As anyone who lives away from their family knows, the holiday season can be more of a logistical nightmare than a warm and fuzzy dream. Since moving to Charlotte seven years ago, we haven’t always been able to get to our families in time for the holidays. We feel really fortunate to be in positions now where we can take the time off or take our work with us, but it’s still pretty stressful to bounce from one house to […]
keep reading...jamaica in october, our third anniversary
We’ve wanted to visit Jamaica for a long time and thanks to some creative planning help from my parents who have been several times, we were able to get our October trip booked at the end of last year. We decided to catch flights out of Baltimore so that we could drop Ollie off on his own little vacation with my parents and took our time driving up on Saturday. When we landed in Montego Bay Sunday afternoon, we were […]
keep reading...quick family visit, tennessee in september
When my sister told me they were having a little party for our niece Emma‘s first birthday at their farm, we couldn’t resist the excuse to make a quick trip to Tennessee to be there. Eric, Ollie, and I packed up in the car and drove in on Saturday morning, stopping at Krystal before checking into our hotel and taking a long walk. We headed out to Jen and Tim’s farm for the afternoon and caught up with family, ate hot […]
keep reading...mother/daughter trip, las vegas in august
Mom and I agreed on our mother/daughter trip to Wilmington last year that we would try and make it an annual thing we do. We were considering coastal destinations again, but found that everything kept getting pricier the longer we waited to make up our minds. After traveling to Vegas for a quick work trip in February, the hotel I stayed at sent me a comped room package offer one morning while Mom and I were discussing options. With a […]
keep reading...weekend with my parents, maryland in july
I’ve been missing my parents lately, since I hadn’t seen them since a short layover back in February. My mom and I have our second annual girls’ trip coming up next month, but I probably won’t see Dad again until the holidays. After we realized a Wednesday 4th of July trip wouldn’t be possible with the travel time/PTO for Eric and I both to make a long visit this summer, I found a cheap weekend flight and decided to make […]
keep reading...weeknight dinner, morganton in june
My sister and brother-in-law were taking a trip to Asheville last week and since we don’t see each other very often, we wanted to meet up for a couple hours. Charlotte is a couple hours away from Asheville and it was a weeknight, so we had no idea where to meet. I looked at the map between our house and their B&B and found a little town off the highway, with a restaurant that served both pizza and steak, had […]
keep reading...a graduation weekend, atlanta in may
A little over three years ago, my friend Bailey told me she was thinking of applying for law school and asked if I thought she was crazy. She had already completed a master’s degree and was working in her field before she realized she could do more meaningful work in a court room. Law school is a beast of its own, and B was looking at all the ways her life could change if she went down this road. It […]
keep reading...las vegas in february
I was invited to a Friday night work event in Las Vegas and I was excited to finally visit the city, even if I had to be working for most of the trip. Everyone else attending was coming from the West Coast, but my boss’ boss told me to fly in early with the distance/time difference. I thought she was being over-cautious at first, but after spending over 9 hours in airports or planes Thursday, I was very grateful to […]
keep reading...our second anniversary, williamsburg in october
After embracing the classic anniversary gift of “paper” last year (at the casino), I really wanted to continue the unique tradition and plan a trip around whatever the second classic anniversary was. I saw it was cotton and got excited, thinking we would easily be able to find someplace great nearby. As I did more research though, I started to get really turned off by the idea. Eric and I love history and have been to several cotton fields, functioning […]
keep reading...another girl’s weekend, nashville in september
This past weekend was my girl Ali’s bachelorette weekend and I was so happy to help plan it for her in Nashville! After visiting Nashville on another bachelorette trip in March, Ali and I sat down to talk about what she would enjoy most while two of her other bridesmaids and I secretly worked out the details. After driving the bulk of the way there when going to visit my sister for a couple days in Tennessee, I had a […]
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