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My Easy Meal Solution: Lunch-a-Bowls

My Easy Meal Solution: Lunch-a-Bowls

My favorite solution for picnics, road trips, and lunches for picky eaters. It’s basically a charcuterie board in a bowl. They can be basic and simple or more sophisticated depending on who it’s for. I am all about practical solutions and helpful ideas. So knowing that it is the time of year when we are…

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

How to plan your Weekend RV/Camping Trips so that they actually happen.🙂 In our family, we want weekend RV trips to occur frequently. But this takes some planning and some intention. Weekends away do not magically appear (nor does the budget to pay for campsites, or time to pack). I have discovered there are specific…

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

6 Quick Tips for Planning Weekend Trips

How to plan your Weekend RV/Camping Trips so that they actually happen.🙂 In our family, we want weekend RV trips to occur frequently. But this takes some planning and some intention. Weekends away do not magically appear (nor does the budget to pay for campsites, or time to pack). I have discovered there are specific…

Creating Vacation Harmony: Enjoying Moments Together

Creating Vacation Harmony: Enjoying Moments Together

RV travel and family vacations are very tricky to navigate.  There is a very wide mix of expectations and decisions to be made. The ways that we see the definitions of words like “fun”, “rest”, “activity”, and “food” can totally change what the trip looks like.  What may be working at home totally flips on…

Leaving for a Trip is Hard!

Leaving for a Trip is Hard!

Leaving for a trip is hard. There’s just no way around it. There’s so much to think about, so many things to get done, so many decisions to make and checkboxes to check off. This summer I had the experience of going on a personal retreat. Jim and the kids stayed home and I went…

6 Tips for Planning Weekend RV Trips

6 Tips for Planning Weekend RV Trips

This could also be called: How to plan your Weekend RV Trips so that they actually happen.🙂 In our family, we want weekend RV trips to occur frequently. But this takes some planning and some intention. Weekends away do not magically appear (nor does the budget to pay for campsites, or time to pack). I…

Maintaining Healthy Habits on Trips

Maintaining Healthy Habits on Trips

 A problem that we can run into is making good habits stick when we are on vacation. How do I keep moving forward in my health goals when I am in a different environment? What is the best way to plan for relaxation but not slide into old patterns? Decide the healthy choices that you…