Tandem For Two Blog

How to Speed Deep Clean Your Home This Spring!

Once a year I manage to rally my family and we take 3 hours to deep clean our house. Yes, even my teens get in on it, without being paid...

April = Go Fly a Kite + Make Time For Fun

It’s getting warmer, the birds are back and chirping, and we see our neighbors outdoors again (at least that’s how it seems here in the Midwest). When my kids were...

10 Ways to Have a Great Road Trip!

I love me a good road trip! There's just something about filling up the gas tank, loading a few supplies in the car and taking off to explore. Here's my...

March = Time to Take a Road Trip & Explore

After this unseasonably warm and snowless winter, I already have spring fever. I hear birds chirping, see spring flowers up a month early and have a bad case of wanderlust....

5 Ways To Say I Love You

Looking for some creative ways to say "I love you?" Try out a few of these:

February = Layer Your Home with Love and Comfort

I’m not sure what it is about winter, maybe because we live in a colder climate, because we’re indoors more, maybe it’s the remaining effects of Christmas goodwill, or it’s...

January = What's On This Year's Bucket List?

A new year, a fresh start. It’s like opening a new notebook and making your first list or drawing on the first clean sheet of paper (for those of us...

December = Tidings of Comfort & Joy

Comfort and Joy - I’m experiencing that right now as I am cozied up on the couch with our little dachshund in a blanket, a cup of hot coffee, and...

November = Giving Thanks

As the holiday season amps up, the weather turns colder, and our schedules start to get even busier with more activities, it does seems like a good month to stop...

October = Fall Into the Season

Apple picking, hot spiced cider or mulled wine, pumpkins on the front porch, roasted pumpkin seeds, football games, crunchy leave piles…when you think of this season a lot of great...

September = Love where you live!

This past weekend my husband and I found ourselves alone for dinner. Both teenagers had work and friend commitments, so we decided spur of the moment to have a date...

August = Finish summer with a bang!

Summer goes by entirely too fast. Goes isn’t even the best word: zooms, runs, swims, bikes. Whatever we filled our summer with, we always seem to run out of time...