Our Cleveland Staycation!

Happy Tuesday my blog reading friends! As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, we did our annual staycation to end winter break and I have to say it was a good one! Not only was I grateful for the things we have in our life, but I was beyond blown away at how BLESSED we are to live in such a beautiful city.

Cleveland, Ohio gets a bad wrap. Not sure why, but in the past decade at least, there have been incredible transformations to the Downtown area. I have a great pride and love for our hometown and if you chose to visit it, I think you would be shocked too.

I highly recommend making a trip to Cleveland, especially if you have kids, there are plenty of things to do!

Summertime is obviously one of the best times to visit, you have the Flats, which allows you to dine on the gorgeous riverfront. There is Lake Erie and the Lake Erie Islands, where you can spend time on the beach or near the water! There is Cedar Point, an incredible place for families, I’ve shared this before. There are world class museums, beautiful architecture, incredible history, the second best Theatre District outside of New York City AND I cannot fail to mention our awesome sports teams, ha! Basically, you should add it to your bucket list!

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Life Lately – Winter Break Recap

Happy Thursday everyone! The kids are back off to school today and while the peace and quiet is nice, it’s so sad when they head back. We had a blast over break. It felt LONG, thinking back to their first day off, we spent so much fun time together and made many memories!

I figured I would kick off the new blogging year with a winter break recap! I LOVE blogging and always challenge myself to do better. Some way, some how, it always gets put on the back burner, whether I think the posts I share are pointless or I just physically don’t have the time or energy to write it out, I NEED to find a system that works for me here and I look forward to trying to achieve that in 2024!

With that being said, thank you so much for reading, supporting and sharing all your kind words on my blog over the past 5 and a half years! I am so blessed!

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What’s Up Wednesday [11.29.23]

It’s the last Wednesday of the month, and that means I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers Mix & Match Mama and Sheaffer Told Me To to share what has been happening around here! These are my favorite posts – I LOVE seeing what others have going on and love that I can look back at these someday!

Oh my goodness have I missed blogging! There is been so much happening around here that I never get ahead or around to it! Of course coming back and sharing in this post is the way to go as it is a good catch up! I hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving holiday and are getting more in the holiday spirit! I can’t believe we are weeks away from Christmas!

As always here’s a recap of what’s been happening around here lately!

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What’s Up Wednesday [09.27.23]

It’s the last Wednesday of the month, and that means I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers Mix & Match Mama and Sheaffer Told Me To to share what has been happening around here! These are my favorite posts – I LOVE seeing what others have going on and love that I can look back at these someday!

Hey September, you were a busy one! I love September and am so sad it’s coming to an end! Summer is officially over, but I hope there is still some awesome weather left for us!

As always here’s a recap of what’s been happening around here lately!

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Life Lately – Our Summer Recap – JUNE

Happy Thursday everyone! Hope you’re having a great week so far! We’re almost to the weekend, WHOA HOO! Today, I’m sharing our summer recap for JUNE! We’ve had a lot going on all summer long, and blogging took the back seat this summer, so here’s a brief update! Be sure to stop back here tomorrow for my FALL Friday Favs! I loved doing this post last year and I’m happy to start it back up again!

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Friday Favs – 09.08.23

Hey hey everyone! Happy Friday! My gosh how I’ve missed blogging! I’ll share in a summer recap post next week, but August kicked my back side! I will say it was nice to enjoy the final weeks of summer with my kiddos and we’ve been falling into an awesome routine!

Of course, I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers to share some Friday Favorites with you all!

Link up with Andrea and Erika
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Tip Jar: Back to School Checklist

Happy Thursday! I can’t believe we are a weeks away from a new school year beginning! We just got home from vacation and my husband just had a medical procedure done, so it’s been crazy around here! Last year, I put together a list of to-do’s to have completed prior to the first day of school and I figured I would share that here in case you are in the same boat preparing for all things back to school!

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What’s Up Wednesday [07.26.23]

It’s the last Wednesday of the month, and that means I’m linking up with some of my favorite bloggers Mix & Match Mama and Sheaffer Told Me To to share what has been happening around here! These are my favorite posts – I LOVE seeing what others have going on and love that I can look back at these someday!

Oh my goodness…summer can just S L O W up right about now! We’ve been making the most of it and have been extremely busy! I’ve been trying to be super present with the kiddos and the family and really have enjoyed our time together!

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Sharing our Summer Routine and Schedule

It’s the day before the first OFFICIAL day of summer and I am so excited to share some summer fun posts with you! A month ago, the kids and I sat down to chat about our new summer routine and what we wanted our summer to look like this year! I am the type of Mom that NEEDS a structured plan in order to get something accomplished. If I don’t have a game plan, we can fly through a day and look back and ask ourselves, what the heck did we even do today?!

In an effort to make summer fun and memorable (we get limited summer with these kiddos – especially these ages), we put together a summer schedule to encourage us to have the most amazing summer! I’m also sharing a very loose summer routine that I try to follow if I can! It helps give some form to our days and the structure is truly helpful for all of us!

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Let’s Look: Our Best Travel Tips

Good morning and happy Wednesday! I hope you are having an amazing week! Today, I’m linking up with Shay from Mix and Match Mama blog and Erica from A Little Bit of Everything blog to chat this month’s “Let’s Look” blog prompt – best travel tips.

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