May 13, 2022

Moving Checklist For The Perfect Move, 2 Months Out

Now, ya’ll, I say this with love because this IS a moving checklist for the perfect move. However, it is so important that you accept up front that the perfect move will never ever happen. So no, moves aren’t perfect. However, you never know what it is that will go wrong, so you always plan for perfection. The plan and the checklist are for the (laughably) perfect move. Just for your sanity, remember that it won’t actually be perfect. We are just going to hope that whatever goes wrong will at least be funny. Our family is currently 60-80 days […]
May 10, 2022

Township Game Review: Addictive, Easy, and Family Friendly

Honest Township Game Review Upfront: This game is probably my favorite app on my phone. Township is fun, easy, and family friendly. You can play it while watching t.v., talking on the phone, and hanging out with family. Your whole family can download it and create a co-op together. I love this app. But Township can be addictive. For me. My children all played for a year and quit without a second thought, but I find it very addictive. In truth, I have several apps that were too addictive for me, so maybe this is a personal problem. But this […]
April 30, 2022

God is with You in the Storm.

The other day, I saw a tweet from Tony Evans: God is with you in the storm. You are not alone. — Tony Evans (@drtonyevans) April 26, 2022 “God is with you in the storm. You are not alone.” We are in the middle of planning and preparing for our move. Life has felt like a sad little storm lately. It isn’t a hurricane. It feels more like when it rains for days and days on end. You know those times? And everyday is gray, and you keep hoping to see the sun again? All of these problems keep popping […]
April 24, 2022

The 16 Steps of the Moving Process

This is another delightful year of moving for us. We’ve only moved a billion times, but it still feels like a daunting process. Any large task HAS to be divided up into smaller, more manageable steps for me. It helps everything, even moving, feel more doable. It’s that whole eating an elephant one bite at a time thing. What a gross example though… First, there are the sixteen steps of moving out. Then there are the sixteen steps of unpacking and settling in. Today I’m only going to worry about the moving out part, as it comes first. Tackle one […]
April 23, 2022

7 Fun Ways for Kids to Entertain Themselves

Very often kids need to find something to do, and John David is here to give you some ideas for how kids can entertain themselves. Everything below was written straight from my eight-year-old to yours. Only one of them (shopping) requires help. The rest are all things can do for themselves. 7 Fun Ways for Kids to Entertain Yourself #1. Go shopping The first way is to go shopping because if you do, you can find a lot of things you want or need. The same goes for your kids because you can get super fun things, like a mini […]
April 18, 2022

Top 6 Must See Places to Visit in Monterey, California

“What are the best places to visit in Monterey on our vacation?” This is one of the questions I get asked the most. I lived in Monterey for a couple of years not long ago. Most people I know live in the eastern U.S., so when they take a trip to middle/northern California, they ask me what to see. For all things Monterey vacay, I’m your girl. There is no better place to vacation than Monterey, California, in my opinion. They have everything in California: mountains, beaches, incredible sea life unique to the Pacific coast, shopping, beautiful weather all year […]
April 11, 2022

Learning Something New: How to Play Football Lessons from John David

Today I have a guest post from my son. He’s eight, but he is a football expert. John David can rattle off to you every single team in the NFL and who their quarterback is. He’s excited for the upcoming NFL draft to see who will go where. JD also loves to play football, not just watch it. So he’s also anxiously tracking the start date for kid football season sign-ups. We are in the middle of a move, so he had me look up when exactly football sign-ups are in the new town so he does not miss them. […]
April 9, 2022

13 Important Texting Tips Your Teens & Preteens Need To Know

Giving our teens and preteens helpful tips for the world of texting and communicating via phone is so important. We give them this new phone, they are still learning social skills in general anyway, and this opens up a whole new confusing medium for talking to people. Plus, they are usually texting with immature people, and all kinds of problems will come up. Our parents (I’m in my forties) did not have to teach us this. Texting was not a thing back then. We are the first generation of parents to have middle and high schoolers with smart phones, and […]
April 5, 2022

Best Day Trip Ever: The Friends Experience in D.C.

The Friends Experience is in Washington, D.C. in 2022 from March through June. It’s in several other cities this year too, and I’ll tell you more about that below. Last year when I went to New York City with my cousins, we were hoping to do the Friends Experience, but we were short on time. Then I found out that this thing travels around the country. You don’t always have to be in New York to enjoy the Friends Experience. I’m going to tell you exactly what to expect, to help you decide if it’s worth a day trip for […]

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