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Life Lately…One Big Update on Life
Heeeeyyyyyy! I’ve missed blogging. I’ve missed this space. I have been trying to blog again for a couple of weeks (months?) now and a variety of things have been holding me back from that. But, enough is enough so I decided to sit down and finally write something. I thought a “Life Lately” post might be a good place to start. Alright, I’ve been sitting in front of my laptop for 10 minutes trying to figure out what to say. I really want to write this post and hopefully somehow maybe get back into blogging again because I really love it and it makes me happy. One of the things…
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48 Hours in Asheville: A Weekend Guide
A couple of weeks ago, Macy & I headed north for a fun 48 hours in Asheville. Maybe it’ll give you a couple of ideas for your next trip to Asheville. It’s the perfect long weekend getaway because it’s only a 3.5 hour drive. If Macy & I said it once we said it two dozen times: “I bet this is so pretty in May or October.” The mountains were pretty as we drove up to and around Asheville but the trees weren’t so much. It’s probably beautiful with the fall leaves or when everything is blooming in the late spring & summer. Asheville didn’t feel jam-packed nor did we…
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My 5 Favorite YA Authors
Y’all know that I love YA (young adult) books so I thought today would be a perfect day to share with you my 5 Favorite YA Authors! I have been reading some of these authors for YEARS. I mean, years! High school years actually. At this point, I don’t even blink when one of these authors comes out with a book. I don’t even need to read the summary on the back of the book. It’s an “add-to-cart” moment for me, pretty much entirely automatic. That’s how good these authors are & I am so excited to share them with you! You may recognize a couple of them because I’ve…
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Chocolate Brownie Cake
My family has been eating this Chocolate Brownie Cake for years. It’s so good! We would request it for birthdays & a family friend would make it for us. Eventually, she got busy/moved away so she gave us the recipe so we could make it for ourselves! Thank goodness for that! I’ve been sitting here trying to think about how to describe this cake. Honestly, it’s a cake of its own. I’ve never had one like it. It’s not like a chocolate cake & the frosting isn’t like chocolate frosting. This cake is not like a brownie though the batter is incredibly thick like brownie batter. It’s just…a Chocolate Brownie…
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Honesty Hour: Current State of Affairs
My whole goal with these honesty hours & my blog in general is to be real & share the current state of my life. To bring real life–the good, bad, and ugly–to the Internet. I feel like it can really be a highlight reel and there’s nothing necessarily wrong with that. At times it can be refreshing, inspiring and pretty to look at, but I think so often we can forget that it is a highlight reel. So I wanted to pull back the curtain in some ways and just be honest with the things that I share. To share the pretty parts but also share some of the behind…
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5 Family Friendly Dinner Recipes
I cook 3 nights a week in my house and making family friendly dinner recipes is mandatory so there isn’t a mutiny. One of my early blog posts was about my 5 favorite dinner recipes. I wanted to update that post to reflect how I’m cooking now. We ate those few recipes so many times that we haven’t made them in a long time. We needed a break from them so I’m sharing my new 5 family friendly dinner recipes. They’re also easy recipes so if you’re a beginner cook, these recipes are a great place to start. If you just don’t like cooking in general, you’re going to like…
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Meredith’s Recommended Books: December
It’s time for the December Recommended Books. I can’t believe it’s been 1 whole year of “Meredith’s Recommended Books” series! This series pushed me to read more non-fiction books than I ever have in my life. Before, I used to read non-fiction books randomly but this year pushed me out of my reading comfort zone. More psychological thrillers entered my life & I read books from a ton of new authors too. I don’t always want to recommend books that you’re seeing everyone else read & recommend. I want to find new authors that you’ve never heard of and hopefully I’ve done that some this year. I’m really excited about…
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A DIY Gratitude Jar & My Experience
Back at the end of 2016, I had the idea to create a DIY gratitude jar. The idea was to write down what I’m grateful for/happy about from each week. Naturally, I roped my family into it as well. At the end of every week, we would write down one thing we were grateful for. That was it. One thing. Now, if you know my family at all you would know that “thrilled” wasn’t a word that would be used to describe how they felt about this. Well, some more than others. I’m not going to call anyone out in particular but sometimes someone would have to write 2 things…
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Honesty Hour: (Home) For the Holidays
This is supposed to be an Honesty Hour all about Christmas & the New Year & being home for the holidays. But I’ll be honest and say that the only words I have for this blog post as I’m typing it is “Merry Christmas & Happy New Year”. That’s it. All I’ve got. And this blog post goes live in less than 48 hours. Yikes. Holiday Celebrations Back when this pandemic started, I (and a lot of others I’m sure), thought it’d be over by the holidays. Life would go back to “normal”. We’d celebrate the holidays how we always have, a.k.a. with our families. But here we are. Still…
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My 1 Year Blogiversary: A Year in Review
December 5. That’s the official date of my 1 year blogiversary. I cannot believe that it’s been a year of blogging! It has absolutely flown by so fast. When I started blogging I don’t think I thought this far ahead. I mean, I knew that I wanted it to grow and take off and provide much value for many years to come. But I also wasn’t planning a year ahead either. For me, the saying of “just start with a single step” was my motto. I was barely planning a month in advance. I planned a blog post week by week until I got into a groove and had some…
