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Welcome to this week’s edition of Aloha Friday hosted by An Island Life. In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is a day to take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So on Fridays we take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, we ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response. Visit the Island Life Blog for more Aloha Friday Questions I’m so excited that Princess is finally 3 years old because now she can start dance lessons. She loves dancing and I hope she’ll follow the instructor’s dance moves. She’s told me she doesn’t need lessons so we’ll have to see how it goes. I enrolled her in a Jazz dance class for preschoolers. My Question What activities have you signed up your kids... [Read more of this review]

My three year old girl, “Princess”, is generally well behaved but has a few tricks up her sleeve. The other day I noticed her sitting in the pantry, I looked in but she didn’t seem to be doing anything. A little while later she went back in there and again I couldn’t see anything she was eating but thought I should investigate further. After some searching I found a hidden juice box that I almost missed because she had stored it behind some boxes. We then had a little talk about asking mommy’s permission. While one juice box isn’t a big deal there are things she shouldn’t be eating and if she hides more stuff from me it could be dangerous. Sometimes when I’ll tell her not to do something she tries... [Read more of this review]

My sneaky little three year old who is so cute I can’t stay mad at her for long  Read More →

Journey to a Beach Ready Body

I’d like to lie and say I’ve been exercising and eating great while preparing for Mexico but that’s not true. I haven’t been exercising at all or even eating great. I’ve been busy moving and it’s been deathly hot outside so exercise has been moved to the back burner. I went and bought a bikini for the beach today... [Read more of this review]

My first week of my attempt to get in shape for the beach went ok. I almost met my original goal of running 5k 4 times a week without stopping. What I actually did was Sunday- Ran 5k in 35 minutes before church in the morning. It was so nice to run without the jogging stroller and I only stopped for a minute Tuesday- Ran 5k again in 32 minutes Wednesday... [Read more of this review]