Spring Break is almost here which means summer is just around the corner. We are planning our first major road trip with the kids, so I’ve been frantically searching the internet for all the best kid-friendly road trip tips I can find. We are headed to the middle of Texas for Spring Break, which is a 12-hour drive from our…
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It’s official. Caroline is finally sleeping in a big girl bed. We are two nights into a toddler bed and she hasn’t taken any midnight strolls over to Grandma’s house yet, so that’s good. Hopefully, she will stay put, at least until she’s 16 or so…. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I bought her this cute pillow made out of…
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Winter is finally giving way to warmer weather, so it’s time to start doing some Spring cleaning around here. My pitiful front porch has been sitting here since the day after Christmas looking all sad and dejected. I never really removed all my Christmas decor. I just took down the dead evergreen wreaths and left the rest sitting out there…
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Yesterday I told you all about our very special first visit to Universal Studio’s Harry Potter World where we got a private audience with Olivander the Wandmaker and explored every inch of Diagon Alley. The next day we went to Islands of Adventure to visit Hogsmeade village and see Hogwarts castle. Unfortunately Universal was SUPER crowded on this day, which…
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When my son Garrett turned 9, Harry Potter came into my life for the first time. Up until that point, I had never even cracked open a book or seen a single movie in the series. I was in college when the first book came out in 1997 and a newlywed by the time the series ended in 2006, so I…
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