I have finally created a Blogroll!!! I have so many blogs that I love to read but just haven’t gotten around to creating the blogroll. I had wanted to wait until I updated my blog look but have decided that isn’t going to happen anytime soon! So for Travel Blogger Tuesday this week, I give you my Blogroll! Please ignore the formatting of parts of my list. I can’t figure out what is going on (other than I used a table to alphabetize it) and I am too tired to continue trying to figure it out!
Let me know if I left you off! This is definitely a work in progress!
Today I am dreaming of the Type-A Mom Conference, a blogging conference where men and women join together to learn more about the business of blogging and all that goes into it. This will be my first conference and I am very excited to attend. It is a smaller conference than some of the others available so I think it will be a good place to start. I am hoping to expand this blog a bit and even more so with my Pensacola with Kids blog. I am excited about all of the things that I will learn. I am most looking forward to meeting some of the amazing men and women who I look up to in the blogging world.
I am also thrilled that this conference is held in Asheville, North Carolina. We spent a long weekend in Asheville about 6 years ago. It was the last glorious weekend that my husband and I spent together on our very own. About a month later we discovered that we were going to be parents! 
We have fond memories of hiking Whiteside Mountain, exploring the many waterfalls, and sampling the wine at the Biltmore.
For now, Type-A Mom will be the blogging conference I am dreaming of. I had hoped to attend TBEX and Blogher as well, but they are off the table due to the timing and the fact that we have had a transmission blow up in a less than 3yo car, a water heater die a slow painful death, and a significant shortage in our escrow account all in the same month. YUCK! I am also looking into attending the The Travel Bloggers Show and The Trade Show in Orlando two weeks before Type-A Mom if it works out. The registration is cheap (only $25!) and it is less than a day to drive to Orlando from my house.
Are you attending a conference in the near future? Which one? Why did you pick it?
This post is part of Monday Dreaming with Mara at Mother of all Trips. Stop by to see what others are dreaming of today!
Some of my fondest memories of traveling with my children are from when we came across a park or a large patch of grass where they could run around and just be exactly who they are…kids. No one telling them to keep their hands to themselves. No one telling them to use their inside voices. Some of my favorite memories: running through the grass and gravel walks at Schloss Hellbrun in Salzburg; Big S learning to crawl in the ruins at Trier, Germany; sliding through the snow and ice in the Olympic ski jump area in Garmisch, Germany; skipping around the giant cow at the Braselton Mayfield Dairy.
When we were in Suffolk, Virginia during the month of February, we were trapped in the house for a few days by sleet and snow. Because the area doesn’t get much snow as a general rule, everything pretty much shut down. Once the weather cleared, we went exploring and found a park that my sister often talked about.
Sleepy Hole is a gem! We ran around for hours until our noses were pink and we could barely feel our fingers and toes. We explored the nature trails, played on the park and ran around until we were laughing so hard we couldn’t stand any longer. Afterwards, we went home and made hot chocolate. We collapsed in exhaustion and giggled about how much fun we had.
How can you not smile when you see joy like this?
For an added Friday photo, I had to share this picture. Little S had the worst static electricity the entire time we were in Virginia. Her hair was always standing on end! It was hilarious!
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