Farm Raised | Shoe Enthusiast | Baking Queen | Mom
My perfect Mother’s Day weekend? I’m pretty easy to please … just give me plenty of time to work in my gardens, cooking a Saturday evening meal at home with my boys, a trip to the local garden store, cookies baking in the oven, a new frog decoration from Joe to add to my collection, […] Read more…
Apparently I took full advantage of a three day weekend … so much fun packed in, let me tell you! Friday, my sister, niece and I took my mom out for our 3rd annual early Mother’s Day pedicure adventure and we enjoyed lunch out and some shopping in downtown Excelsior, Minnesota. What a fun day! […] Read more…
Hello friends! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend celebrating Easter or Passover, as the case may be. We hosted my family here at our house and it was a wonderful afternoon. We enjoyed Apricot Bourbon Glazed Ham along with cheesy hash brown potatoes, this fruit salad, green beans with a lemon cream sauce, […] Read more…
Here we are on another Sunday night and weirdly, I feel like I have all this energy right now. I have no idea why – just that I was pretty productive today and I hope this carries over to the week ahead. Friday evening Teacher Man and I headed over to Norm’s Wayside Rest to […] Read more…
Was my last blog post really January 20? Good grief. So goes my life the first three months of the year. I traveled to Atlanta, San Antonio, and Minneapolis for work and in between, I just tried to hang on for the ride – amidst a winter that showed its fangs this year. And there […] Read more…
I’ve been totally lax about posting this month. Okay, more like nonexistent since my Happy New Year post. That’s never my intention, but sometimes life gets in the way. 😉 Work has ramped up, as it always does, once January 1 hits. (Which isn’t to say I was bored prior to that – far from […] Read more…
Welcome, 2019! I hope you all had a wonderful New Year’s Eve, spending it with the people you love. We braved the rather ugly (snow/ice-covered roads) to head out to the farm, hanging with my family. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the evening. Somehow I missed getting a picture with my […] Read more…
Oh my word. Christmas is all officially over and how did that happen, anyway? One of my traditions is always to make Grandma’s Christmas Kringla recipe, so I’m happy to say I did make that happen. Thank my lucky stars I took the entire week off because otherwise I’d be sulking in a funk at the office, […] Read more…