Tweet I want to send out a big thank you to the Red Lobster on Cactus Road by Paradise Valley Mall. They sent me a gift card to check out their newly redesigned restaurant and menu with my family. I love any meal that I don’t have to cook or clean up, so this was [...]
Top 5 Date Night Restaurants – Phoenix Metro Area
Tweet One thing I wish my husband and I did more often, but rarely fit into our schedule, is date nights. About once every other month or so, we leave the kids with a sitter and get out of the house. It makes every other day of the week so much more enjoyable, having somebody [...]
Valentine’s Dinner In
Tweet I don’t know about you, but just thinking about the work that goes into going out for dinner on Valentine’s Day exhausts me. Finding a sitter, finding a reservation, finding something to wear, finding the kiddo’s favorite jammies, finding a time when my husband can get home early enough for dinner but late enough [...]
A New Concert Venue
Tweet It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. . . well, ok, it’s beginning to look like spring if you were anywhere other than the desert. But the fake trees in Costco let me know it’s coming! Christmas is only 44 days away!! I don’t know about you, but my kids, even my extended [...]
Stay in Date Night | Pan Seared Pork Chops with Bleu Cheese Sage Butter, Mashed Sweet Potatoes and Sautéed Apples
Tweet I LOVE everything about fall, and I mean everything! The weather starts to cool down, you can open your windows, light candles, drink cider…the list doesn’t end…but most of all I LOVE Fall food!! It is just delicious! So the other night I was really feeling inspired to bring the fall season to [...]
Ignite Romance for Better Date Nights
Tweet As the frantic days, weeks, months and years of family life pass; it’s easy to lose sight of the priority of your husband and your marriage. We become preoccupied by the demands of raising decent human beings, keeping a home, demanding jobs, etc. and before long; the thing you SWORE would never happen in [...]
Top 10 Date Night Restaurants
Tweet In honor of how much I LOVE date nights I thought I’d highlight my very favorite restaurants in a Top 10 List fashion. Cause everyone loves a Top 10 List, right?! 1. Elements. This is one of my most favorite “special occasion” restaurants in the Valley. The scenery is drop-dead gorgeous and [...]
GIVEAWAY | Date Night with Fleming’s DC Ranch & Maui Playcare
Tweet Ya’ll know how much I love a good date night? I’m always looking for a new restaurant to try for our next night out. So you can imagine my excitement when I found out that Fleming’s (DC Ranch) is partnering with neighboring Maui Playcare for a Date to Remember this coming Saturday, August 27th [...]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows| Mom’s Perspective
Tweet You may or may not be aware that the LAST Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 hits theaters TODAY! Well, it does. And it’s certainly worth seeing if you’re into wizards and dragons and good triumphing over evil, which I am. The movie itself is satisfying, if you’ve read [...]




















