by Meredith Rabe

***Yay! We’ve announced Isaac! This is the start to his  birth story. And what a better place to start then with they story of how he got his name.

Several years that now feels like lifetimes ago, when we first began to battle the infertile monster...READ MORE

by Meredith Rabe

Tucked in away off the corner of Sheridan and Glen, with in spitting distance of the Spotted Cow, stands a small red barn. And inside that teeny little red barn that reminds me of a childhood toy, lives a dive bar. A dive bar with an open mic night - two of my favorite things- cheap beer mixed with the off key wails of those trying sing and the sweet song of when someone actually steps on... READ MORE

by Meredith Breedwell Rabe
Lady Antebellum Concert Opens Tour in Peoria  

Hi y'all! Well on Saturday, Jan 10, 2014 I traded in my lovely cowboy boots for wellies (stupid snow)  with the hubs, who took me, wait for it... READ MORE

by Meredith Breedwell Rabe 

'Tis the season for cozying up in dimly lit bars, Cabernet in hand, and listening to someone’s voice that is just as smooth as the California grapes you are sipping. And that’s just what I did when the hubs and I enjoyed a night out on the... READ MORE

by Meredith Breedwell Rabe

The older I get the more Saturday nights have become a night of pj’s and merlot. But there’s one particular local band that will make me trade in my cozy pj’s for my dazzling party pants any day. And that band is... READ MORE

by Meredith Breedwell Rabe 

October is the month of spooks running a muck, whether dressed in their Halloween best trick or treating through the streets of the neighborhood or roaming through the halls at the... READ MORE