Chris Cooks
Dairy-Free Hot Chocolate (Lower in Sugar, too)
We're big hot chocolate fans here. My kids want it every morning, and it's one of my favorites as well. Unfortunately, it's basically just dairy and sugar and a great way to start the day if your ideal day starts with a stomachache. Mugs | Crockpot | Ladle With the dairy allergies in our home, […]
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December 3, 2023
Holiday
Reducing Holiday Stress: 6 Ways to Prepare Your Home For the Holiday Rush
The first week of October for our family is basically like the starting flag at the racetrack. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, school activities, family visiting, traveling to visit family, kids out of school, work deadlines. The holiday season, with all its festive charm, often brings a less welcome companion – stress. So how can we reduce […]
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October 2, 2023
Design
Christmas Around Our Home 2021
When it came to decorating for Christmas, I really wanted to have a very merry first Christmas in our home. But I also was feeling really overwhelmed with finishing and cleaning up renovation dust, that I decided to concentrate our Christmas decor in a few key areas, telling myself--we can always add more in the […]
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December 13, 2021
Recipes
Three Delicious Crab Dips (gluten, grain, and dairy free!)
Crab dip isn't inherently "holiday," but it's always just been that way for me growing up. I don't ever remember having it any other time of year, even though I love it so much. Now that our diets have shifted, I love taking old favorites and making versions our entire family can enjoy. And boy, […]
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December 13, 2020
Gift Guides!
A Gift Guide of 61 Essential Tools, Broken Down By Project
Tool gift guides are a bit of a yawn sometimes, and not very helpful. We're changing all that and giving you 61 tools anybody would love to receive, and breaking them down by the task they need to accomplish! And while some tools apply to almost everything you do, every project has unique tools that […]
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November 27, 2020
Casual Friday
Casual Friday | Holiday Recap + December's Video Recap
We spent most of the holidays with our large families at our cabin and even in its in-progress state, all of the hard work we've put into it over the last few months all felt worth it. We have a full post coming up next week about all the furnishings we've added to the cabin […]
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January 4, 2019
Toolbox
The BIG Thing on my Christmas List this Year
This post is sponsored by eBay. There's one gift me and all of my girlfriends asked for for Christmas--A Dyson cordless vacuum. We've had a big upright ball Dyson for a couple years and then right before Thanksgiving, we brought it up to the cabin and forgot it--conveniently the same weekend we were having a […]
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December 13, 2018
Inspiration
Fun Games to Play over the Holidays
Are you a game person/people? We have friends over almost weekly to eat, chat and play games and it's become one of our favorite, very chill, traditions. But over the Holidays, it seems like everybody becomes game people--and isn't that fun!? Here are a few of our favorites: Monopoly Deal --probably 100x more fun than regular Monopoly Skip-Bo […]
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November 15, 2018
DIY
PSA: Instantly Fix Your Burnt Out Christmas Lights
We put up our Christmas tree over the weekend, which isn't really news. I think most people did, right? It's not really even "blog worthy." We used silver and gold bulbs we had sprinkled with sentimental ornaments we've collected over the years. But, this post is about how every year our pre-lit tree sends us […]
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December 2, 2014
Gift Guides!
A Gift Guide for the Babies + Kiddos
In case you missed it, we're in full-on online shopping mode today and posting a slew of gift guides, too! You can see the first gift guide for budding artists here. And now for the children (ps. somehow Greta always calls kids, "children" and it is so endearing I could faint.) Obviously, we have two […]
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December 1, 2014
Lifestyle
Our Easter Weekend.
This morning's post included the chalkboard drawing I did this weekend, and the amazing meal Chris prepared, but our Easter weekend was also packed with a lot of other things. Here are a few photos (of mostly Greta because I can't help myself.) There were 2 egg hunts, dyeing Easter eggs, and, of course, going […]
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April 1, 2013
