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Each year in January we try to make time to visit Dooley Groves to pick Honeybell oranges. January is usually cool and sunny in Florida and being outside in the middle or orange groves is a great way to spend a Saturday. Dooley Groves is …
With my mom in Ohio, my sister (and the other half of The Summers Collective) in Kentucky and my family in Florida we collectively (pun intended) spend a lot of time traveling up and down Interstate 75 to visit each other. At Thanksgiving it usually …
If you are like us, you are both looking forward to and dreading the holiday season. We all love the traditions and holiday programs, the music and the shopping, the decorating and planning and the cooking! But with the cooking, comes the eating and the …
Awhile back my oldest daughter and I popped in to our local Ulta to schedule her a makeup application appointment for her homecoming dance. While we were scheduling, we noticed a mom and daughter getting makeovers together. I laughed and said, I could definitely use …
My husband and I have thrown a halloween party of some sort almost every year that we have been married. He loves scary gory Halloween. I am more Charlie Brown / Pottery Barn Kids Halloween but we both agree that it’s fun to throw some …
As many of you know my family lives in Florida. And while I love everything about my adopted state, I still really miss fall in the midwest even after all of these years in the south. Most years we travel to my sister’s house in …
Recently I realized that over the course of a year I had accidentally overhauled and simplified the way my family dealt with laundry. Doing laundry isn’t my favorite thing, but on a whole I don’t mind it. It’s better than running the vacuum and way …
I’m a Midwestern expatriate living in Florida. My husband and I relocated to the Florida Gulf Coast over 15 years ago and I cannot imagine living anywhere else. As adopted Floridians, many of our out of state friends ask us for our recommendations for where …
The other day my sister Amber, the other half of The Summers Collective, tagged me in a Williams Sonoma post featuring pumpkins. She was laughing about candy corn already being on the shelves. What I didn’t have the guts to tell her was I had …
A couple years ago I came across a photo of McWay Falls on Pinterest. The falls are set off from the highway and fall directly into the Pacific Ocean along the Big Sur coastline. It is one of the most beautiful places in California. You …