In this blog series, we’re exploring the multiple stages of event planning, providing valuable tips to maintain organization throughout the entire process and guarantee a seamless event execution…
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If you're looking for great Christmas gift ideas, we’ve got you covered. We've curated a fantastic list of gift ideas for your friends and family…
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In this series of blogs, we are exploring the various phases of event planning to offer helpful tips to keep you organized throughout the entire process and ensure that your event runs smoothly. In part 2, we'll be focusing on the pre-event phase, where you'll be putting the finishing touches on your event and preparing for the big day…
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Event planning is a complex process that involves anticipating needs and asking the right questions at the right time. Whether you're planning a lunch meeting, scheduling a speaker, or helping run a conference, it's important to understand the fundamentals of event planning.
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We were thrilled to spend the week of Thanksgiving with Calvin’s parents that were visiting from Florida. It was a wonderful few days of spending time together, sharing meals, and creating new memories together. Thanksgiving has become such a dear celebration to me and our family and really sets a foundational tone of gratitude for the holiday season.
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This month, we celebrated our son, Abner, turning 4 years old. Abner is very passionate about the things he loves: the color blue, good food, and dinosaurs. Every year we ask our boys what theme they want for their birthday. Their decision is usually based on whatever their favorite things happen to be at the time. So it’s only natural that Abner would request a T-Rex birthday.
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This month, we celebrate our son Emet turning 6 years old. Sometime over the last year, our boys discovered and quickly fell in love with the show Bluey. So it’s only natural that Emet wanted his birthday to be Bluey themed this year.
Emet, as we celebrate your 6th year, here’s a small list of things we love about you…
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2022 marks over five years of blogging. Over the years, I’ve written on a wide variety of topics from parenting and cooking to staying organized and setting goals. I’ve even brought in some friends to help contribute along the way.
Below you will find the top ten most read blogs from the last five and a half years. I hope you enjoy this variety of posts and that they’re helpful to you in some way.
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Each year I like to put together a collection of the most read blog posts. As your new year gets off the ground, here are 10 blogs to help you stay organized, motivated, and well-rested.
Cheers!
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I love looking back on the holidays and seeing the highlights from the season. It’s fun to see the boys expecting to revisit old traditions each year and experience excitement as we introduce some news ones. We started the Christmas season a bit earlier this year by stringing up our lights outside before Thanksgiving. We had the time, the weather was warmer, and we knew how busy things would get on the other side Thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving, for us, is a much slower paced holiday. We spend the day before prepping dishes and the smell of food fills our home. I love being in the kitchen with Calvin listening to music while the boys watch a movie or play in the other room…
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When the summer began winding down I thought it would be fun to have an end of the summer party at our home. We’d invite some of our dear friends for grilled food, swimming, and time to soak in the final days of warmth before fall hit. Well…life got busy, deadlines with work approached, and we had to table the idea for an end of summer party…
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With Thanksgiving around the corner, I thought it would be fun to compile a list of my blogs to help with your planning! Here are a few recipes and little things we’ve done to make this time of year intentional. Enjoy!
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When I was in the process of designing my website and thinking through topics I could write about, the topics of this book became my first blog series. The blog series was intended to be simple and concise, but I had written more content than would be helpful for reading in a minute or two. So I had it in the back of my mind that I would put this together into an eBook of some sort in the future…
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I’ve released a brand new Fall Bucket List in my resources. Don’t let this season slip by and miss doing something new or revisiting some of your favorite traditions. Download the bucket list, write them down, and make it happen.
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Abner, as you turn 3 years old, I wanted to list out some of the wonderful things I love about you at this age. I love that you still find comfort from your blanket and it’s tag, I love how passionate you are with you kisses, how you always put your hands on your hips, or put your arm around my neck whenever you come near…
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It seems like there’s always a growing list of fun things I want to do - both personally and as a family. It helps to write these things down, but often they end up in the back of my notebook or daytimer on a page I’m not frequently checking. I wanted to create something that would allow me to display the fun things we want to do as a family in a prominent place - that way we’re thinking about them and prioritizing making them happen…
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Turning 5 is a big deal. Well, every birthday in the Payne home is a big deal. ;) As you know, around here we don't just have a birthday, we celebrate a birthday week. Last year we had a big party for Emet when he turned 4 and invited all of his friends to join him at the trampoline park. It was one of the last big social events that we've been a part of since COVID…
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Christmas 2020 was a sweet one. We worked really hard to get everything done and then we stopped. Just us. We put our phones down, stopped checking emails, and shared time with each other playing games, putting together legos, and eating way too much food…
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Christmas decor has a way of changing the whole feel of our living space. And when it comes to decorating for the holidays some years I’m more in the mood for decorating than others. But 2020 is by far the most I’ve ever looked forward to and anticipated the transformation. This was the most into decorating the boys have ever been as well. I let them do as many decorations as they wanted to. It was a joy to see the excitement and anticipation all over their little faces…
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