Healthy Holiday Desserts The holidays aren’t really the holidays without scrumptious desserts, luscious cookies and mouthwatering cakes and pies. You can have your cake and eat it too with these waist watcher desserts. Fresh Fruit Wreaths Low in calories and full of fiber and vitamins, fresh fruit is perfect for dessert. Up the presentation by arranging the fruit in a … [Read more...]
First Time Cruisers: Where are we headed?
We Booked Our First Cruise! After researching for only 2 days last month, we went ahead and booked our very first cruise on Carnival. We will be leaving the Port of Miami and heading on a 4 Day Western Caribbean Cozumel Plus cruise NEXT WEEK. We were looking for a shorter time frame for our 1st cruise so thought 4 days on the Carnival Victory sounded perfect. I'll share my … [Read more...]
Do You Love Peanut Butter as Much as I do? Open up!
Anyone who knows me, knows that I LOVE peanut butter so I thought I would do a fun peanut butter recipe roundup before the holiday's. For you chocolate and peanut butter lovers, this one's for you. You can thank me later. Here's to some simple baking inspiration for the holiday season! If you haven't finished coming up with your Thanksgiving dessert menu, these ideas would … [Read more...]
Are You Leaving Your Vacation Days on the Table? It’s About Time You Use Them Up!
If you work for the man and are not using up your vacation days, you should rethink that. Kev has a ton of vacation days left this year and probably won't have a chance to use them all up. He decided we should take another vacation this year (who am I to argue with THAT?) so we decided to book a cruise for him to use up more vacation days. But it's hard for him (or I) to really … [Read more...]
How Does Exercise Help Beat Stress? Get Yourself Moving and Find Out!
How Does Exercise Help Beat Stress? Before we talk about exercise for stress relief, let’s begin by talking about what types of things cause stress. There are many things that can cause stress. Anything from work to family situations and beyond. For example working long hours, being unhappy in your current position and losing a job can cause stress. The death of someone in … [Read more...]