Tag Archives: Family Fun

Last week I shared with you some tips for a lower body workout. This week, let’s add some focus to our upper body. Motivate yourself by thinking ahead to summer and how rewarding it will be to s...

I love to read and I feel like I'm finally starting to really make time for it, although I'd still like to read much more than I do. One of my main goals for this next year is make reading more of a p...

After a busy day of working, chasing kids around or whatever else my day had in store, often the last thing I feel like doing is finding energy to workout. Here are some of my "best" excuses when it c...

All moms know the feeling. We get sick, we keep going. We’re tired, we keep moving. We’ve got things to do. We make a list and plow through. And through all of these, we teach our kids per...

So, Tomorrow is 2015.  2015!  Seriously, did I sleep through 2014?  Because, I’m pretty sure I’ve barely gotten used to writing 2014 on my checks and now the year is over (*...

Four years ago I made a New Year’s resolution. Normally I’m not very good at them, but this one stuck.  For the entirety of 2011 I was going to bake all of my bread from sc...

This morning, about 5 minutes after I finished my breakfast, I busted out a garbage bag and I literally threw away all of the sweets in our house. Well, I saved the kids stocking candy for them, becau...

It all started with Martha Stewart (as all good stories do).  Many years back, Martha had a darling small tree with gingerbread men hanging on it in her magazine.  The cookies were simply de...

We tucked the kids in and then I grabbed my notebook, our December calendar and a pen. I plopped down under the tree and started writing out our week, day by day with a page for each one. Up and down ...

Saturday night I came home with sore cheeks from literally smiling all evening. It was an absolute thrill to be at The Lights of Christmas in Warm Beach. All evening our booth was hopping. Your smilin...