I just had the most wonderful weekend and wanted to share it with you for this month’s Self Portrait post! Every year my mom, sisters and I try to plan two nights away so that we can relax and spend time together. It’s been three years since our last weekend away and we were definitely overdue!!! My […]
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The last two weeks of March 2015 will forever go down in our family history books as The Plague of March. Oh my WORD. Look up “miserable” in the dictionary and you will see a picture of my little family. Colds and congestion on top of three waves of a stomach flu. (THREE. MAY I […]
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When we moved back to Fargo a couple years ago we had an army of help from our church friends. In the middle of the moving hubbub, a little old lady named Helen dropped by with warm food for the hungry helpers. It had perfectly diced little potato cubes and green peppers and ham, swimming in a […]
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I’m not usually a bookworm, but this winter has been an exception. I’ve been gathering titles for a while, and now that it’s January I finally have some time to read them. Being a mom of young children, cooking and living the lifestyle necessary for my husband’s health issues and running a business means I have limited time to […]
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Many of you know that we’ve made a lot of changes to our diet the last two years. One facet of our new diet is to eat bread made from freshly ground grains. There are so many more nutrients available to the body when bread or cereals are made from freshly milled flour! Thanks to a […]
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Hi everyone!! Yesterday wrapped up my 2014 wedding season, which means it’s time for my WINTER LIST! I’m so excited about this. I absolutely love the busy season, but I’m always excited when this time rolls around. Of course my first priority is spending a greater amount of quality time with my family, but beyond that I have BIG […]
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October Self Portrait Last night I had a hair appointment with my sister, Rachel. She’s a magic hair woman and thanks to her, I’m able to skip the salon and still keep my hair fresh! She taught me to foil and highlight so now we trade. It really is quite a fabulous arrangement for me, […]
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If you know me, you know I frequently tend to go through … phases. Remember that food phase where I ate a gallon of kalamata olives in 5 days? Oh, and that time in junior high when I starting enthusiastically pumping out handmade rugs on a loom. Well, now I’m going through a phase where I wish I could be in […]
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