Family Road Trip to Dallas

Originally published 3/22/18 on BritneyCrosson.com.

I used to watch Spring Break shows on MTV.  You know, the ones where they had a big stage set up on a beach somewhere with hundreds of young people in the crowd screaming and cheering and waiting for their big moment to get on stage and play a game that surely involved swimsuits and whipped cream?  Yeah, those.  Loved ’em.  Do they still have shows like that?

Fast forward to 2018 where I’m a married mother of two.  Neither swimsuits nor whipped cream are a big part of my life.  And I certainly don’t just sit around and watch MTV for 5 days straight.  But I did still manage to squeeze in some spring break fun, even if it was pretty tame and rated G (mayyyybe PG, in bits).

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24 Hours in Austin

Originally published July 20, 2017 on BritneyCrosson.com

I love a getaway, even a short one.  That’s why when my husband and I had an opportunity to have a quick overnight without the kiddos recently, we took it.  So we set out on the 3-hour car ride from Houston to Austin on a Sunday morning, looking forward to green rolling hills, good food and less humidity.  Here’s what we squeezed into just 24 hours in Texas’ Capitol City.

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