The Glamorous Life of a Housewife

I get a lot of questions on how I plan our vacations and several of you suggested I write a blog post about it. So, since summer is upon us and we are all more than ready to start traveling again (can I get an amen?), I thought what better time than now. There are few things I love more…

When doing my cooking videos the most common comments I get are "tell us about your Staub pots!" So I thought I would take the time to finally tell you about them. I love a good, honest review of a product people use by choice. So let's dive into it! I will provide links to…

The only thing I know about Minnesota is that farm girl on the Food Network lives there and makes it look so charming. It seems like a nice place to visit, I've just never had any reason to go. Any place with the nickname "Land of 10,000 Lakes" seems like somewhere I need t…

Years before we ever built our house I had one dream item. Well, not counting the chandeliers, because that was a given. I shopped for and purchased some of my lighting 2 years before we even broke ground, but that's another story for another day. Back to my dream item... If you'v…

When planning a trip to visit a new place, I spend extensive time researching where and what we will eat while we're there. As proper foodies do. While living in Pennsylvania we had a trip planned to Philadelphia for a conference my husband had. We had visited Philly a few times befo…

The first few weeks of having our puppy Winston was a complete whirlwind. We were running on little sleep and adrenaline was the only thing that kept us going. Much like having a newborn. A newborn that bites. We have so many hilarious newbie puppy parent stories from that first month, b…

The Mount Rushmore State! For those of you who remember when I started this whole venture back in November know that our very first state challenge was North Dakota. And I spent most of the day calling it South Dakota, for whatever reason. But last week was finally time for actual South D…