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Best Restaurants for Families with Kids in New Orleans
Traveling with kids presents a special challenge, especially in a festive town like New Orleans. Where can you take them where they won’t be just completely blindsided with partygoer shenanigans? They need a place where happy excited kids on vacation will be not only tolerated, but welcome with open arms. And that restaurant better have a…
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Why Your Family Needs to Take a Road Trip
Family road trips are all about getting out to see the world. I absolutely love driving around out here near our home. There’s tons of trees, it’s super green, and it’s just completely gorgeous. Even though we live somewhere totally beautiful, it’s still important to get outside your bubble and see what else is out…
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Christmas Break Roundup – Happy New Year!
We’re so excited to be back in the office after a week off for the holidays – hope everyone had some great holidays with family and friends! Here’s a tiny recap of our Christmas break: This is one of my favoritest ever Christmas cards we’ve done for our family, and I almost didn’t think it…
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Four Years as a Self Employed Designer
Today is pretty dang special to me. December 1 is my self employed anniversary; I’m overjoyed to share I’ve been running this business full time, and our bills have been paid, for four solid years. Four years. It still feels so fresh – coming off of maternity leave with Phil, going in to the office…
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Why I’m Against Working the Night Shift
I saw a couple of colleagues post a link to this article on Fast Company this morning. It talks about how those of us that work from home struggle to stay productive when we share the office with our small children. The answer given in the article is working the night shift. When the kids…
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Just a Little Reminder That I Heart You
Even on the hardest of days, when we all feel like nothing is going right… Even on the most ridiculous days chock full of interruptions and madness, where it feels like we’re fighting an uphill battle and making zero headway whatsoever… I still love you, more than I can say, and this is all eighty…
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Yee-Haw! Rodeo at Ottowa Farms
Last night, my buddy Jenn joined Phil, Joy and I for a country-fried adventure – we checked out the first ever rodeo at Ottowa Farms! Okay, it was their second ever rodeo. We didn’t make it to night one. It was awesome that an event like this was so close to home, and even better…
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Father’s Day: Just Phil and His Dad
Phil’s been a muhmuh’s boy for as long as I can remember. And he’s always been into Josh, but lately something’s been different. There’s been a shift – he’s not any less into me, I don’t think… But nowadays, Phil is WAY into his dad. I don’t know if this is a byproduct of his…
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The Best Mothers Day Present Ever
I got the best Mothers Day present ever yesterday. There was so much great stuff about Mothers Day: 1) An entire full and complete day off from work. 2) A quiet breakfast with Phil while Josh slept off the getting home from work at 5am. 3) A 15 mile bike ride on the San Gabriel…
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Merry Christmas from Hearts and Laserbeams!
From all of us at Hearts and Laserbeams, cheers to all of you and best wishes for the happiest of holidays. May your Christmas be full of friends, family and fun! We’ll be driving down to old town Mesilla in New Mexico to enjoy some cider at Josephina’s and show Phil the 20 bazillion lumenarios…
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On the Road for a New Mex Xmas!
We hit the bricks for Christmas in Las Cruces, New Mexico with Josh’s mom Carole this week. And let me tell you this – if we’re flying somewhere, Josh and I pack light thanks to the airlines and their $25 a bag charges. But driving? Forget about it. That’s a whole other story. Road-tripping for us involves hours upon hours…
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Happy Halloween from the Hearts and Laserbeams Crew!
We spent the weekend carving pumpkins and gettin’ dressed up to visit Josh’s Uncle Donnie, Cousin Michelle and her little boy Thomas out in Riverside for a Halloween festival! Phil got to experience carving a pumpkin for the first time this year, and judging from his face when he’s got his hand in the midst…
