As many of you may know, I have a deep passion for travel, and I absolutely love planning vacations. There’s nothing I enjoy more than matchmaking someone’s vacation vision with the perfect property and destination. I’ve long toyed with the idea of turning this hobby into something that allows me to share my passion with others so I’m pumped to have made this career leap! In 2022, I joined a host travel agency, and completed their training and certification program.…
Matt and I celebrated 9 years of marriage this year and my parents were kind enough to watch the girls so we could take a break from the daily grind that is parenting:) We were so exhausted this spring that all we wanted to do was lay on the beach and rest. We also didn’t want to venture too far (plus, we couldn’t leave the country without the girls because testing requirements to re-enter the US were still in place…
I’m finally getting around to writing a post about our trip to The Cloister at Sea Island! When we first booked this trip, we dreamed of a post-covid, vaccinated vacation where we could return to normalcy. We used Meg to find the hotel and book the trip, and decided to splurge a little bit since we haven’t stayed at a hotel/resort in 18 months! Little did we know that Delta would rear it’s ugly head. We debated cancelling many times,…
We had an awesome family beach week at Oak Island! We usually go to Bald Head, but after 2.5+ hours in a hot mask in the ferry line (low capacity due to COVID) last year, we decided to take a year off (you have to book big beach houses a year in advance so we weren’t sure what this summer would be like). We loved experiencing Oak Island, especially because my in-laws will be moving there this year! There are…
Happy September! We just returned from a lovely week at Folly Beach. Although the week was packed with the usual melt-downs, prepping kid meals + constant cleaning, and early morning wake-ups, we had moments of relaxation:) It was Avery’s first time really getting to play on the beach and in the water and she LOVED it. She’s not scared of much and would fearlessly crawl right into the surf. And Emerson enjoying seeing Avery experience the beach. It was also…
Edited to add: If it was unclear at any point, my family and I are taking COVID very seriously, strictly following the four major preventative measures of good hygiene (e.g., thorough and regular hand washing), maintaining physical distancing, wearing masks in public when in situations where physical distancing could be compromised, and staying in our house. We have taken every precaution possible when receiving deliveries, and we are extremely careful when handling any sort of take-out. For these reasons, and…
Matt and I had a wonderful time exploring Asheville this past weekend! I hadn’t been since Matt had an interview there in 2006 and boy has it changed. I had heard that the restaurants are really good, but was totally blown away by the food scene, especially because of the gluten free options! My parents watched Emerson for the weekend and we took Avery with us – traveling with a baby was no big deal compared to traveling with a…
Hello! We are back from a little paternity leave escape to Florida. We decided to go on a road trip since Matt is off this month – we picked Vero Beach because we wanted a cute, walkable beach town. Vero was just far enough south to get warm temperatures, but still within somewhat reasonable driving distance. We stopped in Savannah for two nights on the way down and literally booked a hotel room the night before we left. The drive…
We had a wonderful Christmas back in my hometown of Hillsborough!! It was both exhausting and relaxing. Exhausting because being away from home these days is tiring and the girls didn’t sleep all that well, but relaxing because there were grandparents and cousins to provide endless entertainment. The weather was gorgeous on the 24th, and we went to a local park for playing and exercise. My dad took my sister and me shopping for cowboy boots at a local shop…