Every year for New Years Eve we go to my mom's for game night. Living with my mom for now just made this tradition a little easier. My mom always has good snacks to snack on from pigs in a blanket, my personal favorite, to a veggie tray.
As usual Marley just chilled out on his blankets.We played several games: Uno, Qwerkle, and Clue. We may have played another game, but these are all I remember.Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Happy New Year!
Monday, February 13, 2023
Live Rich Planner
I've been a planner since elementary school. I primarily use the Happy Planner planners but decided to give The Budget Mom's Liver Rich Planner a try. It was a difficult transition going from a vertical Happy Planner to an hourly Live Rich Planner. After a week or two I began to figure out how I wanted to utilize the planner.
Each month starts with a monthly calendar like most planners.
I think this page is what I was most excited about. The Happy Planner has half sheets you can purchase to insert your meal plan in each week. I was tired of having to buy separate sheets just to meal plan. The other side has a cleaning section. I'm not sure how everyone else used this page, but I needed to know what I had to do each day. I'm sure there are other ways to utilize this page, but I can't think of any at the moment.This is the weekly spread. This was the first week I used the planner, and I quickly learned not to fill the whole work box with words. I needed to put in meeting information, so going forward I would just highlight my work times so I could still add any meeting information needed.Saturday, February 11, 2023
Inlet Beach 2022
We typically make our way to Panama City Beach, FL every year. This year we changed things up just a bit. We stayed in either the Rosemary Beach or Inlet Beach area. It was a little confusing because sometimes it came up as Rosemary while other times it showed Inlet Beach. My sister and nieces got to come, and it was such a fun trip.
Maddy, Marley, and I were in the back, while my sister rode up front with my mom. My stepdad also drove, and he had their dogs and my nieces.For our first night we ate at Schooners, one of our favorite restaurants.
It is on the beach, so while you wait for your table you can take in the beach views.I highly recommend the crab cakes appetizer. I also highly recommend the Mahi bites. I hate fish, but those were so good! For the entree I always get popcorn shrimp with fries.
We usually try to play mini golf. This trip was no exception, except we got caught in a downpour.
We were able to get a rain check or something similar and finish our game another day.
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Cades Cove 2021
Every year we make at least one or two trips to Cades Cove in Townsend, TN. We try to go in the Spring and Fall.
We went through North Carolina to get there to try and see the Elk. Me and Maddy have yet to see the Elk!
This was just beautiful in my opinion. I love our adventures and traditions. It helps to keep me going when life feels too hard.My mom shared her pictures with us. I think these are her pictures. We all agreed we wanted to ride this train in the fall.
After we go through Cades Cove we go eat at The Apple Barn. They have the best apple butter, apple fritters, and chicken. My usual order is chicken tenders. After we eat, we go to the Christmas Place.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Halloween 2021
Maddy decided she no longer wanted to trick-or-treat, but she did want to dress up. After church we went on a Halloween hike at Cravens House on Lookout Mountain. The views were pretty spectacular.
The plan was to hike a little and then Maddy would change into her costume, and we would walk at the park. Once we got home Maddy changed her mind about walking at the park in her costume. We decided to have a mini photo shoot at home instead. In case you can't tell, she was Black Widow, but she looked more like Yelena. That was such a good movie by the way!
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Pumpkin Patch 2021
One of our traditions every since Maddy was young is going to the pumpkin patch. We go to the same patch every year, Mayfield's Pumpkin Patch. 2021 was no different.
When Maddy was younger we would typically spend the first part of the day going from activity to activity. We would then take a food break and end with the corn maze. As she got older, we cut out all the activities and went straight for the food line, then the corn maze, and end the day with the pumpkin patch.
We always look forward to going to the pumpkin patch. This was the last year we went. We are looking for a new fall tradition to take its place.
Friday, February 3, 2023
Lost in the Woods
We decided to go on an adventure. We found a hiking trail last year called Cravens House Trail. While we were there, I noticed there was another trail that led to Point Park. Point Park overlooks the Lookout Mountain Battlefield and city of Chattanooga.
Our goal was to hike to Point Park. We started out just fine, but somewhere along the way we got lost. The sign said it was one and a half miles to Point Park. The longer we kept walking the more I began to question if we were on the right trail. We came to another trail and realized we were not on the right trail. I pulled up the map on my phone and Siri tried taking us back to the same trail we walked. We decided we would ignore Siri and walk the direction we thought we should go. After a while my gut told me we should listen to Siri. I pulled up the trail we were on and found we were on a 13.9-mile trail. It was at that point we decided to listen to Siri.
We found our mistake, but we were too tired to walk. The trail split off and we were too distracted to notice. We walked back to the car and drove to Point Park.
Point Park was breathtaking. We were both in awe. Maddy loves anything military related, so she enjoyed reading the signs throughout the park. There was a trail inside the park we would like to go back and hike.
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