of trying to get back into it more regularly and if you are not already following me on Instagram go follow me there right now it's at gossamer beauty I have a two thousand dollar cash giveaway that closes tomorrow so if you're following me there you will be entered for that thank you guys for watching don't forget to go check out hellofresh and use my code down below for $80 off your first month with them I love my hellofresh so much and all of that said thank you it's always so much fun watching and I won't be stained with ink video byehello guys welcome back to my channel I am doing a vlog style video today just as a little extra bonus video I haven't done one of these in way too long and these are my favorite videos cuz I feel like I could just be more casual get to talk to you guys okay first thing in the morning I like to set my vibe for the day so music my favorite thing is already Sean on Pandora it's kind of like fun upbeat jazz music I really like it just puts me in a good mood most mornings I go for something citrusy or peppermint if I'm feeling tired but my favorite combo is grapefruit mandarin and lemon so as I'm making breakfast I set him up with a little activity to keep him occupied the race is on we don't want a hangry toddler Carter do you have to go potty yeah you didn't go all night long though trying to go potty in five minutes or ten minutes I mean the timer for five minutes here is Carter's breakfast already very simple we're a little behind schedule so I needed something fast so we have this oatmeal bar blueberries and then a hard-boiled egg if you follow me on my Instagram stories I post his breakfast and lunch almost every day okay now that he's eating and taking care of we take care of my second child come on outside that's like today is a nice crisp fall day it's finally starting to feel like fall which I'm living for I was waiting for it to cool down so this is very exciting basic fall girl activate yeah basic fall activate all right so we're going on a walk family walk and Carter has insisted on wearing two different shoes you know there are just some battles you fight and there are some battles you just those are from Amazon do you like them okay okay so no I wanted to pop on here and do a little fitness update because I did a video a couple months ago where I had committed to the Victoria's Secret model diet and workout routine for six weeks and that was a couple months ago so I'll have you have been curious have I been keeping up with it did I fall off the ball very happy to report that I have been keeping up with it and now for the first time in my entire life I actually enjoy working out I think the key is just finding something that works for you so like try it out a lot of different classes and options and see what you really click with for me it's Pilates but the one I do is call the Legree method and it's on mega Reformers and the music is really loud and I just love it so much actually look forward to going the thing I am most excited about I am finally starting to see some results like I can see my body changing I'm getting stronger I don't know if you guys can tell but I definitely can so like my arms do we see like my shoulders it's like muscles here I've never had muscles in my noodle arms in my life you guys and the most exciting thing my number one fitness school of all time I finally have some obliques which is really cool I don't know if you can see it can you see them come on have some obliques so yeah that's a situation but I am just so proud of myself and I just wanted to pop on here and just give you guys a little motivation because I hated working out my entire life I haven't had a video on my channel called how to lose weight without working out where I just go on and on about how I hate working out and I'll never work out a massage oh my gosh my two-year-old wants a massage I want to check in the Carter and see how he's doing how are you I'm good how old are you now gee you're too and what is that you have there with you hey where did daddy take you earlier I better go carry did you get to fly in in the airplane yeah and I want a pony holiday yeah oh is it so fun what do you want to be for Halloween this year - aunt ring you want to be an airplane for Halloween yeah how would you dress up like an airplane everyone in the comments let me know what you think Carter should be for Halloween this year I need ideas all right so Carter just went down for his nap he used to not for two hours recently it's been cut like under an hour so the race is on I'm trying to make myself a delicious lunch I'm choosing between these three but I think I'm gonna go for chicken sausage and spinach ricotta ravioli like this looks so good this is a hello fresh meal you guys know I love my hello fresh so I have actually put this on pause for a few weeks and I forgot how much I missed it I've been in the biggest rut I've been making pretty much the same meals for breakfast lunch and dinner for weeks and they're very kindly at sponsoring today's video so let's go ahead and get cooking hello pressure is a meal kit delivery service and every week you get to choose from over 20 chef's curated seasonal meals and they get delivered right to your door with everything you need it is extremely convenient and it's also flexible you can change your delivery days your food preferences you can skip weeks or pause as often as you want and just make it fit into your lifestyle I have tried pretty much every meal kit delivery service that's out there hello fresh is always when I go back to because of the combination of the price for the quality and the taste of the food these