I'm bringing back Friday Favorites for one of our favorite shopping weeks of the year! While the discounts retailers are offering alongside Prime Day are great, it does serve as a great reason to stock up on some items that you need or invest in a few splurges. Before the sales end, I want to … Continue reading Prime Day 2025
We kicked off our summer with a sweet family trip to Savannah, Georgia! It was my first time in this charming little city and it ended up being the best location for a short trip in a busy year. When planning where to go, Jody and I wanted somewhere that was fairly walkable, a short … Continue reading Our Family Vacation to Savannah, Georgia
The irony of this post title is the sentiment is true: if you are taking your toddler on vacation, it is indeed not a vacation. We took our first family vacation as a family of three to Massachusetts last fall. At the time, Emerson was a little over one year old and, lucky for us, … Continue reading Vacationing with a One-Year-Old: Lessons Learned
I set up my Christmas tree in record time this year. Usually after cutting the tree down from a local farm, it takes one to two days to get the lights on the tree (my least favorite Christmas activity) and then another to get all of the decorations on it. This year, however, I am … Continue reading 2023 Ornament Swap
This week, we are headed on our first family vacation as a party of three! We are spending a few days on Cape Cod before trading in the beach for the city and will wrap our trip up in Boston. I've only been to Boston for a few hours and have never been to the … Continue reading Cape Cod + Boston Packing List
One of the first things we decided upon our friends' moving back to the East Coast was planning a fall trip with them to Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. We are all big-time mountain views kind of people and thought the promise of crisp fall weather and apple orchard visits were too delightful to resist. We … Continue reading Fall Mountain Weekend
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