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The Mayo Clinic Vacation

By Nancy August 1, 2025About Me, TravelHannibal, lego, Mayo Clinic, Minneapolis, Minnisota, Rochester, vacation, wilson orchard, windmills, zollman park

“Baby Girl” has had a low platelet count all her life, and her primary care physician decided about two years ago to try to figure out why. She’s given tons of blood samples since then and…

Special Flour, Special Bread Making Class

By Nancy July 25, 2025About Me, Easy Entertaining

The day following my special birthday dinner by Chef Justin Ward, Hubby and I hosted a bread making class with our Chef and his special flour. Justin imports his flour, which is available for sale on…

The Birthday Journal

By Nancy January 24, 2025About Mebirthday, journal, memories, tradition

Years ago, I witnessed a "formal" interview between my 4-year-old nephew and his father on that child's birthday. It went a little like this: My brother-in-law: “What’s your favorite color?” My nephew: “Ummmm. Bwue.” BIL: “What’s…

Houston Journey

By Nancy October 25, 2024About Me

As you know, good, close families sometimes spread out geographically as siblings and then the children of siblings find their own career paths, have families of their own, and sound the siren call for grandparents (the…

Family Fun on the Fourth

By Nancy July 5, 2024About Me

Happy 4th of July a day late! It seems like family gatherings happen somewhat spontaneously at my house these days. My mom missed out on some prime time with her grands. We didn’t know a few weeks ago…

Fancy IKEA Curtains

By Nancy April 5, 2024About Me, Home Tourbathroom remodel, custom curtains, IKEA curtains, master bathroom2 Comments

The remodeling of my master bathroom has left me gasping at prices these days on everything. Every. Little. Thing. I’ve saved money where I could for the most part, but labor is sky-high, and materials are through…

Hiding in Plain Sight

By Nancy March 22, 2024About Me, Home Tourbarn doors, cafe curtains, drop cloth curtains, food pantry, kitchen pantry

I’ve been quiet on the blog for a while now. We’re in the middle of a remodel of our master bathroom that I’d hoped would only take six weeks. There have been glitches and delays, and we still…

Unity in Charcuterie

By Nancy February 16, 2024About Me, Easy EntertainingCharcuterie, fundraising, Valentine's Day

Charcuterie boards are having more than a moment. They were already a thang when I had my kitchen island transformed into a massive board for my daughter’s graduation party two years ago. Our Bible Quiz teams at…

Working on Small

By Nancy February 2, 2024About Me

There's some remodeling going on at the house, so I'm sort of grounded for a while. It's really not a terrible thing as it takes away any excuse not to work on some paintings. A wise…

The Boca

By Nancy January 26, 2024About Me

Boca Raton is a special place that I was blessed to visit this past week with hubby. He was asked to give a presentation, and the company opened the invitation to me to join him at the…