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Australia with Kids: What an Adventure
Where do I even begin when it comes to recapping a magical trip to Australia with kids for Winter Break?
I guess I could pick a single word to encapsulate the experience. And I guess I already did in the sentence above!
Magical.
It was simply magical.
It’s a magical continent, and it’s magical to travel to a different hemisphere (especially to escape winter by heading into summer!) and it’s magical to spend an extended amount of time with my family.
We weren’t very strategic about how we picked where to go on the world’s largest island. I came across an incredible home in the … Read More
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How to Celebrate My 40th?
40!?!
It’s on the horizon!
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I got to be with my cousin while she celebrated her 30th birthday. It got me thinking about how I used to celebrate birthdays with a lot more creativity and zest. For my 30th birthday, for example, I invited my good friends to trek to a camp in the mountains of Colorado. We went snow-shoeing, cooked meals together, watched a movie, played board games and just had a lot of cozy fun together.
It made me sad to think that I was about to let my 40th birthday pass without much ado. It’s not that I need the attention or need … Read More
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Family Goals: Update
Yikes!The new year is almost upon us. It has caused me to go back to our Family Goals to see if we are on track. We have volunteered more than twice, read more than three chapter books, gone on more than three vacations, saved money for new deck railings (but not a hot tub), hosted 10 events at our home, and hung out at a creek in the summer.I realized we only went to one instead of two performances, so I quickly found a random aerial performance in East Austin. It looks quirky and has definitely piqued my interest!We also never went camping. So camping it is!… Read More
