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    Visiting An Apple Orchard

    September 24, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #23

    September 20, 2021 by

    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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    Holiday in Door County

    September 16, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #22

    September 13, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #21

    September 6, 2021 by

    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

    August 30, 2021 by

    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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    Oconomowoc Arts Festival 2021

    August 26, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #19

    August 23, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #18

    August 17, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #17

    August 9, 2021 by

    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

    August 5, 2021 by

    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

    August 2, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #15

    July 26, 2021 by

    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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    Devotional Art Journaling: Kids Addition

    July 15, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #14

    July 12, 2021 by

    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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    Bible Art Journaling

    July 8, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #14

    July 6, 2021 by

    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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    Nannying in the Summer

    July 1, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #12

    June 28, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #11

    June 21, 2021 by

    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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    The Busy Business of Summer

    June 11, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Week #10

    June 8, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Challenge Week #9

    May 31, 2021 by

    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

    May 27, 2021 by

    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

    May 24, 2021 by

    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

    May 17, 2021 by

    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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    Taking My Mom to Tampa

    May 13, 2021 by

    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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    Mature Style Evolution

    May 6, 2021 by

    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

    May 3, 2021 by

    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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    Apartment Tour 2021

    April 29, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Week #6

    April 26, 2021 by

    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

    April 22, 2021 by

    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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    Culinary Week #5

    April 12, 2021 by

    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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    Favorite Crafts for Kiddos

    April 8, 2021 by

    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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    The Homeschooling Perspective

    April 1, 2021 by

    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

    March 22, 2021 by

    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

    March 19, 2021 by

    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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    One Year Ago

    March 18, 2021 by

    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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    Cuisine Challenge Week #3

    March 16, 2021 by

    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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    Recap Culinary #2

    March 8, 2021 by

    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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    Self-Defense vs. Christianity

    March 5, 2021 by

    We started this topic last year(read here) and I am finally ready to delve into the next chapter. When I first talked to my Dad about writing this series he was all for it. He noticed a lack of practical tips and discussion on self-defense for women by women. And especially a lack of representation… Read more

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    The Stripes of Spring

    March 4, 2021 by

    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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    How to Build Habits

    February 25, 2021 by

    So my sister was lamenting the other day how she can just not set up a habit to save her life. She’s knee deep in her second semester of film school, plus working full time, plus trying to live and has found the balance hard to establish. I very casually(though I am not trying to… Read more

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    Recap Culinary Week #1

    February 22, 2021 by

    Hello loves it’s been a minute. Had a very busy week and another one to go this week. And then March looks like I have something going every weekend. Which if you know me(slight introvert over here) it just sounds like a lot of work. Yikes! But I will hopefully get my posts back on… Read more

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    Week #1 Culinary Challenge

    February 15, 2021 by

    Welcome to the first week of my sister and I’s 2021 Culinary Challenge!! (For more info read here) This is just gonna be a super quick post on our word for the week that all our cooking has to revolve around. In next week’s Monday post you’ll get a full list of what we made… Read more

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    The Art of Beginning Single

    February 14, 2021 by

    Happy Valentine’s to all you lovely, lovely people! Well it’s another year, another post on how I am surviving singleness. (Here’s two more for your perusal: here and here) Quiet honestly I was tempted not to do this post. I didn’t want to keep beating a dead horse as it were, but in the end… Read more

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    Cuisine Challenge 2021

    February 12, 2021 by

    New topic alert! So I have been toying with an idea and this morning it finally crystallized in my brain. Which means it is ready to share with you guys! And who knows maybe you guys will want to do it too. The Idea… I realize I have been doing a lot of food content… Read more

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    Top Five Romance Films

    February 11, 2021 by

    Happy Valentine’s!! Yay for love- So I have no idea what you guys are doing for Valentine’s but my sister and I will probably eat a delicious meal and watch some cheesy movie. But what movie? Below I have compiled my favorite “romance” films. (I’m using romance very loosely as some of them might be… Read more

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    Windowsill Garden Tour 2021

    February 4, 2021 by

    I was just lovingly watering my beloved Herbert(pictured above- yes I named him and yes it’s a him and yes I am slightly crazy) When I realized I haven’t done my New Year tour of my plants! In addition I am going to tell you about my new additions(super excited) that I’m planning on. So… Read more

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