February is the New January

February is the New January

Eryn and I were talking earlier this week about how we both usually do really well with a January reset. We are normally both ready to get back to our usual routines, start eating better, dive into a new workout program. But not so much 

A Day Trip to Dooley Groves

A Day Trip to Dooley Groves

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 

8 Tips for Finding the Best Dog Boarding Facility

8 Tips for Finding the Best Dog Boarding Facility

If you are anything like us, your pups are your family. For us, they are like our kids. We literally take them everywhere with us from vacation to camping and on the boat. We rarely go somewhere that they can’t come along. However, there are 

Bring it on January 2019!

Bring it on January 2019!

I have a love hate relationship with January. On one hand, it is offers a clean slate, a time to reset. But on the other hand, it is a clean slate. Accomplishments from 2018 are old news and we each have to accomplish all new 

Making Holiday Travel into a Vacation

Making Holiday Travel into a Vacation

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 

Tips for Surviving the Holiday Food Train

Tips for Surviving the Holiday Food Train

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 

What’s in my Pantry – Snacks

What’s in my Pantry – Snacks

I think you all know by now how much I love to cook. But let’s be real. I work a 40 hour a week job as a sales rep that has me on the road 3000 miles a month, help my husband with his company 

What’s in my Pantry – Baking Essentials

What’s in my Pantry – Baking Essentials

I always thought I ate healthy. But after some pesky health issues just wouldn’t go away I embarked on a journey that led me to my current nutrition plan. I looks somewhat like Paleo or Keto or Whole 30 but it is truly designed just 

Throw an Easy Halloween Pumpkin Carving This Weekend

Throw an Easy Halloween Pumpkin Carving This Weekend

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 

Move the Hanger

Move the Hanger

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