The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ― Eleanor Roosevelt
Whether it’s girls night out or date night, family trips or book signings, you’re living your best Texas life. I’ll give you tips to help you decide what experiences are worth the splurge, where to cut corners, and when to bring your camera!
Don't let the post-holidays winter blues get you down. There's tons of things to do with the kiddos in DFW over the next couple of months! WHAT: Family Zoo Adventures Saturday Programs at the Dallas Zoo Families can explore the wonderful world of wildlife together...
Looking for something merry and bright -- and socially distanced -- to do with the family? Round everyone up into the car, grab some hot cocoa, tune into your favorite Christmas music station, and head out and enjoy some of these top DFW area Christmas light displays....
North Texas, it's time to get your holiday spirit on. Even the weirdness of 2020 isn't enough to stop Santa's fun! Here's a round-up of events for your family to enjoy: Holiday Shopping at Frisco Mercantile WHAT: From vintage finds, hard-to-find vinyl records,...
My kid has become aware of cars in the past year, and when I say "aware," I mean opinionated on which ones she likes. She's quick to make her views known on which one should be OUR next set of wheels. When she started pointing out pink Escalades and crossovers, I was...
“And if my day wasn’t bad enough, now I’m afraid to go home,” Big Daddy said as he outstretched his phone to coworkers to show them this video.Yes, that would be yours truly, breaking my very first board. I had no idea that I could do that – but hey, what a rush!...
Y’all, we love our pumpkin patches: the smell of hay, the maze, the kettle corn, the fields of orange pumpkins just waiting to come home with us. HOWEVER, we (specifically the hubs) hate the crowd. Good gracious, nothing ruins a fun day at the patch than overpriced...
Sunday Funday meant it was Perots geaux to the Fort Worth Alliance Airshow at Alliance Airport. None of us had been before, which is ridiculous considering it was the 25th Anniversary of it. If you read no further in this post, just heed my advice: Mark your calendars...
Remember when I told you about the birdhouse contest a few months ago? The one at the future site of SPARK! Adventures in Creativity, the new learning playground in the basement of Southside on Lamar in Downtown Dallas?Well, get excited Dallas! SPARK! is now open and...
I haven’t laughed this hard at a musical EVER. Seriously. I snort-laughed, I laughed so hard there were tears in my eyes. I had a great belly laugh evening with girlfriends. Young girlfiends. I don't care how old you are, Menopause The Musical: The Survivor Tour is a...
One of my favorite things about visiting different churches is gazing at the sunlight shining through their beautiful stained glass windows. What an incredible gift it is to be a stained glass artist and to tell stories with bits of light and colored magic! Look at...
The lake life is good. Lake life is even better with a boat. Even if you don’t live on the lake, chances are you spend some time on one of the 60 lakes in the DFW region. With that many lakes, it’s no wonder Texas is the #2 boating state in the US (Minnesota claims...
I had a conference at the Gaylord last weekend and discovered something I never knew about: The Gaylord Texan kids summer program rocks! Not just kids staying in the hotel, but any kid. Local kids. Even your kids. They've got the whole Wizard of Oz theme going on, and...
Lego is a big deal in our house. Now you can even see Lego AS a model house. Actually, not just any house, but the White House.And the Supreme Court. And the Lincoln Memorial... The Lego Americana Roadshow is wrapping up its first stop this summer at Stonebriar Mall...
Do you have one of those friends that you don’t see often, but when you do, you speak this broken sentence thing because you’re both so much on the same wavelength that you can just finish each other's thoughts and skip right on to the next one? Yeah, so, that’s my...
I’m lucky to live in a state that’s filled with a million miles of places to go – in fact, I barely need to leave North Texas to find the fun! Here are some of my favorite places to share with my family.
