Aidan’s 1st Day of School

Well, my little boy started kindergarten today… and despite my initial thought that I would be a sobbing mess, we both actually handled everything quite well. Luke and I both went to drop him off after getting up at 6am to make sure everything went smoothly.  Having met the teacher and explored the classroom last week, Aidan [...]

2009 Road Trip – Stone Mountain, GA

After eight nights away from home, I can say that we were ready to wrap up the vacation and sleep in our own beds.  But, we had one last pit stop at Stone Mountain, GA to go.  It was a one night stop that was supposed to break up the trip back to Tampa. We [...]

2009 Road Trip – Helen, GA

The 3rd pit stop on our southeast road trip was Helen, GA.  It was a lot closer to Asheville, NC than I thought so we were there in no time at all. For this leg of the tour, we opted to rent a cabin.  I found Blue Ridge Cabin Rentals online and booked their “Natural High” cabin.  We [...]

2009 Road Trip – Asheville, NC

From Savannah, we loaded up once again for the 2nd leg of our southeast road trip.  Our destination was Biltmore, in Asheville, NC.  The Vanderbilt estate is something I’ve always wanted to check out, and it was just far enough away from Savannah to avoid any issues with the kids in the car.  With the Nuvi [...]

2009 Road Trip – Savannah, GA

The first stop on our southeast road tour was Savannah, GA.  I've always wanted to check it out, and it seemed like a perfect pit stop on what would be our nine day adventure.  The drive up went fairly quickly, although the "are we there yet?" comments did start about two hours in.  Fortunately, Luke had [...]