Author: Karie Herring

Karie Herring rambles of a former life in Phoenix, AZ while raising a teen and tween twins in their new home in Orlando, FL. She has been featured in AOL Money & Finance, Betty Confidential and Career School Now. She's a full-time technical writer, functional fitness athlete, overachieving wife and mom. She loves talking about maneuvering motherhood, womanhood, and her passion for essential oils and natural living.
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7 Ways To Get Your Legs Ready For Summer

7 Ways To Get Your Legs Ready For Summer

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What you need to know about family travel packages

Time off is incredibly important; not only does mental health stand to benefit, but studies suggest it also results in increased productivity. Perhaps you’ve worked hard and waited a long time to be able to take a vacation with your family and the opportunity has finally arrived. While the urge to take vacation as soon as possible without weighing family travel options can be tempting, due diligence can be greatly rewarding. Continue reading “What you need to know about family travel packages”

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DesignEvo – Create Logos for Free

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My dear friend Joie and I have been working together for the last four years. She and I have known one another for the last decade, and this past year we thought high time we created something of a logo for our collaboration. We have been juggling ideas of outsourcing a logo with services like Fiverr. We even contemplated free logos by doing it ourselves in applications like Paint or GIMP. Each time, we were just missing something that made it a truly professional logo, we were in need of a free logo creation application.

One day we happened to receive an email from a representative sharing about an online application for logos. The free logos application allows you to create a logo with thousands of design templates, various fonts and some cool icons. Continue reading “DesignEvo – Create Logos for Free”

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e Parenting

Having children and raising children is such an evolutionary, day-by-day event. I always think of the quote by Mike Tyson in relation to having children; “everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face.” Think about it. We all have some set of ideals on how we should parent or raise children. Telling ourselves with our spouses, “I will raise my kids like this,””I will not raise my kids the way my parents did,” so on and so forth. Then life really throws you a curve ball of reality which causes your axis to shift from what you planned, to what do you plan to do now. Continue reading “e Parenting”

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The Crayola Experience Orlando

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Moving to Orlando has been such a treat! Not that we did not have an abundance of awesome visits, trips, and experiences living in Arizona the past 14 years, but Florida has so much to offer our family. The twins celebrate a decade of life this year and we have bounced around ideas of what to do for their birthday besides the obvious of Disney. My dear daughter has been begging for The Crayola Crayola experience orlando, orlando travel, kids travel orlando, family travel orlando, crayola Experience here in Orlando. Continue reading “The Crayola Experience Orlando”

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Celebrate the Holidays with Eagle Brand Milk

Have you been on Facebook and those wonderful memories pop up to show you years past? I love those because I can see when my kids were just a wee bit younger and all the heartwarming activities we shared. Now they are tweens and a teen so I rarely see them anymore as they are out and about. This year my dear daughter wanted to definitely partake in the holiday baking. I was so pumped to share the magic of holiday baking with her. We were excited to celebrate the holidays with Eagle Brand Milk as the main ingredient in all these sweet treats. Continue reading “Celebrate the Holidays with Eagle Brand Milk”

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Love and Meditate with Crafting Gratitude

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ABOUT CRAFTING GRATITUDE

In CRAFTING GRATITUDE, Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon believes that crafting for us and those we love can be used as a meditative practice to appreciate the incredible, overflowing richness of life. Each meditative craft, from novice to expert, is infused with stories like:

  • How Gratitude Bundles can represent prosperity and physical health
  • Spirit Houses from Southeast Asia can be a symbol of a happy home
  • A Values Bracelet can help you reinforce your best professional traits
  • Flower Mandalas can be an affirmation of nature, etc.

Continue reading “Love and Meditate with Crafting Gratitude”