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2025 Item Highlights

As 2025 comes to a close, I am reflecting on some highlights from this year. This final post in the series will focus on items, with activities, food & drinks, and media already posted. An E-Reader I’ve been a big audiobook listener…

2025 Media Highlights

As 2025 comes to a close, I am reflecting on some highlights from this year. This post will focus on media, with activities and food & drinks already posted and one more category to follow soon! Letters from an American I started listening…

2025 Food/Drink Highlights

As 2025 comes to a close, I am reflecting on some highlights from this year. This post will focus on food & drinks, with activities already posted and more categories to follow soon! Recipes on Our Website Chicken Sausage & Rice Skillet Sweet,…

2025 Activity Highlights

As 2025 comes to a close, I am reflecting on some highlights from this year. This post will focus on activities, with more categories to follow soon! 5-Year Journaling I started a five-year journal in January 2025. This type of…

You Should Try White Water Rafting

“Okay, we’ve got two rapids in a row up here,” explains our guide. He then calls out loudly, “Backward one!” Upon hearing this command, the other five of us on the raft lean back, plunge our paddles into the rocky…

How to Dress for Winter Sports

Last winter, I wrote about learning to enjoy winter in New Hampshire, citing winter sports as a key factor, and Hans is working through a series of posts introducing the basics of skiing (downhill & cross-country). His posts will tell you…

How I Threw a Frugal(ish) Bachelorette Party

Welcome to wedding season, everyone! If you’re like my poor friend, Jenni, and had a wedding planned for 2020, I imagine things didn’t look quite like how you imagined. This particular couple opted for a smaller-scale backyard wedding and postponed…

Cross-Country (Nordic) Skiing: Skate

Just the other week I wrote about Classic skiing, a discipline of winter sport under the “Nordic” umbrella. Hopefully you’ve given that article a read, but maybe you passed it over because you already know how to Classic ski –…

Cross-Country (Nordic) Skiing: Classic

Mikayla recently wrote about how she has learned to enjoy winter in New Hampshire, citing winter sports as a key factor. Winter can be a slog if you don’t have a means to enjoy its offerings. Getting out into the…