Anyone who lives in the Midwest can totally relate. After the thrill of Christmas is taken down and packed away until next year, we're left with cold, dark, snowy days that never seem to end. Wisconsinites are left with no choice but to surrender to the long winter ahead. So how do we cope? I'm certainly no stranger to a major side effect … [Read more...]
Christmas Home Tour 2020
Well, it's certainly hard to believe Christmas is already 1 week away. With as fast as the holidays have been approaching, I truly didn't even know if I'd have time to get around to doing a Christmas Home Tour post. But, as the fates would have it, my oldest daughter and I were unexpectedly thrown into quarantine this week after a potential … [Read more...]
Winter Pom Pom Wreath Craft
It's still winter here in the Midwest. Mother Nature doesn't really seem to be letting up anytime soon, so as much as I would love to start putting out all my spring decorations around the house, we're not quite there yet. But you know what all these snow days we've been having lately are good for? Crafting! Being stuck at home in a … [Read more...]
Snow Days & Sick Germs
Hey there my long-lost blogging buddies! Between the hit of the polar vortex here in Wisconsin and getting slammed with some of the worst flu germs our family's seen in a while, I can gladly say that I'm still here and survived to tell the tale! We've had a total of 5... Count them... FIVE... Snow days home from school over the last … [Read more...]
Outdoor Christmas Porch
This has been the start of a strange winter here in Wisconsin. Once we hit October, we kind of skipped right over any sort of fall we had left and went straight into winter. Cold winter. Gray days. Cold winter, gray days, with no snow. (insert frowney face) If it's going to be 19 degrees and bleak outside at least let it be pretty with … [Read more...]
5 Great Children’s Books All About Winter
Here in Wisconsin, when it's negative 5 degrees and the cold air literally hurts your face, you don't spend an awful lot of time doing outside activities this time of year. Granted, my kids do still bundle up a few times a day, fleece face masks and all, to go outside and play at recess for a short while. But primarily, we find things indoors to do … [Read more...]
Happy New Year & Winter’s Here
Happy Friday & Happy New Year! I am finally getting back into the swing of things after our busy holiday season came to an end, kids (& I) returned back to school and we are finally all well again. (Our family came down with mega-colds over Christmas break, and I ended up with a sinus infection, which wasn't too much fun.) It feels good … [Read more...]
Braving the Winter with Chickens
It's time to talk chickens again. They don't call me the crazy chicken lady for nothing! I'm just as crazy about my feathered beauties now as the day I brought them home in all their fuzzy yellow cuteness. (They grow up so fast!) So, once the weather started to take a turn towards winter, I knew we needed to do a few things to help protect our … [Read more...]
Cold Hands, Warm Hearts
Happy New Year friends! I had a nice little blogging break in the 2 weeks between Christmas and New Year's, spent enjoying lots of family time. I sort of relish the days when the kids are home on break and our schedule has slowed waaaaay down, and I have time to just savor life and all its simple moments. While the kids were busy playing with … [Read more...]
Transitioning from Christmas to Winter Decor
I love finding new ways to re-invent the style of my home. I am one of those people who will sit down in your living room and start contemplating how I would rearrange your furniture or hang things differently on your walls. Trust me, I've done it enough times to my own home, I could do it to yours! My husband jokes and calls it "my disease" and … [Read more...]