Yes, you heard me, the holidays are just around the corner.   Halloween. Thanksgiving.  Christmas.  New Year’s Eve.   They are coming quick, so let’s get the ball rolling and  pretend that we have it all together knock the socks off those guests of ours!   Kick off the month with a HUGE Halloween Spooktacular [...]

One of the things that I love the most about my job at Get Away Today is that I am always learning something new – whether it’s a new skill like photo editing or attending a training session about one of my favorite destinations. Ultimately, I think that travel is the best way to learn [...]

Hi, my name is Kelly and I write Dixie Dollar Deals, a website on how to save on dining, entertainment and all kinds of local deals in Utah’s Dixie! I love to save BIG anyway that I can, whatever I am shopping for. Today I’m excited to tell you about all the ways that YOU can [...]

  When my daughter was shopping for dorm room “furnishings,” she fell in love with a waterfall-ruffled duvet that she couldn’t afford from a popular “urban” store. (there is beauty all around, when they use their own money) She considered buying it for about a second, but read the reviews on the product and decided [...]

  First of all… who is loving these fabulous ladies behind Smitten By?!  I am always anxious to see what new fabulous things they are working on or have up their sleeves.  You ladies are amazing!  I SO appreciate them letting me share a special part of my life now and a small part of [...]

My name is Sarah. I’m married and we have four young children.  I have been a nurse for 11 years, so I am medically minded and thankful for the power of technology in medicine.  I am also a firm believer that we were given this earth for our benefit and that there are powerful agents [...]

Guest post by Tiffany Rudd and Deborah Pace Rowley   No, the blank does not stand for @*#@!! or #@&*%^!! Even if we are sometimes tempted to swear when we think of learning, school, and homework in the same sentence with our kids. The blank in the sentence above needs a preposition. More specifically, it [...]

Hello . . . . My name is Melinda . . . . And I am a perfectionist.   I have always been a perfectionist, as far as I know.   I will always be one . . . to some degree.   I don’t do everything I want to do — because I’m afraid [...]

“The greatest lesson you can learn is to know yourselves.”                       (Brigham Young)   This freaks me a out a bit. Not consciously but it must unconsciously because I always find some way to avoid spending “cozy up” time with myself. Oh don’t get me [...]

Congratulations! You are logged on to Smittenby and reading this post which means that you are doing something right this moment to learn something new! You might want to start noticing how many times a day you are learning and trying new things…these moments occur a lot more often than you may think. Each moment [...]