If you’ve read my previous blog, 3 Vacations You Didn’t Know You Needed, then you know a family vacation is 1 of the 3 vacations I think everyone should take at least once of year. So, to celebrate the 4th of July this year, our family took a trip to the Concrete jungle where dreams …
3 Vacations Everyone Should Take
When was your last vacation? If you had to think about this question, then you’re probably overdue for one. As I start to prepare for our next adventure, it dawned on me that there are three vacations everyone should be taking once a year… Family Vacation “When you travel with your children, you’re giving them …
I Got the Keys – 4 Keys to Success
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” -Eleanor Roosevelt If you have been following me from the beginning, I’m sure you can agree we’ve come a long way from the orange website and aqua color font. What started as a way to document my own travels, 4 years later, …
5 Love Languages Expressed Through Travel
Research has found that there are 5 ways to receive and express love. We know them as the “5 love languages.” If you’re not familiar with them, they are: quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, physical touch, and words of affirmation. We can all relate to them, but there’s usually one or two that …
Relax, Relate, & Release: Nappy Kitchen Peace Retreat
When’s the last time you sat down to relax, relate, and release?? As a wife, a mother, and an entrepreneur that can be hard to do. It’s even harder to do during a pandemic, but when things get too crazy one MUST find a way to relax, relate, and release. Your mental is counting on …
How To LIVE Debt Free: 3 Methods To Eliminate Debt
In order for us to Dream. Travel. Live. Repeat… without any issues, sometimes we need to take a journey through our finances. If you’ve read how debt destroys dreams, then I don’t have to remind you the type of hold it can have over your life. Not to mention the amount of stress it brings …
A Trip to the Whitney Plantation: Stepping Back in Time
I heard about the Whitney Plantation the first time the family and I visited New Orleans, NOLA – A Family Guide . We wanted to see and do everything when we arrived, but if you’ve ever been, you know that’s impossible. So unfortunately, we didn’t get to make it. I promised myself though, the next …
“Stocked w/ Essentials” – Lessons for New Investors
In 2018, my husband and I visited Amsterdam for Operation 31 Euro (My 31st Anniversary aka Bday). While waiting on our hotel room, we met a guy from Tennessee, who ironically gave us a small lesson in the stock market. This conversation turned out to be a game changer. I can remember returning home, immediately …
Mind Travel- 10 Quotes to Refill Your Wanderlust Blues
Okay… so… I think I speak for us all when I say “I can’t believe we’re here.” I mean seriously, just 2 months ago I was celebrating my 2nd year in business, on a cruise I hosted in the Bahamas. Now I’m adjusting to what I feel may be our “new” normal due to COVID-19. …
Year 7: Tokyo, Japan – A Guide for 1st Time Visitors
Juggling jobs, children, and whatever else life throws at a marriage… can be tough. One of the ways my husband and I reconnect is through Travel. Studies have shown couples who travel together have a better sex life and more romance. So yea we travel lol. Last year for our 7th anniversary we decided to …