Now that we have our game room on the inside of the house done and our patio as a nice outdoor room, it’s time to focus on creating a space in the backyard for the kids. Even though our youngest is still too little to enjoy an outdoor Play Gym, we wanted a space and equipment that could grow with all of them and last a long time. Our first step was to head over to Family Leisure (I work there) and check out the different kinds of equipment and options they had.
There were several...
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I’m really looking forward to our playgroup’s upcoming trip to the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere. I remember when I first moved to this area, long before I had kids, the first Nashville Zoo was located out in Joelton. From talking with my friends who had kids at the time, it was a really long drive and they longed for something closer to town that their families could enjoy on a more regular basis. I guess the zoo planning people listened, and in a joint venture between the...
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I’m so excited! My husband and I and our best friends are headed out to the Loveless Café tonight to enjoy a great dinner and some amazing country music at the Loveless Barn. Every week the Loveless Barn features a live radio broadcast called Music City Roots. I’ve wanted to go for a while now, but trying to work something like this around our busy schedules in the middle of the week has been a challenge. But we finally figured out a night that would work for all of us and...
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Middle Tennessee has played a big role in the time-honored tradition of wine making. The wine made in and around our area rivals some of the finest in the world. My husband and I have been thinking for a while now about installing a wine cabinet in our game room so we can show off local wines to friends and family from out of town. An antique design would look great on the wall next to the two café tables beside the pool table, and it would give us a place to entertain our friends...
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I love everything about books! How they smell, how they feel in your hands, the beauty of book-jacket artwork and the thrill of placing new books next to old friends on my home library shelves. My friends and I started a book club a few years ago. We meet at a local coffee shop once a month on Thursday mornings while our kids are in preschool. It’s a great time to catch up with each other and share ideas and thoughts about the book we are reading. So, when I heard about a new...
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Like in the rest of the country, poker is all the rage around Nashville, especially Texas Hold‘em. My husband and I thought it would be fun to host a poker night in our newly-furnished game room. I don’t know much about the poker end of it, so I’m leaving most of the poker supplies to him. Since we want to have 10 people playing, he’s decided to use our new pool table so we can all fit around it comfortably.
I found a great Texas Hold‘em pool table cover...
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I have to admit that I’ve never been a gardener, but with our new patio design, I want to get a head start on planning the surrounding flowerbeds before it’s time to plant. Nashville gardeners will tell you that it’s tricky finding plants that do well in our extreme summer heat, and many yards just opt for grass, some well placed rocks and mulch. But I want more than that for our outdoor living space, and to get it right, I’ll need some help and some ideas. Some of...
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Franklin is a small town about fifteen minutes southwest of Nashville, and it’s one of my favorite places to meet friends for lunch and go antique shopping. The Factory in Franklin is a place we can do it all. The Factory is a shopping and dining experience like no other in the Nashville area. It’s a collection of old and new things in a 12-building complex and it’s just six blocks away from downtown Franklin.
I like to start my day at The Factory by meeting my friends...
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My friends and I are always looking for interesting things to do with our kids, and living in Nashville gives us lots of great options. But this time of year the weather is still a little unpredictable, so finding indoor activities guarantees a great day for everyone. We try to do a monthly activity for our playgroup, and since this month is my turn, I’m choosing the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in downtown! What kids don’t love drawing and painting, and what better place to...
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