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Mom of the most incredible children❤️

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This birthday trend, but the family version. My parents’ serious concentration, Ty on candle duty, and my dad’s little clap at the end 🥹

Ty surprised me with Usher tickets in LA, and you KNOW I love me some slow grinding 😎 But all I wanted this year was my happy place, home, with my family 🤎 so that’s exactly where we spent it. (Usher, see you in November)

43 or 34, depending on which way the balloons are spinning. I’ll take either. 🧁

Fun fact, that’s my crown from winning Miss Polonia World when I was a wee 19 year old. My parents carefully flew with it from MA this week, cuuuuteeee 😭

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Six years.

Six years since my brother, Stefan, was diagnosed with glioblastoma.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you know our family has lived with this diagnosis every single day. If you’re new here, welcome. This is one of the biggest reasons I care so deeply about Glioblastoma Awareness Day.

The most visible parts are the surgeries, the MRIs, the treatments, the struggles, the uncertainty, and the appointments that never seem to end.

But what I’ve learned over these six years is that glioblastoma doesn’t get to be everything.

It doesn’t get to steal every laugh around the dinner table. It doesn’t get to take away family game nights, birthdays, holidays, or the quiet moments that end up meaning the most.

Watching my brother has taught me more about resilience than I could ever put into words. And watching my parents and his beautiful family love him through every season has shown me what unconditional love truly looks like.

My heart is also with every family who has lost someone they love to this disease. Their lives, their stories, and the love they gave deserve to be remembered today and every day.

Today, I’m hugging my family a little tighter. If you know someone living with glioblastoma, send them a little extra love today. If you’ve lost someone, I’m sending you love too. And to every caregiver, doctor, nurse, researcher, and advocate who keeps showing up for families like mine, thank you. Thank you for giving us hope, and for continuing to fight for better treatments and, one day, a cure. 🩶🙏🏼

#glioblastomaawarenessday #gbm #braintumorawareness

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Happiest Birthday to the Goat, my Mama 🤍

There’s not a single day that goes by that I don’t think how lucky I am to have grown up in a home so full of love and endless pierogi. We may not have had all the money in the world, but somehow you and Papa made us feel like we had everything. Proof that the best things in life really can’t be bought, and I wouldn’t change a single thing about the way we were raised.

You taught me to work hard, love hard, and show up as an honest, good human. Being able to come home to the same home we grew up in, is my fave thing in the world.

Can’t believe you, Papa, Stefan and Caitlin are coming out for CMA Fest next week! I hope I make you proud 🥹 love you endlessly!

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Every year, I write a letter to Santa.
Part wish list, part journal entry.
Things I hope for, things I’d do differently, things that changed…things I’m grateful for, and a few I’d like to tuck away and never think about again.

I’ve kept his responses since I was little, and I’m almost certain he’s done the same. A sweet little collection of notes back and forth over the years.

I think I’ll keep writing, it makes me happy. 🎅🏼🧑🏼‍🎄

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The pictures of my Polish Babcia’s, with their scarves in their hair always made me so happy. 🥹🇵🇱 When I started exploring silk for Cowboy Tears, I fell in love and knew it had to be the newest addition to our lineup. So basically…I’m just out here trying to start a babcia-in-silk-scarves movement.

Silk was new territory for me, so I spent months learning and searching until I found a wonderful family-run business here in the States. These scarves are 34x34, big enough to wear as a top, tie in your hair, or even wear as underwear if that sounds nice. 🥀

Launching September 8. I hope they make your heart smile as much as they do mine.

Fun fact: the bellbottoms @shelbybay is wearing were my mama @irenah50’s from the 70s 🥹 sadly my bum isn’t quite the same size, so Shelby got to rock these beauties instead.

And a huge thank you to @shanerad, our newest photographer-turned-friend, who showed up to set at the exact same time as me (and my 76 boxes of styling chaos). You jumped right in, and I’m so grateful for you hustling by my side. 😎

Illustrations by @ari_doyle ♥️

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Finally got it!!! So sweet. Love it. Thanku so much Tyler Rich for writing it. Makes me miss my Fur Babies. But gives me comfort too. It definitely helps when others feel the same way u do about their babies…makes u feel like ur not alone. I can’t read it to my grandbabies without crying … but I hope it helps them understand a lil better.

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Five years ago, Stefan had a lemon-sized tumor, later Dx as Glioblastoma, removed from his brain. We were thrown into a world we didn’t expect—one filled with surgery, potential for more seizures, the need for therapy (for all of us), and countless unknowns.

Every year since has brought its own set of challenges. There is no roadmap for life after brain cancer. Survivors like Stefan need more: more research, more long-term post-treatment care plans, and more support to truly thrive.

We’re deeply thankful for the care Stefan received at @hartfordhealthcare and for the people who’ve walked this road with us. Today, we celebrate five years—not because it’s been easy, but because he’s still here.

