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Date your Dog on Valentine’s Day in Dog-Friendly Texas

Date your Dog on Valentine’s Day in Dog-Friendly Texas

Who loves you unconditionally, day in and day out? Your fur family! You hang the moon for them, and I’ll bet you love them to that same moon and back. Here’s an idea – skip the long lines and reservations this Valentine’s Day and take your one and only on a doggie...

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Artist Dog Challenge

Artist Dog Challenge

Could you have made it through the Covid quarantines without your fur-family? That’s a hard no from the Perots. We adore our doggos and their hilariously opposite personalities. Spending so much extra time with them during quarantine has been a positive and led me to...

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Reliant Gingerbread House Challenge

Reliant Gingerbread House Challenge

Gingerbread house decorating does not get more intense than the annual Reliant Energy Gingerbread House Decorating Charity Challenge and this year we had 45 minutes to create an award-winner.  No pressure. I mean, there are only thousands of dollars on the line! This...

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Downloadable eLearning Signs and Door Hangers

Downloadable eLearning Signs and Door Hangers

Did it take you a minute to get your head around the whole eLearning, virtual school thing? Yep, me too. There's a whole generation of moms out there that now have a new appreciation for their kids' teachers. But it's not just wrangling your kids through the...

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Where I Sell My Stuff

Decluttering is good but it’s even better when you can make a little money. Here are the places I sell my stuff to get you started on clearing out preloved clothes and items.

Tips for back-to-school virtual learning space planning

Get ready for back-to-school! Tips from an interior design expert for setting virtual leaning space planning for one or several kids.

10 Rules for a Fauxcation

Follow my blog with Bloglovin How many Sunday nights do you say… "Ugh, I wish the weekend was longer." Every Sunday? Yeah, me too. I am overdue for a vacation so I decided to take a "fauxcation."  Mine was a 10-day break from work and whatever else I just didn't feel...

Help Me Celebrate our Website Relaunch

What has happened here??? via GIPHY  Think back to a decade ago: The market had crashed; Apple released its new product, the iPad; Justin Beiber was just discovered on YouTube. Social media had started getting real momentum and blogging was this new phenomenon...
Framing the not so picture-perfect day

Framing the not so picture-perfect day

So let me tell you about my day yesterday. Nothing ruins your mood like a nail in your tire. I suspected that I had one so I went to (unnamed national tire place) and stood in line for 30 minutes to talk with someone, watching them be forcefully nice and work every...

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Thanksgiving Traditions

Thanksgiving Traditions

This post is sponsored by Just Right Pets by Purina. The beast and I are brand insiders, however all opinions are my own.We’re off on our Thanksgiving adventure and the little one is abuzz with the anticipation of turkey and rolls, and cousins she hasn’t seen in ages....

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Child Passenger Safety Week

Child Passenger Safety Week

Child Passenger Safety: What You NEED to Know!Last week I attended a safety academy in Dallas with other moms from Bloggin’ Mamas. The academy was a Nissan Diversity Event and was held in conjunction with Child Passenger Safety Week 2017, which ran from September...

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How I get my kid to love to read

How I get my kid to love to read

You may have seen my IG post recently about my hail mary effort to get the Cupcake to start reading again before school starts with a collection of comic books -- all the comic books she wants. She’s a GREAT reader, in fact she tests at the top of the charts on...

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How my daughter running track changed my life

How my daughter running track changed my life

I’m raising a tiny athlete. She loves sports and has an insatiable appetite for soccer and basketball. Though this summer, she asked to add track and field into her sporty mix. Having been a track junkie growing up, I wasn’t about to say no – although I had some...

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WHY does my dog DO that?!

WHY does my dog DO that?!

Dogs are our best friends, right? But even your best friend can do things that make you scratch your head in wonder, “Why does my dog DO that?!”

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Stephanie Hollman talks about the Holidays

Stephanie Hollman talks about the Holidays

Aside from entertaining us on the hit Bravo TV show, the Real Housewives of Dallas, Stephanie Hollman off camera is a breath of fresh air. Beautiful, down to earth and big hearted, she shared a few minutes of her crazy schedule to chat with me about the upcoming...

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Tips for Decorating A Gingerbread House

Tips for Decorating A Gingerbread House

How cute are all the gingerbread houses that kids decorate each year?! They’re adorable and nothing is more fun than family time for this team project. Well, and eating the candy, right? Half for the house, half for our bellies? Some kids approach decorating a...

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Lauren Bush Lauren connecting with Girl Scouts

Lauren Bush Lauren connecting with Girl Scouts

Do you ever wonder where the spark comes from? When you meet someone who is truly making a difference in the world in their very own unique way? Where did the path start? How did the journey get them to this place and how many hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions...

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Simple Back to School Celebration Ideas

Simple Back to School Celebration Ideas

The Cupcake is not excited for the end of summer but she did utter – and then take back really quickly – that she was looking forward to school starting. Oops. She loves shopping for school supplies and a new backpack and seeing her friends, but the easy breasy summer...

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