my city life

with Molly Buchanan

A few things we should establish: I love birthdays.I love to eat.I love sweets. You may remember that, back in January, my husband and I celebrated his birthday by visiting nine different BBQ restaurants in one day. And if not, you can read all about it in this article. So it was only fair that when my birthday hit the calendar, we celebrate with the most appropriate version for my personal palate: A Dessert Crawl. The concept seems pretty straightforward, but it must be said, the...

Something we need to get out of the way right up front--I love birthdays. I love to celebrate and make people feel special on their day. Especially the people that I love and are closest to me. If you think about it, it's the only day in an entire year that belongs to YOU, so it should be celebrated. And I'm a little extra, so I tend to go overboard. Over the past few years, I have shifted my celebrations from things to experiences, so our birthday celebrations have turned into vacations and...

While the Questions feature in your Instagram Stories is typically a fun option to help you plan some one-on-one time with BAE, sometimes you can't quite narrow down the suggestions that come sliding into your DMs.Enter the Progressive Date Night.The Progressive Date Night is the perfect way to try multiple spots in one night without spending too much extra time or money.The formula is simple:Stop 1: Cocktails and/or an appetizerStop 2: DinnerStop 3: Dessert and/or a NightcapAnd there's no...

My husband and I moved to Kansas City in the absolute deadest of Winter 2011. Not an exaggeration, I think there was a significant amount of snow on the ground for the first six months that we lived in KC. Ah memories of my car getting stuck in the snow and having to walk uphill in heels to get home, of warm clothes being packed in boxes and having to dig through them every morning, of moving into our home as snowflakes fell from the sky. What a joy.However, a warm spot in an otherwise very cold...