Elaina M. Avalos

Main menu

Skip to content

About Elaina
- 1,000 Gifts
- Random Things
Blog
Contact
- Be Social
From My Readers . . .
Home

Contact

Name(required)

Email(required)

Website

Comment or Question(required)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Be Social

Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
Pinterest

Follow Elaina M. Avalos on WordPress.com

Follow Blog via Email

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 753 other followers

R+F

Find me on the Rodan & Fields website for life-changing skincare.

Instagram

Came home from work last night to a box of awesome from R+F! I’m excited to use these & happy to have more REDEFINE Multi-Function Eye Cream on hand. 😍 . I have a little R+F giveaway running on my Facebook page. It’s an entire UNBLEMISH regimen! Link in profile. As I gear up to launch my business I wanted to share with you (for free) a few of our life-changing skincare products. . . . . #rodanandfieldsproducts #rodanandfields #randf #lifechangingskincare #chasingdreams #acne #acnetreatment #acneproblems #takealeap

On the blog today, I talk a bit about chasing dreams - even when it no longer makes sense. And no, I haven’t read Girl Wash Your Face. I prob won’t. . But some of us have been out here chasing dreams for a long time & one of those someones is me. Lol. So I’m here to encourage you to keep at. I’m gonna keep on, keepin’ on, too. New blog post link in profile. . . . . . . #chasingdream #dreamchaser #goals #randf

Yesss! // #Repost @biancaolthoff ・・・ Do it because they said you couldn’t...then be humble and thank everyone who helped you do it.

I’m so excited to announce that I have started a small business - as a Rodan & Fields Independent Consultant. If you don’t know much about R+F, the company was founded by Drs Rodan and Fields - the same doctors that created Procactiv. My life was changed by Proactiv, as a teen. I struggled with acne issues that had gotten very challenging to manage with typical over the counter options. I used it for years and saw then, that their original product, did what it said it did. Fast forward to last year. Getting new treatment for Rheumatoid Disease started changing my skin. The immune suppressing treatment literally changed my skin. It dried it out, dark circles got really dark, and overall my skin just didn’t look great. It even felt different. I had been gifted or won a variety of R+F products & decided to try them. The difference I noticed was huge. My eyes were a particular struggle and Redefine Multi-Function Eye Cream and Active Hydration Bright Eye Complex were game changers. But I wasn’t exactly surprised that Drs Rodan & Field’s products do what they say they do. Fast forward again, to spring of this year when a special little boy moved in & I became a {foster} mom. I started looking for new opportunities for us. I wanted more time to spend with him, I want more flexibility in my schedule, and I want more options so I can write {as full time as possible}. I was looking for an opportunity that would help me create some extra space and time for me & my small family. I’d been watching R+F for a long while & even did a little research. But it was scary to think about taking the leap and adding something else to do in my already busy schedule. Every leap I’ve taken has eventually paid off. Including a leap to drive across the country in 2000 to start a new life in DC, {that one year later led me to Eastern Carolina and the Marine Corps}. So why? What is my why? It’s to give me & my son, options. It’s to find out what’s on the other side of what if... This was the best option for me after looking at other options - to share a product I believe in, by a company I trust.

Foster care peeps - Feel like sharing any advice or words of encouragement about going to court? As well as seeing/being seen by birth parents for the first time? I’m super nervous about this. This is not the TPR hearing - that’s about 90 days out. But it is a plan change (plan is changing to adoption for my FS7) hearing. And for the first time, his mama will be in court. . DSS is ceasing reunification efforts - or that’s what they’re petitioning the court for. And then the plan change. At last word, it sounds as though she is ready for what’s ahead. . She will always be his mom. He will always and forever be tied to her in a way he will never be tied to me. While not exactly a parallel, there’s a scene in the movie Stepmom, where Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts talk about what the other is missing or has missed. It feels a little like that. She has his past - I’ll have his future. The depth of the grief and sadness has been so...unexpected in spite of the training and warnings it would be so. If all goes as planned, this little boy makes me a mom - my greatest desire for my life. And yet it’s mixed with such brokenness as a family is literally taken apart - siblings in different homes and mom losing all rights. Gosh. This is phew. I don’t even have words. . So there we will be on Tuesday - the woman who gave this sweet boy life and me, the woman who wants to raise him. Seriously...I’ll take any advice you throw my way. . . . . . . #fostercare #thisisfostercare #fostertoadopt #fostermom #fostermama #fosterlove #boymom #fostercarejourney #adoptionjourney

***New blog post!!!*** Closing the door - on the home where I became a mom. And a few other thoughts on what will hopefully happen in our new home. Link in profile. . . . . . . #fostercare #fostermom #fosteradopt #adoption #boymom #homesweethome

My Blog Posts

Blog at WordPress.com.

Send to Email Address Your Name Your Email Address

Share this:

Like this: