I really miss seeing my team every day. I also miss our lunches at Urban Crust, jokes and happy hours. So I decided to deliver Happy Hour in a Box to everyone for us to enjoy via Zoom. And it was EPIC. The boxes contained pita strips, kalamata tapenade, tomato spread, red pepper hummus, dark […]
Ideas
Greeting Card Organization
I decided 2019 was the year to get my greeting card collection under control. Time to sort out the stacks of generic cards. Time to sort out the bought-for-this-person-because-it-was-perfect (then forgotten). Time to sort out the cards bought and never sent because life. I found the perfect solution in the form of a sturdy, 12-divider, […]
Give Your Old Jewelry New Life
I made the best gifts for my sisters this year: Their very own jewelry trees! The project was inspired by my Grandma Alloway’s tree. I wrote about it several years ago. We knew my Aunt Sheryl would inherit Grandma’s jewelry tree, so I asked to inherit my Grandma Alloway and Grandma Osborne’s jewelry collections. The […]
Operation Poppy Seed Bread
No one can resist my Grandma Osborne’s poppy seed bread. I can’t – I even figured out how to make it while living in Kenya, where I didn’t have access to any American convenience products. Our coworkers a nearly decade ago couldn’t resist it. That’s why I decided this year was the year to once […]
Christmas Community Idea | Doing Good While Spreading Cheer
I love this idea from our church. Instead of mailing Christmas cards to fellow church members, we were encouraged to drop them off (unpostmarked) at church and donate the money we would have spent on postage to the church’s mission collection. It was so easy! There was a basket for the cards and a locked […]
Three Days at TED Women
I had the privilege of attending TED Women this fall. It was a very different experience from TED Summit 2016, but was equally mentally exhausting. I participated in a pre-conference workshop with the Brightline Initiative, which was worth the entire trip. We focused on why organizations struggle to move from strategy ideation to strategy execution. […]
How A Half Marathon Made Me Try A Grocery Pick Up Service
As I mentioned earlier, Kelly and I ran a serious leg-shredding race in Utah. After Big Cottonwood, I could barely hobble to the bathroom for days. There was no way I could manage the grocery store. That’s how we ended up trying online grocery shopping for the first time. My verdict? Not bad! One of […]
24 Hours in Nashville | Traveler’s Tips
Nashville is one of those places where there are so many things to do, it gets hard to decide where to get started. We know. We’ve experienced it, also. Here’s a suggested itinerary based on our most recent trip to Smashville. It’s full of food, music and history – pretty much Nashville in a nutshell. […]
How To Soften New Sheets
Battling the boy cats to put sheets on our bed, in addition to normal wear-and-tear, led to more tear than we’d like in our sheets. Fortunately Macy’s had a giant sale – 700 thread count Egyptian Cotton blend sheets for just $50 (normally $130). I ordered two sets right away. But here’s my surprising discovery, very expensive […]
Easy Fruit Infusing
With the increased humidity that accompanies summer in North Texas, along with the start of a new marathon training season, Kelly and I need to amp up our water intake. Drinking water, though, can be boring. Very very boring. We do a variety of things to encourage ourselves to drink more. We add small amounts […]