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Holiday Lights, Family Nights: Cary’s Chinese Lantern Festival Delights Everyone #MBPHGG25

Holiday Lights, Family Nights: Cary’s Chinese Lantern Festival Delights Everyone #MBPHGG25
The holidays become hectic fast, with various performances to attend, dazzling parades to see, and gifts to purchase. This season, slow down and savor the magic! Head over to Cary's Koka Booth Ampitheatre for this year's Chinese Lantern Festival
Finding Peace: A Self-Care Guide for the Holiday Season

Finding Peace: A Self-Care Guide for the Holiday Season

The holidays are often described as the most wonderful time of the year, but let’s be honest—sometimes they feel more like a whirlwind than a celebration. Between family gatherings, financial pressur…
Holiday Season With a Newborn: A Cozy Circus Filled With Magic, Milk, and Mild Chaos

Holiday Season With a Newborn: A Cozy Circus Filled With Magic, Milk, and Mild Chaos

Welcome to your newborn’s first holiday season—also known as the time of year when you try to be merry, magical, and memory-making… while your newborn tries to survive life one nap at a time and your…
Travel Through Taste: Eat2Explore Makes a Perfect Holiday Gift for Families #MBPHGG25

Travel Through Taste: Eat2Explore Makes a Perfect Holiday Gift for Families #MBPHGG25

Growing up, our family vacations were pretty localized or to specific places. While we had adventures, most of our travels were localized to the northeast or southeast. As I grew older and learned ab…
Grey Muzzles on the Go: Traveling With Your Senior Best Friend

Grey Muzzles on the Go: Traveling With Your Senior Best Friend

When my friends asked if I could come visit on Thanksgiving, my first thought was what to do with my senior dog. Petsitters during the holidays is extremely expensive and difficult to book, his Aunt …
Sniff, Seek, Smile: The Hide & Scent Gift That Kids and Dogs Love! #MBPHGG25

Sniff, Seek, Smile: The Hide & Scent Gift That Kids and Dogs Love! #MBPHGG25

Thank you to Hide&Scent for providing the Hide&Scent Kids Edition in exchange for this post. All thoughts are my own. It is that time of the year again! If you're a mom, then you know.  Fi…
Giving Thanks for My Village

Giving Thanks for My Village

November always nudges me into a deeper sense of gratitude. Maybe it’s the crisp mornings, the cozy evenings, or the way Thanksgiving quietly reminds us to pause and appreciate what truly matters. Fo…
Sprinkled With Magic: Acrobatic Artists Who Make "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet" Sparkle  #MBPHGG25

Sprinkled With Magic: Acrobatic Artists Who Make "Nutcracker! Magical Christmas Ballet" Sparkle #MBPHGG25

Photos are provided by Talmi Entertainment and 829Studios.  Viewing a performance of "The Nutcracker" ballet during Christmas has become a past-time that families have enjoyed since 1892! Ba…
Talk Tuesday: The Things No One Tells You (But We Should)

Talk Tuesday: The Things No One Tells You (But We Should)

As a mom to an almost two-year-old and a brand-new newborn, I’ve realized how common it is for people to greet this season with warnings. You hear things like, “Just wait until you get no sleep,” or …
Cheers to Eighteen Years!

Cheers to Eighteen Years!

Eighteen years. Somehow it feels like it’s flown by… and yet, when I look back at everything we’ve walked through together, it feels like we’ve lived a lifetime in these years—side by side, hand in h…
Carolina Opry Christmas Show: Where Even the Grinch Would Have a Blast #MBPHGG25

Carolina Opry Christmas Show: Where Even the Grinch Would Have a Blast #MBPHGG25

Carolina Opry provided the tickets for this post. All thoughts are my own. As we get older, my sister and I go around about Christmas gifts every year. There is nothing that the kids, or I, really nee…

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