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Dollywood Flower and Food Festival

By on May 4, 2021
Everything You Need to Know About the Dollywood Flower and Food Festival | sunshineandholly.com | #dollywood | #flowerandfood

Everything You Need to Know About the Dollywood Flower and Food Festival

Last week, Dollywood Parks and Resorts hosted a bunch of influencers for the Dollywood Flower and Food Festival. I was honored to be invited and super excited to check out everything the festival has to offer. From delicious food, to fragrant flowers, to toe-tapping music, there was something exciting around every corner.

Everything You Need to Know About the Dollywood Flower and Food Festival | sunshineandholly.com | #dollywood | #flowerandfood

Here’s everything you need to know about the Dollywood Flower and Food Festival so you can plan your own family getaway to Dollywood!

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Safety Tips for Road Trips with Children

By on April 20, 2021
Safety Tips for Road Trips with Children | sunshineandholly.com | family vacation

My family loves to travel. When I was young, my mom and dad were always tossing a bag into the car and taking me on quick weekend adventures. I’m sure that’s where my love for traveling started! Now that I’m a mom and I’m in charge of all the travel planning, I’ve realized how hard it is to travel with children. Gone are the days of relaxing vacations with just my husband. Traveling with children is really just “parenting in a different location.” But even through all of the challenges, it’s worth it to me. I love experiencing things through my children’s eyes and making memories with my family. When we travel, I’m always a little anxious and worried about safety. We typically drive to our destination, and I’ve gathered a few safety tips for road trips with children that I wanted to share.

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Easy Valentine’s Day Candy Charcuterie Board

By on January 29, 2021
Easy Valentine's Day Candy Charcuterie Board | sunshineandholly.com

Since we’re stuck at home this year, I wanted to do something special for my family for Valentine’s Day. I keep seeing yummy candy boards all over Pinterest, so I decided to try to make us an easy Valentine’s Day candy charcuterie board to share. Plus we just got a brand new cheese board and I’ve been taking advantage of any excuse to use it lately. My kids are all about make-your-own and choose-your-own type of meals (taco night/make your own pizza night/etc). And I knew if I pulled out a huge charcuterie board full of candy and sweets – they were going to flip! Here’s how I made it:

Easy Valentine’s Day Candy Charcuterie Board

First I browsed Target.com to see all of the different types of Valentine’s Day candy and sweets they had available. I tried to keep the colors simple (reds and pinks) and also tried to pick things with different shapes and sizes. And I couldn’t resist adding a cute heart table runner to my cart!

Easy Valentine's Day Candy Charcuterie Board | sunshineandholly.com

I placed a drive-up order and headed over to Target to pick up our goodies. Later that afternoon while the kids were playing outside, I got out all the things I had bought. Starting with the larger items, I placed things around the board, moving them around until I was happy with how it looked. Then I threw a clean dish towel over the whole thing and waited to surprise the kids after dinner! Unfortunately, Maddie (my sneaky child) ended up peaking under the towel while I was cooking. Such a stinker! So I didn’t get to surprise the kids like I wanted to, but they still loved it!

Easy Valentine's Day Candy Charcuterie Board | sunshineandholly.com

 

 

Here’s a link to our charcuterie board. It’s amazing and I’m so glad we bought it!

How is your family celebrating Valentine’s Day this year?

Pin it!

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A Few Tips for the First Few Days of Virtual Learning

By on August 24, 2020
A Few Tips for the First Few Days of Virtual Learning | sunshineandholly.com | distance learning

We just finished up day 4 of virtual learning and it sure has been a rollercoaster of emotions for all of us! Compared to what we did in the Spring, there’s a lot more work, more meetings, and more technology to learn. But getting the schedule down has for sure been the most difficult part of all of this for me. Having two kids in different grades with different teachers and completely different schedules had me feeling completely overwhelmed and frustrated! But after a few days, we seem to be getting the hang of things. And today went pretty smoothly! I wanted to share a few tips so that hopefully your first few days will go better than ours did.

A Few Tips for the First Few Days of Virtual Learning

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What We’re Doing to Get Ready for Virtual Learning (And a FREE Affirmations Printable)

By on August 13, 2020
What We're Doing to Get Ready for Virtual Learning (And a FREE Affirmations Printable) | for kids | homeschool | distance learning

What We’re Doing to Get Ready for Virtual Learning

Here we go again! Another semester of virtual learning. We’ve got this!

I’m hoping it will go much smoother this time since everyone has had more time to prepare. But I won’t lie – the schedule the school has proposed is very overwhelming! If I wasn’t worried about my children losing their spot at our charter school, I would probably just pull them and homeschool until they can go back. I feel like virtual learning is homeschooling without all the benefits of homeschooling (like controlling the content and schedule). But it’s fine. It’s all fine. We’re going to make it work!

Here’s a list of what we’re doing to get ready for virtual learning:

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