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FeaturedThe End of our Culinary Cooking Challenge
I can’t believe it. It’s over. Back in February my sister and I decided to go on a crazy culinary journey and now that journey for the timing being is at an end. I won’t do a recap of every week here as I did that at 20th week marker(read here) but I will go… Read more
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Texas Trip Part 2
And we are back for more fun down South! We left you in our last post with some very yummy bbq. Next day we took a day trip down to San Antonio to see the Alamo. This was arguably our favorite part of the trip. It was so beautiful and peaceful. I mean it was… Read more
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FeaturedTrip Review: Dallas, Fort Worth TX
This trip was amazing! The weather was beautiful the entire we were there. The food was amazing and of course we got to do all the things! Our trip included a visit to Fort Worth, Dallas, and San Antonio. We went to the Depository, the Dallas Science Museum, the Alamo, Fort Worth Zoo and Stockyards.… Read more
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Where have you been?
Did I drop off the face of the earth? I might as well have- I am so sorry I have been absent from the blog scene. My life went from on direction to another and another in a matter of weeks and I am still reeling. But this is my attempt to catch up and… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #26
Welcome back to the culinary cooking challenge! And this week we tackled Sleepy Hallow. Let’s get to it! I mean it’s creamy and fishy, so yeah it was amazing. Not the best clam chowder ever(that I got while visiting Door County, WI. read here) but still very good. And it was even better with these… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #25
And welcome back! Or at least welcome back for the next two weeks. After that Tay and I are off on vacation(more on that later) But for this week’s culinary challenge are word was picnic. So basically anything that could get packed in a picnic basket. Here we go! Not exactly the most healthy potato… Read more
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FeaturedDream Cast for a Sabrina Remake
I know, I know- Remakes are awful. But hear me out on this one. So let me first say I love this movie to obsession. I mean I have- An goldfish named George. Sabrina 1954 Because of this I was super hesitant to come up with a dreamcast. But once I got started I found… Read more
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Apple and Pork Festival
Happy fall! Yes I am still on that kick and will be till December(or just right after Thanksgiving) This weekend I made a much needed but quick visit down to my Mom and Dad’s. We relaxed by eating and watching old black and white movies; and going to the Apple and Pork Festival in Clinton,… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week 24
Oh man! I knew French cooking would be fantastic, but I didn’t realize how absolutely amazing it was going to be. Without further ado, here is French Week. Umm this is probably my favorite bread ever- it’s flaky, buttery crescent roll layers just got better and better as the days progressed. It tastes amazing with… Read more
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FeaturedVisiting An Apple Orchard
Nothing says fall like visiting a local apple orchard. Even if the Sunday afternoon you choose to go is the one Sunday in the whole month where it was 90 degrees… oh well we still pretended it was fall with hot apple cider and warm apple donuts. Oh how many apples!! Did you guys do… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #23
Welcome back my lovelies for another soaring week of food! We took the Highlands for our culinary inspiration and came up with some interesting success and surprising disappointments. These milky buns were truly delicious. Because if their soft taste I could easily see why they are favored by the Scott’s at breakfast. Though they’re good… Read more
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FeaturedHoliday in Door County
Happy Labor Day! (Or by the time you are reading this post-Labor Day) My sister and I had the day off, which since we both work for the same family does not happen often. And with adventure calling we headed north to Door County. Our main goal for the day was to explore Cave Point… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #22
Welcome back to ole blog. I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend and are ready for fall. I personally have been ready for the last month or so. But now I no longer look like a crazy person with her pumpkins out in August. Now I am perfectly normal again. (She said… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #21
Welcome back! Hope you guys are hungry this week, because Pizza week was a tremendous success. Everything was delicious and not one thing went sideways on me. (Lol) Umm so this bacon and egg Keto, Gluten free breakfast pizza was probably the most delicious thing ever! I would make this/eat this again in a heart… Read more
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Culinary Challenge Week #20
Welcome to a very special edition of the Culinary Cooking Challenge! Over twenty weeks ago(read here) my sister and I started on a grand adventure of cooking. And while we have missed a week here or there for various reasons for the most part we have stayed on task and created some amazing dishes! With… Read more
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FeaturedOconomowoc Arts Festival 2021
Last weekend was the 50th Annual Arts Festival in Oconomowoc, WI. and my first time visiting the event. Oh boy did we have a blast! Giving you some background; Oconomowoc is probably the cutest town in south eastern Wisconsin(in my personal opinion) Situated in the heart of lake country this classic American small town always… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #19
So first off I want to apologize that my regular content has been lacking this month. It has been a crazy couple of weeks and my hands are up in the air as to what will happen next as far as life goes. (Anyone’s guess at this point) But hopefully I can get my content… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #18
Oh my gosh we are two weeks away from the 20th week!!! We might have to do something special when we get there… Until then here(a day late) is a bunch of very delicious Hungarian food! This was probably my favorite thing of the week! Salted cucumbers covered in sour cream, chives, hot pepper and… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #17
So my week of “leftovers” (a.k.a. a week I wasn’t supposed to cook) turned into a very heavy baking week. Who am I kidding I am an obsessive baker and cook at this point. Above is a very yummy French toast bake I made. Mainly because we had a whole loaf of gluten free bread… Read more
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DIY Good Will Fall Wreath
Ah it’s getting to be that time… my absolute favorite time of the year… fall! With the return of chilly days, crisp smells and crunchy leaves comes the return of Hobby Lobby’s seemingly endless fall wreaths. All drool worthy and all horribly overpriced. Okay well maybe not all of them. Some are worth the buck.… Read more
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Culinary Week #16
So this past week was Tay’s 23rd Birthday! So we deviated slightly from our chosen path and I let her pick the food. It had its ups and downs. Here we go! You all might remember this amazing bread from our Harry Potter Week. This has been Tay’s favorite breast creation since the beginning of… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #15
Another week has passed and the votes are in… Iceland was a very interesting place for our palettes to visit. The word I kept coming back to describe their cuisine was earthy. And I mean that is the very best sense possible. It wasn’t overly spiced and yet it wasn’t ballad. It was hearty and… Read more
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FeaturedDevotional Art Journaling: Kids Addition
So last week I shared with you a growing new interest called Bible Art Journaling. This week I thought it would be cool to share with how you can use art journaling not only for yourself, but to help the kiddos pay attention and grasp what the Lord is saying through His precious Word too!… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #14
And welcome back! Last week(read here) Tay and I journeyed to a magical island(Greta Britain) and this week we continued that theme by island hopping to the Caribbean. Get ready for the tropics! First up is this island cabbage slaw, which though very good was not my favorite… yeah it was missing something. These were… Read more
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FeaturedBible Art Journaling
We’ll look at this I have another new hobby! When will I have the time? So a friend from my church Bible Art Journaling(and frankly her Bible is gorgeous!!!) And she introduced me to it and roped me into an art event my church is hosting next month. Yikes! I will be giving a 15… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #14
Hello, hello, hello! Who’s ready for a very magical round of cooking? (A very magically delicious week if you ask me) let’s jump to it! Broccoli, turkey bacon, raisins, feta cheese and sunflower seeds covered in nonfat Greek yogurt, olive oil and rosemary. Yummy!! Yummy!! Yummy!! So soft and sweet and buttery, loaded with bacon… Read more
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FeaturedNannying in the Summer
Welcome back to the ole blog! I cannot believe that this weekend is July 4th. It frankly doesn’t even seem possible. And since weather in Wisconsin has been the equivalent to the rainy season in the tropics it doesn’t exactly feel like summer. I realized I have never done a post dedicated just to nannyhood… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #12
Hello peeps and welcome back to culinary challenge!! (Cue upbeat theme song) So this past week as you will recall from last week’s post(read here) Tay was on vacation and my Mom came up for visit. So I had her pick a few recipes that she has seen me make(she’s a faithful subscriber to my… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #11
Hello my friends. Yes I know I am a week late(oops) but we really did do our culinary challenge BBQ! And here’s the proof. This was an interesting combination, but not our favorite and it didn’t keep very well. Still not awful. I mean it’s buttermilk bread so you can’t really go too wrong here.… Read more
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FeaturedThe Busy Business of Summer
How is everyone doing? Well summer is in full swing here now. This whole week has been upper 90’s in temps and the sun has been blazing down. Which has made swimming every day, all day an absolute necessity. With summer comes an extra sort of busyness. Every night this week I have had an… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Week #10
Well a day behind, but the week got away from me. And as you can tell I made a lot of food. This next week I’m gonna attempt to tone it down a little bit… Maybe… So just right off the bat the flavor and texture combination of Vietnamese food is super interesting. The mix… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Challenge Week #9
Happy Memorial Day everyone! Hope you are enjoying your long weekend. So this week’s word was Italian and because I went a little crazy with the crazy good cuisine let’s jump right into it. I mean just looking at it make me wants another bowl. Even Taylor, who does not like salads loved this one.… Read more
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Living in Trailer
No I didn’t move, get fired or in anyway change lifestyles; unless you call living in a small trailer on my boss’s lake house property for the next six months a change in lifestyle… Which maybe it is come to think of it. (Lol) Anyhoo yes I am officially trailer trash! My parents are so… Read more
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Update: Culinary Challenge
So there will be no culinary recap this week as we moved to lake house this past week and there was absolutely no time to cook. Be on the look out later this week for a post on the move. (Yay!) We are so happy to be back amongst the lake folk. Here is a… Read more