🏠 5 years – Home, heart, healing. 💛
🌊 4 Years – OBX breeze & beach hugs 🏖️
⛰️ 3 Years – Vermont views & cozy smiles 🍂
🚇 2 Years – Big Apple, bigger love 🗽
🦞 1 Year – Maine memories by the coast 🌊
🩶 Survivor – Gray for brain cancer. Always fighting.
⚕️Surgery Day – Braver than brave 💪
🥰 Day Before Surgery – Snuggles before the storm
🚑 Seizure Day – A day that changed everything
🌳 Day Before Seizure – Smiles we never saw coming

🧠💛 #Glioblastoma #gbm #BrainCancerAwareness #5yearsurvivor #HartfordHospital #grateful #braintumor #cancersurvivor

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Today, I salute you, my incredible Papa @richgadecki and the country you proudly served. You came to this country from Poland with hope, and went on to serve 20 years in the U.S. Military, protecting the very freedoms you believed in so deeply.

From Vietnam to Desert Storm to Operation Enduring Freedom, and three years stationed at Fort Bragg, you showed our family what strength, loyalty, and sacrifice truly look like.

As we celebrate our independence today, I’m reminded just how much it’s cost, and how lucky we are to live with pride, opportunity, and peace.

I love this country wholeheartedly, and I always will.

Freedom isn’t free.
Wishing you all a meaningful Fourth of July. 🇺🇸

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70 and stunning! We gathered over the weekend to celebrate this radiant woman’s milestone birthday — and Sabina threw the most perfect party to match. Here’s to love, family, and fabulous years ahead! 🥂 #cheersto70years

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Happiest 70th Birthday to my beautiful, kind, intelligent, selfless Mama. It feels like just yesterday we were celebrating your 50th. I remember taking the train home from New York, I was in college there at the time. I remember every single moment of that day. And somehow, twenty years have gone by since then.

You’ve held my hand during my saddest days. Seeing you sad is ten times worse than my own pain, I suppose that’s how a parent feels seeing their little ones hurt. You and Dad pinched pennies behind closed doors (well, Dad probably would’ve spent it on Keno, so I’m glad you helped him pinch pennies on our behalf). 😉 We had no idea how tough things were, just so you could give us the world. And now that we’re grown and married, you and Dad are still hiring budget-friendly contractors who install stairs that are, without a doubt, not up to code, just so you can be generous with us when we need a hand.

If I had one critique, it would be the time you asked me to sign an Entourage DVD so you could give it to the sweet guy at the Genius Bar at Apple who had helped you. One example of how much you put others first, even at your own expense.

Your selflessness is the most beautiful gift. I never once felt like we weren’t the richest family in the world, because our home was always overflowing with love. And now, when you visit, you fill our homes with that same love that makes them feel just as special. Without the memories, a home is just a home.

I’m sobbing as I write this, because I truly can’t wait to have little ones who get to be loved by you and Dad. That kind of love is a rare and precious gift.

I hope this weekend you feel all the love you’ve poured into everyone’s lives come back to you tenfold. I love you, my Mama. 💛🌼🧁

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Just a small-town girl from Massachusetts, raised by two incredibly hard-working parents from Poland who always told me to dream big and work even harder. This weekend, I saw Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union, and Jelly Roll wearing something I made, and my heart still doesn’t quite believe it. 😭🙏🏼✨ If it weren’t for a little delusion, a lot of grit, and the badass friends who’ve cheered me on, I’m not sure I’d be here. Forever grateful.

📷 @kloseupphotography
🩵 @citybootsofficial

#Stagecoach #CowboyTears

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This week marks one year of Cowboy Tears. A full year of mistakes, wins, taking chances, believing in myself while simultaneously doubting my every move…having friends in my corner, learning from those who took advantage of my kindness, riding out endless growing pains, and shedding a whole lotta happy tears. 🥲

To all my beautiful friends who’ve been hustling by my side-dropping everything to model in my shoots, waking up at the crack of dawn to film and create, I’m so, so thankful. It’s a real scrappy team over here, and every little win we’ve had wouldn’t have been possible without this small but mighty crew. 😭

Thank you to my friends and family who came over to fold bandanas, tag hats, build boxes, and pack orders until 5 in the morning. It’s not lost on me that most of Thanksgiving and Christmas was spent with my family helping me get those holiday orders out, and I’ll never forget it.

And to everyone who’s supported this dream, by purchasing, posting, and proudly rocking Cowboy Tears, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. 🙏🏼 I’m emo tonight, and I’ve had wine, if you were in front of me I’d force hug and kiss every one of you on the forehead right now. Cheers to another year of building…hopefully with fewer fulfillment mistakes, and a whole lotta love. To the moon baby!!! 🦬🌙

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📷 @kloseupphotography

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