This year has been rough for a lot of people. While we've all grappled with pandemic fatigue, boredom, stress, and cabin fever, others have also dealt with sickness and loss. Unfortunately, over 300,000 people have lost their lives to the coronavirus. That's such a mind-blowing number that it can be hard to imagine. ...
Holidays
Creating New Holiday Traditions This Season
Whew, what a year! 2020 has been the year that no one saw coming. What started off as a year full of ambitions and hopes and dreams, turned into a year of doing what we could to stay sane and healthy with little focus on anything else. As the Christmas season picks up and with The Rona still being a thing, it's the ...
How to Host Friendsgiving – Celebrate the Season with Friends
Last year I hosted my very first Friendsgiving and it was so much fun that I'm determined to do it again this year despite #TheRona (in a safe way, of course). The holidays are always a special time of year for me, in both happy and sad ways. I grew up looking forward to all of the Puerto Rican food that we'd be eating ...
Halloween COVID-Style – Ideas to Stay Safe and Have Fun
Y'all know that Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday. No joke, I love Halloween. The costumes, the decorations...everything! Surprisingly, I don't like scary movies or haunted houses. When the hubs and I were house hunting and we saw our home and its porch, I immediately thought of all the the decorations I could have! So ...
How To Best Prepare For Vacation
Traveling can be stressful without proper planning! Things can get left behind during the rush to make a flight or hit the road at a certain time. You can forget phone chargers, that extra swimsuit or toiletries! No more are the days of feeling anxious or forgetting a must-pack item. Check out our top tips for how to ...
How to Throw a 4th of July Party for the Entire Family
Forth of July calls for the best backyard barbecues, games, parades and all the red white and blue. Here are a few ideas of how to throw your own outdoor party for the entire family: Cornhole Tournament Nothing says 4th of July backyard barbecue quite like a game of cornhole. If you don’t already have an outdoor ...