adios amigas y amigos!

Happy Monday you guys!  I'll be hopping on a plane to head south of the border late tomorrow night (technically very early Wednesday morning for normal people who, unlike me, don't go to bed at 3 AM every night) with my husband for a festival his band puts on there.  The weather forecast is calling for rain almost the entire time we're in Mexico, but I don't care, because it's going to be 80 degrees!  80 degrees!  It's 32 in Chicago!  Hallelujah!

I'll miss you guys while I'm gone, but I have some amazing blog pals who are going to be taking over in my absence and sharing all kinds of great things with you.  My sister and Bubby and Bean's resident food editor, Morgan, has kindly offered to share her special homemade doggy treat recipe with you guys tomorrow so that I can take the day to get my businesses in order and pull myself together before I leave.  (I have to give a quick shout-out to my rockstar employee Kari for holding down the fort while I'm gone!  Thank you Kari!)  Starting Wednesday, the guest blogger hijack will begin.  Make sure you stop back by (and show them some comment love!), because their posts are pretty incredible. There's everything from a cool vacation wish list to a rad post about road tripping to a post with insider secrets on how to boost your business, and more!  And our January featured sponsor will also be doing a guest post, with some really beneficial tips for those of you with an interest in photography.  I almost feel a little sad to be leaving because I'll be missing out on such an awesome week at Bubby and Bean!

I have one more piece of good news too.  On Wednesday, our wedding is going to be featured on my absolute FAVORITE wedding website.  I may or may not have screamed when I got the email from them saying that they wanted to write about it.  I can't share any more details quite yet, but I'm going to make sure I find a way to get online in Mexico this week so I can do a quick post about it once it's live.  I'll also do my best to post some photos to my Instagram (@bubbyandbean), and do a Twitter update or two while I'm away.  It's been a long, long time since I've had any kind of break from work though, so I'm going to try to cut myself off from technology as much as possible.  Last year I had quite a bit of trouble getting the internet to work down there, and that might just be a good thing. :)

I'll be back in action on January 31st, hopefully with all kinds of fun pictures and stories to share.  Have a wonderful week!

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