If you are looking for a fun way to celebrate this year, Happy Hour at Home–Cinco de Mayo Style– is a great way to have all the fun right at home! I’m missing going out at the end of a busy work-week for a relaxing happy hour with my husband, co-workers, or friends. You guys, it’s the simple things like this that really get me–those little slivers of normalcy that made up the patterns of our lives. It seems like […]
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Happy Hour at Home is a regular occurrence at our place. On nights when we don’t have any kids here for dinner, we frequently elect to have something easy, rather than cook a full meal. Happy Hour Out and About Sometimes we choose to go out for happy hour. Last week, after rushing from work to a late afternoon appointment downtown, we decide to pop in to a local place, Republic on Grand, for happy hour. We enjoyed some cocktails, […]
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15 Fun Spring Finds for Your Home to usher in spring, both inside and out. Ideas for home decor, porch, and patio! You guys. I’m craving spring so badly. Here in Iowa, we’ve been getting teased with little tastes of warmer weather, only to be rudely reminded by Mother Nature that spring is not quite here yet. In fact, we have some snowflakes and “mixed precipitation” in the forecast still this week. :-( So, to soothe myself with thoughts of […]
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Do you have closet space in your home that is ineffective, underutilized, or just not working for you? I’m here today with a custom storage solution to help you maximize your storage space and finally get your closets under control. Wait until you see my new organized home office closet! This post is sponsored by Wood Closet Designs but all ideas and opinions are my own. I’m fortunate enough to have a dedicated workspace for my home office. It has […]
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An update to our home office, giving it a more feminine, modern farmhouse vibe.
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A romantic dinner for two at home is a fun way to celebrate a special occasion. My husband and I celebrated our anniversary this week. I wanted to do something to surprise him, because he always has sweet little surprises up his sleeve for me. 💕 For example, this is what I stepped out of the shower to on the morning of our anniversary. Since we still aren’t eating in restaurants due to the pandemic, I decided that a romantic […]
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The older I get, the more I realize that Mother’s Day can be bittersweet or even complicated. One one hand, I feel so blessed to be the mother of such amazing children. They have brought immeasurable amounts of joy to my life, and I am so proud of them. On the other hand, this is my third Mother’s Day without my own mom. They just don’t get any easier. It is a strange and empty feeling to see and hear […]
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The weather was so nice on Sunday! It felt like summer and I loved every minute of it! A local greenhouse right up the road from us finally opened up. They were previously only doing curbside pickup for plants, which I was grateful for, but now they’ve opened with some strict social-distancing guidelines. Most of their plants are outside, they had arrows marking all the paths as one-directional, and even moved their check-out stations outdoors. Plus, they weren’t overly crowded. […]
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This is my 3rd edition of “Cooking at Home”, but definitely not “week 3”. Time is starting to become irrelevant to me, and apparently one week equals 7.26 million years now. Don’t you agree? But, I am back today to give you another run down of what we’ve been preparing for meals around here. Since we’ve been cooking at home 95% of the time, that requires a lot of planning, and frankly, I’m starting to run out of ideas. I’ve […]
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YOU GUYS, we’re craving spring around here so much, that this past weekend, we cooked outside on the grill all three nights. This homemade pizza on the grill is just one of the delish dinners we’ve cooked outside recently. On Friday night, which was Valentine’s Day, we grilled some delicious, buttery Chilean Sea Bass. We went grocery shopping on Saturday, and my husband noticed that T-Bone steaks were on special for a great price, so of course he bought some, […]
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