Food + Holidays

I’ve always enjoyed Christmas in a ho-ho-ho-hum sort of way. Sure, I am enchanted by Christmas lights, love some Christmas music (if they only could start playing it just a week ahead of time) and never met a Christmas cookie...

Do you feel like winter is never going to end? I am going to teach you how to DIY winter decor pieces that will bring some joy and color to your outdoor spaces. Which do you prefer: fresh flowers or...

To the mama overwhelmed by Christmas, We can’t grab coffee, though how dearly I wish we could. But let's pretend for a minute you squish into my couch and I pour you a cup of warm joe. I ask...

After living in Duluth for almost 10 years, I had assumed we had done it all at Christmas time - Bentleyville, Christmas City Express, the Christmas City of the North Parade, all of the countless markets - I could go on and on. We’ve driven around to the best-lit neighborhoods and we have all of our traditions mapped out by the time October hits. We know this Christmas city like the back of our hand. But imagine my surprise when we happened upon a new tradition to add to the list: Candlelight Christmas Tour at Glensheen Mansion.

I’ll start by saying that you can start any of these traditions at any time, but when I was a new mom I really wanted to get Christmas right. I felt a lot of pressure to make sure my...

If you know me personally, I think it would be fairly easy for you to assume that Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, but I’ll let you in on a little secret: it's not! I am a WOO...

Truthfully, I had every intention to write about streamers and recipes and throwing the perfect Valentine's party. And maybe another day I will. But for today, life feels all too fleeting. And my heart is stirring with this line...

  Running two businesses while simultaneously running a household, hosting events, and managing volunteering endeavors, well, I have to be organized, or my life will disintegrate. Imagine me to be the Yoda of planning and organization (about the same height...

It’s blueberry picking season in the Northland and, if you're like me, you're getting out and picking blueberries every chance you get. I try to pick around 15-20 pounds of blueberries a year from a couple different berry places...

I’ve minimized my sock drawer, twice. I've burned through the stack of books I was planning to reading “someday” and now that I am juggling distance learning and working from home off of nothing more than a hotspot, my...