recipes are so good like you will be shocked they taste like recipes you would be getting at a nice restaurant but you're making them yourself almost all of them are under 30 minutes so it's really fast I take it as my me time I put on a podcast I listen to an audiobook and I do my cooking and I enjoy myself so hellofresh is now from 566 per serving and you can get eight free meals by going to hellofresh comm and using my code vas or eighty for a total of eighty dollars off your first month this is the biggest discount code that they give out so you should definitely take advantage of this and just try it out you guys will be shocked by how much you love this so I will have all the information down in the description box I'm not even kidding right now this may be one of the best things I've ever made dainese here to house daddy is it weird I just called you daddy so Ryan had something pretty funny happen at work the other day I wanted him to tell you ozs hilarious and I was at work this guy was doing this big presentation we had like a bunch of senior management in the room and right as he kicks it off I also you start hearing this like faint kind of like noise in the background like a doot-doot doot-doot doot-doot it gets louder and louder and then all of a sudden the door is open up and the guys like oh my god please I hope this is not what I think it is and then like all these people dressed up in like ice cream like good-humour outfits like with the hats and everything and they're like holding a bunch of ice cream there was like 5 of them they start walking into the room and started handing out ice cream and he starts going guys I can't believe this is my mom ever since I've been a kid every single year she finds where I'm gonna be and she gets ice cream for me and literally this guy's mom comes in she's singing happier they're home they're handing out ice cream he's like a 40 year old man a 40 year old man and they're handing out ice cream in this presentation to senior management and like that this corporation right is the but everybody was cracking up like all the you know senior you know directors and vice presidents they're all like filming with their cameras they thought it was the funniest thing ever so basically this is mom goals and I'm gonna do that for Carter when he's older because that is just amazing beyond hilarious we are finally doing frog worlds this is from our little book I talk about this all the time and I got all my materials from the dollar store I showed in my dollar store video watch that if you haven't seen yet okay step one we have our clear bin and we filled it up with water one drop okay that's good okay that's good okay yeah there you go keep stirring now next step we add our pebbles and our rocks okay just frog roll everybody we need some Heitmann we need some excitement ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit ribbit okay these are a lily pad so you got to put them just on top of the water like this they got to float on top there you go Wow look it's a lily pad now what's the last step what do we have to add always watch these little toes you had orange in your wax yeah me it is about 9:30 p.m. both of the boys are asleep and you know what that means moms night in ultimate mom night and so let me show you what my night in entails because it's pretty amazing I have to say we're having a girls night girls night brush baked cookies you see my hand I'm still talking with my hands even though no one can see me we have fresh-baked cookies in the toaster oven and now the best part we turn this baby on and I sit here while I'm watching TV but you hold on to the couch and you push your feet into this oh my god like this is this is the best thing ever hello guys it is Friday night and I'm heading out to a moss hangout we do this every month with some of my mom friends here and tonight it's a special one we're calling it mom prom we're going to like a nicer fancy place so we're getting dressed up so I have a couple options I'm considering this is a dress I just picked up from Nordstrom so I like the color of this it's something different but I don't know so rou trying on another option and see okay and here is option number two I think I'm liking this one a lot better I just like the lighter colors I feel so lucky that I was able to meet such a great group of moms because it is not that easy to come across friends in general as an adult and mom friends in particular with kids all around the same age and I actually met three of the girls through a music class I just randomly signed up for and then from there we just kept growing through mutual friends so it has been amazing we have a group shot a mom shot that is hilarious like we send memes and just like funny things the kids are doing alright so I'm here at Rancho Valencia going to the pony room which is really nice it's actually the restaurant where I told my dad I was pregnant and then I came in the night before giving birth to Carter all right it for this vlog I really hope you guys liked it do you want to see me vlogging more let me know I'm thinking of trying to get back into it more regularly and if you are not already following me on Instagram go follow me there right now it's at gossamer beauty I have a two thousand dollar cash giveaway that closes tomorrow so if you're following me there you will be entered for that thank you guys for watching don't forget to go check out hellofresh and use my code down below for $80 off your first month with them I love my hellofresh so much and all of that said thank you it's always so much fun watching and I won't be stained with ink video bye\n"