Holidays

Valentine's Day can invoke a lot of different feelings for a lot of different people. Primarily, the argument against that I consistently hear, is something along the lines of, "I don't need a holiday to love my wife, I...

Several years ago, pre-husband and family I was mulling over Valentine’s Cards in Target. It felt like there was a brick in my stomach and I couldn’t bring myself to muster an ounce of excitement over the upcoming holiday...

Have you ever heard of an escape room? It is a mystery story come to life where you are the detective. You have 60 minutes to find and decipher clues and escape the room. This interactive experience requires you to...

Tis the season of loads of work for moms! We may not be able to have the same Christmas magic for ourselves as we did pre-kids, but it is pretty dang magical to watch them tear those presents open...

  Some winter day, far in the future, my son will sit around and talk about what the holidays were like when he was a child. I'm a sucker for nostalgia. One of my favorite quotes is from The Wonder...

When I think of the word tradition, I can't help but think of the song from "Fiddler On the Roof."  My ancestors on my maternal side came from that very same region that the Jews in the musical were...

*This post is in partnership with Wildflower Bread Co. All experiences and opinions are my own.  Effortless. The word's meaning is "requiring no exertion; achieved with ease," yet I've never tried so hard to achieve something in my life.  I am...

Here we go, another round of the magic of the holidays. I guess I should have posted this 4 months ago when Target put out the decorations so my apologies for getting to it now. As moms, we are all...

We all know fall in Flagstaff is beautiful. It can also be a time of year where time starts to speed up and it can feel like the start of survival mode before the craziness of the holidays. In my family,...

You know what's awesome? Fall.  The colors...The smells...The bulky sweaters that cover my apparently permanent "fall fluff"...Oh, and all the fall-flavored lattes we get to enjoy (see also sweaters to cover subsequent "fall fluff" from too many fall-flavored lattes. haha!).  I...

It's that time of year again...when I earn "Gold" status at Starbucks, all thanks to one little drink: The Pumpkin Spice Latte.  I knew I wanted to write about it - but didn't expect the #PSL frenzy that hit on...

This year as I filled out my daughter's back to school paperwork I came across two questions. Holidays we celebrate and holidays we don't. Being American Catholics we celebrate most typical holidays, Christmas, Easter, Halloween. But I paused at...

Tips for Smooth Travel We love to travel. When I got pregnant close friends tried to tell me that a baby wouldn't work with my adventurous lifestyle. Looking back, I'm glad I had those unsupportive people in my life because...