🍁 From Southwest Missouri to Salem: Packing for Fall’s Witchy Wonderland If you’re heading from Southwest Missouri to Salem, Massachusetts around Halloween, you’re in for a treat — and a temperature shock. While we’re still mowing lawns and wearing hoodies in the morning but shorts by afternoon back home, Salem’s already deep into sweater weather,…
I once read that you spend a whole year of your life looking for things. Let that sink in for a minute. That’s the average. For some people, it’s obviously longer, and for others, it’s shorter. I’m not sure where I fall into that category, but it’d be interesting to know. It’d also be interesting…
A Missouri Girl’s Guide to Warm-Weather Adventures (and Escaping the Winter Blahs) If you live in Southwest Missouri, you know February isn’t exactly “pool weather.” It’s that time of year when we’re all dreaming of sunshine, saltwater, and not scraping ice or snow off of our windshields. So when a cruise to Costa Maya (hello,…
If you don’t want to read my post, watch the video here… Otherwise, I found this list the other day titled 31 Things to Add to Your January Bucket List. It intrigued me, so I had to read it. A few of the items left me scratching my head, but the rest—okay, I’ll buy them. If…
Wow, it’s been a hot minute since I was here last. Looks like October 7th of 2021. I’m trying to decide if I even remember how to do this quite honestly. A lot has happened since then, we’ve now been around the sun 3 times plus a few days/months. The world started slowly moving away…
A Missouri Girl’s August Adventure: Staying Cute, Comfortable & (Mostly) Dry If you’re heading from Southwest Missouri to Niagara Falls in August, get ready for one of the most breathtaking places in North America — and one of the wettest. It’s stunning, powerful, and a little chaotic (in the best way). Between the U.S. side’s…
I was thinking about this today… I started this blog in October 2009. That seems like a lifetime ago. This blog has seen me through dating my husband, marriage, having kids, losing my job, grad school, you name it, it’s probably there. That’s a super crazy and scary thought really. A question that people like…