Life Between Loads of Laundry
This is part of a two week series on Many Little Blessings where either I or my family try something that is a new experience and then reflect on it. Check out all of the new experiences. —– I’m changing up the format that I’ve been following for this series to make this one fit into a Top Ten Tuesday as well. While I have been to some larger art museums, such as the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. and The {Read More}
This past weekend, I was blessed to be able to travel to an hour south of Nashville to the Petticoat Junction Retreat Center to meet up with blogging friends to visit, brainstorm, help each other, work, and to hear a speaker we brought in. Fun, right? It was! Hopefully soon I’ll share some of my takeaways from the weekend, but first, I want to share about the beautiful house that we stayed in throughout the weekend. 1. The retreat center {Read More}
While we were in Disney World in December, we made heavy use of the Disney transportation system since we were staying at an onsite resort. We spent just over a week at the parks, so this meant we had plenty of chances to ride buses, monorails, and even boats. There were times when the seats were plentiful, but more often than not, we found ourselves riding at peak times when we were asked to get cozy and make new friends. {Read More}
A couple of years ago, we decided to try out staying at a rustic cabin in a state park just as a fun family weekend. Before the weekend was even over, the kids were already asking if we could go again the following year. And now, we’ve already made reservations for our third year! This spur of the moment decision three years ago has really turned into a wonderful family tradition for us. In the years we’ve been going, we’ve {Read More}
When we pack, we normally just kind of go overboard. I don’t worry too much about how much people pack or about conserving space, as we always just travel by car (or, minivan, as it were). Sure, I try sometimes to be mildly efficient about it, but I usually don’t stress too much about being overly efficient. All of that changed in December when we were getting ready for our eight day trip to Disney World and had compared the {Read More}
I kind of left you guys hanging, I feel. I shared after I got back from vacation that I had taken a vacation. But, then I took the holidays off the blogs and I never shared about the vacation. Top Ten Tuesday seemed like the perfect opportunity to share just ten of our big adventures from our early December vacation. 10 Adventures from Our Magical Vacation 1. We ate breakfast in a castle with princesses. 2. We whizzed through the {Read More}
~ 1 ~ This week, on a whim, the family conversation turned to trips and vacations. We never used to take vacations, and then in the last few years, we’ve made treks to Florida (Destin), a trip to Disney World (which I have been saving business money to try to repeat), and then a camping trip (which we definitely plan to repeat). It’s only been through taking vacations that we have realized the value in the life experiences of trips. {Read More}
I’m briefly coming out of my blog break (I wrote most of the things on the blog in July during the end of June) to share some information about the upcoming Free Dining offer from Walt Disney World. I know that there were many people that had a lot of questions about how we managed to get all of our food free last year on our trip and how they could get free dining as well, so I couldn’t help {Read More}
Last year, we took what could be seen as a dream vacation to many people. Can you imagine a whole month looking at a scene like this: Well, you know, except for the entire week when our scenery was more like this: I know, it was pretty sweet. So, it seems really dumb to pick the vacation when asked to write a post about something I would like a do-over on. This idea, as a whole, was hard for me. {Read More}
~ 1 ~ I am not a fan of Washington DC’s Dulles Airport. Sure, it was nice. Yeah, I did get to see a space shuttle on top of an airplane. But, that airport is huge. In fact, it was so huge that carrying around my backpack and my duffel bag has caused me back pain from when I woke up on Monday morning through the present time. I am less than thrilled about that. I keep thinking that the {Read More}
