Out of isolation and into beautiful Savannah, Georgia

Posted on May 29, 2020 by Victoria Dunmire

After more than two months of quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were really missing our families. Everything now seems to have great risk but in actuality everything was already a risk. We believe that this virus is not going away, even with a vaccine. As time passes, more treatments are available, too. For us, it’s about finding ways to live with the virus that provide us some safety to mitigate the risk. We continue to limit our trips out and are glad to see businesses reopening in Georgia this month. We decided to plan a trip to Savannah over Memorial Day weekend, and when I saw how cheap some of the huge mansions were to rent, we decided to invite both of our parents. Continue reading →

Glorious Gibbs Gardens in the Spring

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Victoria Dunmire

I’ve posted so many photos of our visits to Gibbs Gardens on my social media but not here on my blog. Time to change that. Gibbs Gardens has become a favorite day trip of ours and we have season passes. It’s an hour drive north of Atlanta in Ball Ground, Georgia and is a private garden of stunning beauty with blooms all year round. Continue reading →

Fun times in New Haven, Connecticut

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Victoria Dunmire

For Christmas 2019, Sean got me (well, planned for me) a weekend in New Haven, CT to visit our friends Beth and JR. Sean had gotten to see them on a work trip he’d had up there but I had yet to visit them after their move up north in October 2018. We planned the trip for the first weekend in March, 2020. I was hoping for snow! Continue reading →

Easy Szechuan Shrimp Recipe

Posted on February 1, 2020 by Victoria Dunmire

Quick yet satisfying meals are always popular but they’re even more so in our house with a toddler running around. This simple and fast Szechuan Shrimp has been in Sean’s family’s repertoires for years. He ate it a ton growing up and made it for us the other night. It was delicious! Get the recipe. Continue reading →

The Top 13 Things I Ate in 2019

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Victoria Dunmire

This is my third year doing a post about my best eats of the year and while it’s nowhere near as exotic as that first year (India, Japan, Cuba, Miami….), I’ve had plenty of intra-country travel and wonderful Atlanta dining experiences to write about for 2019. Vegetarian, Thai, Venezuelan, Japanese…it’s been a delicious year. Having a baby has not meant I have to give up one of my favorite hobbies and I’m both thankful and proud. Continue reading →

New Bites: Redbird

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Victoria Dunmire

Sean and I had a wonderful dinner and date night earlier this fall at Redbird, Zeb Stevenson’s new restaurant on the Westside in the old Bacchanalia space. We sat the kitchen bar and had a nice view of the entire restaurant and the flurry of cooking and plating activity. Continue reading →

The Big Thirty-Five Birthday Celebrations

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Victoria Dunmire

It was a big birthday for me! As the card says – 21 again! Haha. It kicked off the day before my birthday and went a full week and a half with so, so many lovely things. My husband has pretty much mastered gift giving for me. Everything was so thoughtful, well-planned and perfectly executed. I’ve got really great memories from this birthday and wanted to capture it with a blog post. 🙂 Continue reading →

The Long Road Home

Posted on November 3, 2019 by Victoria Dunmire

The end of an era. My mom and Ron are moving to the Outer Banks and have put my childhood home up for sale. To have one last stay in the house and to see my friend Stacey and her family visiting from Alaska, we planned a quick trip to Ohio. So many memories and I left feeling like I didn’t have enough time to revisit many beloved places or see many old friends. Such is life. But everything we did do was incredibly special – starting with Harrison’s FIRST airplane ride. Continue reading →