What is better than a massage? A package of two or more massages!
I recently received a massage gift package, and for people like me who truly enjoy them, it’s a perfect gift idea.
It’s soooo relaxing!
Massages relieve stress, pains and muscle tension, and who doesn’t want to get rid of that yucky stuff?
Many massage clinics offer specials in packs of two, five, ten or more. Continue Reading
Couples who are also parents often don’t have much alone time together, especially during the day.
Recently, I talked my husband into a one-day staycation. We both took off from work on a Wednesday so we could hang out all day while our kids were at day care. Our own version of a play date!
Finally, we could do the fun things we’d been wishing to do but could never find the time with our busy schedules as working parents of a baby and a toddler.
As we planned what we’d do that day, we felt that long lost feeling of freedom slowly come back. We can do what we want, when we want! Woo hoo!
Our daytime date definitely had a different vibe compared to our evening dates. For one thing, we had a lot more choices about what to do. Forget about the usual dinner and a movie date.
Our lifelong friends, Curtis and Susan, my husband, and I have come up with a fun experience to spend time together – Hop in the Car One Day Road Trips.
In the early years, we spent a lot of time together. We doubled dated and later were in each other’s wedding parties. We even shared holidays.
Our lives got much busier when we were raising our children, and we spent less and less time together. But now that our kids are grown, you would think we would have more time on our hands but our lives are as busy as ever.
We may have dinner together for a few short hours in a noise-filled chain restaurant once a year. This was pitiful and had to change!
I came across the best restaurants for home cooked meals across the state of Oklahoma on TravelOK.com. We decided to plan Saturday trips every four to six weeks to visit Mom and Pop type places to eat and our travels included siteseeing along the way. Continue Reading
First birthdays are a big deal, not for the child as much as it is for the parents or maybe I should say–mothers.
I was more than thrilled to celebrate my child’s first birthday! They are walking, chattering and making the cutest expressions. I watched him 
open (with some help) his gifts. I snapped pictures of him eating his cake and making a huge mess.
I was one proud mother! I wanted my son to have a “Happy 1st Birthday” so I could have pictures to cherish and share with him when he got older.
All of us moms understand the significance of birthdays. My son, Dustin, who is single and 33 years old doesn’t have a clue.
When Dustin’s best friend Jayson called to remind him that his daughter was having her one year old birthday party in an hour and asked if he was coming, Dustin said, “Yes, I’m on my way.”
He had forgotten all about it and hadn’t purchased a gift!
My friend Janet and I enjoy visiting museums. One of our favorites is the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. There are literally thousands of paintings by artists of various time periods.
There we were walking from gallery to gallery when we came upon a painting that took up an entire wall. Although painted in 1879, the colors were still amazingly vibrant.
We both stared at the massive painting in awe when I said, “That’s you and me!”
It was a painting of two women – one with red hair and the other a brunette – living in a palace overlooking the sea. It was named The Favorite of the Emir by Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant. We laughed and joked of being pampered as royalty then moved on to the next gallery.
