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Girls Weekend 2021 | Food

Girls Weekend 2021: Minneapolis

Girls Weekend has been a longstanding tradition that started with my cousin and I getting together for one day to do our Christmas shopping the first Saturday of November. It’s morphed into an overnight, then two overnights, then (why the heck not?) three overnights. Because my goodness, the important women in my life need some […] Read more…

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Monday Musings

Well hello Monday, we meet again.  Except this Monday is really my Tuesday – so it’s the best kind of Monday! I have Friday off and this weekend is my annual Girls Weekend extravaganza! This year we are flying to Chicago to spend some time exploring Michigan Avenue (okay – shopping) and catching up on […] Read more…

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Weekend Details

Happy weekend, friends! Saturday night around here has been pretty quiet … Teacher Man has a bad cold so he’s sleeping on the couch and Joe is working on some sort of Wii U game in the basement. As for me, I decided this would give me a few minutes to crank out a blog […] Read more…

Girls Weekend 2016 | Ideas in the Twin Cities via MyOtherMoreExcitingSelf.com #girlsweekend #mommybreak

Girls Weekend 2016

Another fabulous Girls Weekend is in the books. How did that happen? We spend weeks planning and anticipating, it’s all over in a heartbeat, and now we start the process all over again for 2017. 🙂  This year we made downtown Saint Paul our home base (love the Embassy Suites!) and branched out from there. […] Read more…

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Weekend Snaps | Girls Weekend in Red Wing

If you follow my blog (and my Facebook page), then you probably couldn’t miss the fact that it was Girls Weekend 2015! I met up with my sister, sister-in-law, cousin and mom and we all descended upon picturesque Red Wing, Minnesota for our annual litany of shopping, wine drinking, eating, and catching up on life. Which […] Read more…

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Cocktail Time: Cranberry Cosmopolitans

My signature cocktail is a cranberry cosmopolitan. As girly as it gets. And it wouldn’t be a girls weekend without one – or, ahem, two. A couple of weeks ago, my annual girls weekend commenced with my sister, sister-in-law and cousin. Instead of staying at a hotel somewhere (which, don’t get me wrong, is always […] Read more…

Girls Weekend 2013 | Twin Cities

I feel like I am way too tired to write coherently tonight, but I want to share a few photos from my completely fabulous girls’ weekend. I’ve been getting together with my cousin, Christine, every November for the past 15 years – she lives in Iowa and this is our one time each year that […] Read more…

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