Girls Weekend in Wine Country: The Planning Phase
For my birthday my sister gave me a mini break this summer. We chose Virginia Wine Country for a fitting girls weekend. One of my goals...
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For my birthday my sister gave me a mini break this summer. We chose Virginia Wine Country for a fitting girls weekend. One of my goals...
Sometimes vacations don't go as planned. Sometimes you have to make last minute adjustments and it can be very disappointing. I am...
I am so excited that we’re able to take our summer trip to Williamsburg. We do two trips a year; one at Christmas and one in the summer....
Anyone who has spoken to me since I got vaccinated knows I have the travel bug bad, real bad! But my poor baby girl can’t go anywhere...
Photo by Marc Schaefer on Unsplash I know it’s been a hot minute and let me tell you why I have been MIA. I started this blog last fall...
I know I said I wasn't giving any more information on how to plan a Disney vacation for free, but things are so different now that it's...
A few years ago I read this book on how to save money on Disney World, hoping to find ways to fund yearly trips. I won’t recommend the...
I was at physical therapy a few weeks ago and I was talking about Scarlett. For whatever reason I mentioned that time Scarlett said “I...
519130. That is my new NASIC code. A NASIC code is how the government classifies your business, mine is now for “internet publishing and...
Jesus said love your neighbors, but did he say we should trust them? Biden and the CDC announced yesterday that vaccinated individuals no...
If it hasn’t been clear to you yet, my family loves to travel. The pandemic has taken many things but we’ve acutely felt the loss of our...
Once again, the River Hill Wine & Spirits has knocked it out of the park with a small batch of tequila by Maestro Dobel Diamante. It’s a...
It was not that long ago that I posted about intermittent fasting, and not long before that I posted advice on getting through the...
Who doesn't love a sundress in the summer time? I have put together my favorite affordable dresses from Target to give you a little...
Pat and I celebrated 13 years of marriage in December, I wrote a post in tribute to our 15 years together not that long ago. But over the...
It’s time to address the elephant in the room or rather the room itself. A few weeks ago in a zoom happy hour someone brought up my "shoe...
As of April 4th, France had received 15.7 million vaccines. They have administered the first dose to 17.6% of the eligible population....
It should come as a surprise to no one that I took my new hobby of wine tasting to the extreme. I warn you that this is more of a story...
Scarlett and I have been watching a sermon series on Exodus and the pastor pointed out several times when the Israelites lamented that...
The first time we went to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, it was part of a larger trip to Disney. My sister had packed her...
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