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Culinary Week #8
Can you believe we’ve been doing this for eight weeks now? Man it’s crazy! All the yummy things my sister and I have gotten try. We’re just getting slightly spoiled. (Here’s a link to our very first week, which will take through to the series) After missing last week due to traveling(see here) we were… Read more
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FeaturedTaking My Mom to Tampa
I’m finally on the move again. Traveling- ah how I have missed you! So every year my sister and I try to plan a fun get away for the two of us(though others have been dragged along with us) and this year was supposed to be a driving tour of Iceland. However due to COVID… Read more
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FeaturedMature Style Evolution
Well hello again… we keep meeting here a lot. (Wink, wink) welcome back guys to another post. We are again going down the fashion lane, because apparently my blog has zip structure and I write about whatever pops into my head. And yet we have such fun doing it! If you haven’t seen my other… Read more
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Culinary Week #7
Hello my lovelies! And welcome back to the cooking extravaganza that is my life. I think this past Thursday I just cooked the whole day and it was glorious! Probably becoming too obsessed… Or maybe it’s just because this past week our word was coffee and y’all know how I feel about coffee(and in case… Read more
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FeaturedApartment Tour 2021
For this post I decided to give you guys a brief tour of my apartment/suite in the basement of my employers’ house, where I have lived comfortably for the last… three and 1/2 years. Yikes time flies! I’ve never done a full tour so this should be fun. We’ll begin at the beginning… I know… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Week #6
It’s good to be back! After a week missed by sickness I was so ready to get back to cooking and baking(and thus eating really good food) It’s funny how accustomed you get to always having some homemade bread or baked good in the fruit basket(which occasionally houses fruit as well). Or some yummy leftovers… Read more
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Nothing To Say
So if you want just a random, rambling post about nothing in particular then keep reading, because this post is for you! I have a couple of actually interesting posts in process and will try to get those out in the next coming weeks. But this week has been a catch up week for me.… Read more
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FeaturedCulinary Week #5
Welcome back, welcome back. Who has been missing the culinary challenge? I have. I have missed the cooking and baking and trying new things(here’s a look back at our last post) And with this week’s challenge being Jane Austen we were in for some unique dishes. Here we go! While enjoying these elegant-ish meals my… Read more
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FeaturedFavorite Crafts for Kiddos
Hello all! I hope everyone had a fabulous Easter. It has turned out to be a very wet week here in Wisconsin, but I personally love the spring showers. One, because they mean green and growing things and additionally they remained me of fairy tales, an English countryside and simpler ways. Which as I find… Read more
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FeaturedThe Homeschooling Perspective
So I had an interesting conversation a couple of weeks ago from a mother, who was considering homeschooling and what that would look like for her family. When she found out I was homeschooled and am now helping to homeschool two first graders, she had many, many questions. I thought it would be fun to… Read more
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Culinary Week #4
Week #4 is in the books and I have to say I think this has been my favorite week yet! A lot of these recipes are actually ones I grew up on as my Mom(growing up in Southern Illinois) was constantly making. So yeah I think everything this week averaged above a 7 out of… Read more
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Spring Cardigan
Here is another spring look for y’all! I don’t know why(probably the changing of the seasons) but I have felt super inspired with fashion again. Yay! I’m not totally sold on the look below. Not sure all the pieces go together that way I envisioned, but maybe you guys have some suggestions. I don’t know.… Read more
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FeaturedOne Year Ago
Oh how many things have happened since this time last year. (Read last year’s post here) How many things have come to light since COVID intentionally peeked its ugly little head over the horizon. I think we can all agree that we were naive at first and now life has taken on that jaded “so… Read more
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FeaturedCuisine Challenge Week #3
Hello all! Hope you had an awesome week. So this week’s word was favorites and Tay and I decided to go easy on ourselves(which isn’t technically cheating… it isn’t!) So we pulled a meal/soup from the freezer. But I did make a bread(I can’t live now without a fresh loaf of bread on my counter)… Read more
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FeaturedRecap Culinary #2
Well our second week is finished and I think we can label it a tremendous success. When life gives ya lemons… make these incredible foods and enjoy! Literally the prettiest bread I think I have ever made! (And it doesn’t taste too bad either) Rosemary is one(of many) of my favorite spices paired with that… Read more
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FeaturedThe Stripes of Spring
Man the weather here in ole Wisconsin has been marvelous! Super sunny and a balmy 32-45 degrees. Trust me after going through weeks of -35 this is like heaven. Anyway I thought I would do a fashion post, which I haven’t done in… I don’t know months. But the look below is probably as near… Read more
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