Year: 2016

Ayutthaya

Travels in Thailand – Ayutthaya

Ready to continue on with our travels in Thailand? We now leave Bangkok and head about 80 km North. The next stop I’d like to share with you is our first visit to a Unesco World Heritage Site called Ayutthaya. Ayutthaya Ayutthaya was the second and most prosperous capital of Siam, founded in 1350. Ayutthaya was an international trading […] Read more…

Finding Dory

Disney – Pixar’s Finding Dory

Have you been to the theater yet to see Disney – Pixar’s Finding Dory ? If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? I’m pretty sure I don’t need to tell ANYONE who Dory is. If you’re not sure, then you probably live in a cave somewhere and simply need to come out now and […] Read more…

Visit to Florida

Visit to Florida

Recently (as in last week), I paid a visit to Florida. I lived in Florida for my High School (in Kissimmee) and College (in Tampa) years. And, yes, I even worked at Disney World when I was in High School – aka the BEST JOB EVER!! My Mom still lives in Kissimmee and I made a visit to […] Read more…

The Grand Palace Bangkok, Thailand

Travels in Thailand – Bangkok Day 2

I remember still being a bit jet-lagged on day 2 of our Travels in Thailand. On this day, we were still exploring the city of Bangkok and getting used to the sights and sounds that would  become expected and familiar in touring this fabulous country. Sites such as elephants roaming the roadways: And families squooshed […] Read more…

Bangkok

Traveling to Thailand – First Stop Bangkok

A couple of years ago, Jimi (aka Pops) and I took a trip Traveling to Thailand and Cambodia. I never really posted much about this trip. In fact, there are a lot of vacations in the last few years that I don’t seem to have posted much about. I was a lazy travel blogger you could say. […] Read more…

Beauty and the Beast

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast

WOW, did you even know this was happening?? Disney is remaking the “Beauty and the Beast” animated classic into a live-action film. This version is a re-telling of the movie we all fell in love with from the tale as old as time for a more modern audience. This version will stay true to the original music while updating the […] Read more…

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Are You Using Snapchat

Honestly, I confess, I’m pretty obsessed with using Snapchat lately. As a social media outlet, I find it so much fun to share the bits and pieces of my day with this app. AND don’t even get me started with all the fun filters you can use! Even Jimi has gotten into the fun of […] Read more…

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Lions, Tigers & Bears OR Blogging, Opinions & Stuff

Wow, there are a lot of “opinions” out there lately! Opinions on many, many topics. The blogging world has been shaken around this week with controversy over “Mommy Bloggers” and truths and authenticity and the judgements have been released like a swarm of locusts. Lots and lots of thoughts and opinions have been shared: Strong Opinions […] Read more…

Captain America: Civil War Review

I luckily got to see this movie last night. Yes, go see it! It’s a great movie and shouldn’t be missed. The action starts right at the get-go and continues throughout the whole show. Don’t be fooled by the title and the team picking (#teamCap or #teamIronMan) this movie is not simply a Captain America […] Read more…

San Francisco Spring Break

San Francisco – City by the Bay -The City – whatever you call it, I’m sure you’ll agree it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. We are so lucky to live close to such an amazing place and also lucky we were able to spend 3 days there recently with the monkeys […] Read more…

St. Thomas & St. Maarten

Here are some more recent cruise photos to share with you!!! After our first stop in Nassau, our Princess Cruise ship stopped in St. Thomas and St. Maarten. This was in February, a perfect time of year to go to the Caribbean! This was Pops & my 5th cruise with Princess Cruise Lines and it […] Read more…

Nassau

Here’s a little Wordless Wednesday post of photos from our recent cruise ship stop in Nassau in the Bahamas. The sky this day was full of mystery making for some dramatic pics! More cruise ship photos and fun posts are coming!!! Read more…

Disney’s The Jungle Book – MOVIE REVIEW

UPDATED: Wednesday April 13th to include my movie review at the bottom of this post after the movie description. Okay, be honest, when you saw the original “Jungle Book” cartoon, you kinda wished you were Mowgli living with the animals in the jungle, right ? Or was that just me? Well, maybe not Mowgli sitting […] Read more…

Wordless Wednesday

Well, almost wordless. Here are a few pics of life around here this past week. Of course, they focus on my favorite things – Grandsons, Bubba and Food!! Read more…

Happy Easter

Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter and a beautiful Spring day with family and friends! Holidays make me wish I was closer to all of my family and friends, but I am grateful for the ones I will spend time (eating & visiting) with today. I will definitely be trying to not eat too much […] Read more…

My Morning Ritual of Meditation

Recently, Martha Stewart re-posted a link from Pop Sugar Moms on Facebook about Good Morning Habits. The article spoke about how some people are “active” morning people and some are calm and “languid” morning people. I fall into the “calm” morning person category. In fact, a prominent part of my morning includes breathing exercises and a morning […] Read more…

Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass

I was fortunate enough to preview Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass on Tuesday night, so I’ll add a no-spoiler little review here before my previous informational post about the movie. Disney’s Alice Movie Review Open up your imagination and let it soar – as you should when seeing any movie directed by Tim Burton. […] Read more…

EPCOT

Happy time change day!! Hope getting up today hasn’t been too rough on anyone. A little bit tougher here as it’s (finally) raining and the sound of the drops hitting our rooftop always make me calmer and a bit drowsy. Not complaining though as I love that we’re finally getting a much needed soaking and hope it continues […] Read more…

A Visit from Hedwig?

(this post is written by Pops) On Friday night, Lita and I were having a quiet evening at home when, unexpectedly, an owl (which, for sure, had a prior life as a kamikaze pilot) came down our chimney, through the fire, over our fireplace screen and began flying around our living room. From experience, I […] Read more…

The Bubbster

It’s 2016 and here he is still doing well. If you have a Frenchie then you know about all the issues that can arise (out of nowhere) with these little ones. Today I just thought I’d post a few very recent pics of Bubba – a little Friday fun! Here he is in his morning […] Read more…