Our Generation and Target are collaborating this weekend for family friendly and FREE Valentine craft workshops throughout the country. All workshops will be held this Saturday, February 11 from 10a – 1p. Bring your child by for a fun time making free crafts near the toy aisle.
The locations listed below will be hosting this fun event! For my readers in the Atlanta area, the workshop will be at the Acworth location.
My MIL nailed it with my Christmas gift. I imagine her stepping into H&M, holding this sweater dress up and saying, ” This is so Mimi”
I love this sweater dress, it will be in heavy rotation in the following weeks. I stepped out to a fun blog event last week that I’ll tell you all about soon and wore this awesome piece of clothing.
It’s gray, and plain except for the slits on the side and the seam down the center. The slits aren’t too high where it couldn’t be worn as a dress with a cute pair of leggings or tights. I opted for jeans.
Although it is sweater material you will be seeing this in the Spring with some sandals and rolled up sleeves.
I am likely to wear this one until it has lint balls on it. Judge me.
My bestie is getting married. I could go into a blog series about all of the levels of happiness I have for her and her new married life but I’m pretty sure if you aren’t part of the clique it just won’t have the same effect. Instead I’ll just share with you the epic amount of fun we had during our small little girls trip to Cherokee, North Carolina.
Before we got too far out of the city we stopped at Publix to gather our vittles for the weekend.
Let’s get into how we got all the way within stone’s reach of the cabin before we got lost and let’s just say there was a washed out road and barking dogs and a person in a house coat yelling , “Can I help you,” and all of the things women should be afraid on the top of a mountain.
Y’ALL.
After we fished ourselves out of that mess and back to the paved road, the weekend fun officially began. The cabin was pretty dope in a mountainy, country kind of way.
The animal decor did give me the creeps a little bit.
Was pretty sure this was the Wells Fargo train
The wrap around porches gave tons of serenity. We couldn’t have chosen a better weekend for sitting out. The temps were in the high 60’s.
Busy lives we all lead so no real plans were set, we just wanted to eat, have a few drinks and a ton of laughs and that’s just what we did.
So you already know the turn “in” was earlier than in our younger days. Sleep soon came and the morning welcomed a community cooked breakfast and mimosas and laughs and talks about retirement plans, and taxes and kids and husbands and you know grown woman ish.
We got ourselves together and headed down to the Harrah’s Casino for a little gambling. This was my very first time playing slots. I’ve been to Vegas but never played. Pretty sure everyone was annoyed with all of the questions I was asking. After I finally wrapped my head around how everything worked, armed with my lone $20 I set in…..to lose $18.
My misfortune was all by itself. Everyone else came up on a few hundred dollars. The casino was very nice minus the smell of smoke, I walked out with the worst headache and a head full of hair that reeked of the home of a chain smoker. Was glad to get out of there with my $2 tucked away for safe keeping.
Post Harrah’s we scurried back to the cabin, cause again…..mountain road, dark, no street lights…….
The grill and firepit was lit, and we settled in for another fun evening of girl talk and reminiscing on our younger years.
I don’t do hot tubs, so I was on boogey man watch.
Overall, the weekend was amazing, and for your viewing pleasure I summed up our weekend into a fun little 5 minute video. Be sure to like me on Youtube!
Enjoy!
When was the last time you snuck away with your girls for a few shenanigans?
Tossed out with the Christmas tree is the mild version of how January has left me feeling.
Business was off.
Financially trying to rebound from hosting Thanksgiving and Christmas was completely shaded when my car that just missed warranty mileage decided to break down and needed a VERY costly repair. Oh, about that emergency fund *rolls eyes*
Our garage door is broken and instead of just getting it fixed we decided we would get a new door then incident above happened. Operation garage door is off until further notice.
The hatred some of this country is proud of spewing and standing behind has been too much. TOO. MUCH
I’ve just been struggling to make sense of it all and keep going. My mind has been swirling at hundreds of miles an hour trying to figure out how to process some things to include analyzing a level of petty to get back at someone who came for me. I’m still in deliberation on whether I’m going to let it roll or execute a plan. I’ll keep you posted.
Despite all of the awful there was some good.
My Dad will be here for good on February 2. Las Vegas is a long way from Georgia, and we are so happy that we will get to see him more. He’s just 10 miles down the road now.
I spent a wonderful weekend in the North Carolina mountains celebrating my bestie that is getting married in a few weeks.
Despite all that is going on, health and a pure love of life allowed me to get through January without completely melting into the floor in a puddle of my own tears. This one was rough, but I’m still standing and ready for February with high expectations of great things!
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