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Fourth of July in Pawhuska: Everything you need to know
The Fourth of July in Pawhuska provides a small-town Independence Day experience with a big dose of charm. Located in northeast Oklahoma in the heart of Osage County, Pawhuska (pop. 3700) offers a fantastic blend of activities, food, music, and fireworks for creating...
Healthy holiday tips we learned from Noom
We're sharing healthy holiday tips we learned from Noom to help you stay on track with your wellness goals this holiday season. My husband, Steve, and I downloaded the Noom weight loos app in March 2019 and lost a combined 200 pounds. While end-of-year parties, family...
The perfect holiday getaway in Pawhuska, Oklahoma
Our Airbnb in Pawhuska called Postcard Place is decorated for Christmas, and we're excited to welcome guests again this holiday season. Click HERE to book on Airbnb today! With great shopping at The Pioneer Woman Mercantile and other local retail shops,...
How to make this festive (and healthy) Christmas charcuterie board
Making a festive (and healthy) Christmas charcuterie board is actually not that difficult. Today, I'm sharing my tips for creating a beautiful board, along with a list of groceries you'll need. I love making healthy Christmas charcuterie boards for parties and...
FREE delivery driver thank you printable
Need a FREE delivery delivery driver thank you printable? I don't know about all of you, but we are so grateful for the incredibly hard working women and men who deliver packages to our door. Our UPS guy, Eric is THE BEST! He works long hours to get packages to...
How to have a romantic Valentine’s Day at home with the help of Hy-Vee
Do you need ideas for a romantic Valentine's Day at home this year? Normally, we look forward to cooking Valentine's dinner at home together. But like most of you, we've done that about 857 times since the start of the pandemic. So this year, we partnered with our...
Best Mother’s Day gifts you can buy online
Need some last minute shopping ideas for the best Mother's Day gifts? We've compiled a list of 11gift ideas we've found through our travels that are sure to please the mom (or any woman, really) on your list. And, you can purchase all these gifts online so you...
All our best holiday gift ideas for travelers
Looking for some of the best gift ideas for travelers on your holiday shopping list? As regular readers of our blog know, we are avid travelers. Over the course of our journeys, we’ve found some things that we simply HAVE to have when traveling. Note that some of the...
Gift ideas for the home cook or foodie on your shopping list
Need some great gift ideas for the home cook on your list? We've got you covered. As regular readers of our blog know, we’ve been losing weight, but that has only made us focus more on the quality of food that we eat and cook at home. Because we want every calorie to...
Gifts for cruisers on your holiday shopping list
As regular readers of our blog know, we are avid cruisers, and simply love every minute we spend at sea. Cruising is a unique type of vacation, and there are some things we’ve found that really help smooth out the seas while we’re on board. We've put together...
Postcard Jar’s road trip gift guide for the holidays
Who doesn't love a good road trip? One of our greatest pleasures is hopping in the car and just driving somewhere. Whether you’re stuffing a stocking or giving a big gift, this road trip gift guide offers ideas for things that every road tripper will appreciate having...
Our picks for best April Fool’s Day posts 2019
Do you love April Fool's Day as much as we do? Each year, we look forward to playing harmless pranks on each other and we've even written a few April Fool's Day blog posts like the one about Ann's first visit to a nude beach. This year, we noticed more and more...
Yes, we ate a jellied beef ring on our trip through the South
We’ve featured a lot of unique restaurants on our blog. But none compares to the culinary experience we had earlier this year while road tripping across the south. Flabbergasted (yes, that’s the name of the place) is known across the South for its vintage jellied beef...
The Flora-Bama Polar Bear Dip: A heart stopping start to the New Year
When Ann heard about an event in Orange Beach, Alabama, called the Flora-Bama Polar Bear Dip, she thought it sounded like a great idea. Knowing full well which one of us would get to run headlong into the Gulf of Mexico on New Year's Day, (and who would stay dry to...
How we got a seat at The Pioneer Woman Mercantile’s first ever whole hog dinner
Now empty nesters, the last several years we’ve spent Valentine’s Day at home and enjoyed cooking a nice meal together. The menu has stayed pretty much the same: a wedge salad, some kind of potato and a juicy Nebraska beef ribeye steak for Steve and a piece of fresh...
Celebrating New Year’s Eve at Coast in Gulf Shores
We celebrated a lovely New Year's Eve at Coast Restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama this year. It was a great place to stop and spend the holiday while traveling from our home in Oklahoma to Florida for a cruise. The nice folks at The Beach Club Resort & Spa offered...
How we spent our Valentine’s Day
We love being home together on Valentine's Day. Typically, we spend the evening cooking together while listening 80's love songs and then enjoy a nice dinner by candlelight. This year, our Valentine's Day celebration started a bit earlier in the day, as we were...
Finally home for the Fourth of July
After having spent the Fourth of July out of the country three of the past four years, we're excited to be home this year to celebrate our country's Independence Day. In 2013, we were in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2015 we celebrated in Barcelona, Spain. And last...
Celebrating Christmas at sea
Christmas has always been a really important time for me. I love preparing for and celebrating the birth of my Savior, giving and receiving gifts, singing Christmas carols, and spending time with family and friends. So, it was't easy for me to agree to taking a family...
How to pack gifts for a cruise at Christmas
Yes, it is possible to pack for a cruise at Christmas. I love giving people gifts. I truly enjoy picking out just the right things, wrapping them in color-coordinated paper, and tying them up with fancy bows and name tags. I couldn't imagine Christmas morning without...
A look back at 2016
After traveling in the Caribbean for 10 days over Christmas, Steve and I returned to our home in Crete, Nebraska, about 15 seconds before the clock struck midnight Saturday night and just in time for a New Year's kiss to ring in 2017. Before we delve into our travel...
A peek at this year’s new ornaments
For the past several years, we've decorated what we like to call our Christmas travel tree. [We wrote a blog post all about it that you can read HERE.] We had lots of help decorating for Christmas this year. Our daughter, Meghan, was home and we invited a couple local...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remembering an incredible leader and man today.
Happy New Year!
On this last day of 2015, it has been nice to reminisce about our year, where we've been and where we'd still love to go someday. Our travels began when we welcomed in 2015 with a New Year's celebration with our parents in the Florida Keys and took us to Estes Park...
Decorating our travel tree with souvenirs
Years ago, I started purchasing Christmas tree ornaments when we'd travel. I loved unpacking the ornaments each year and reminiscing about the places we'd been and the things we'd seen. At some point, we collected enough ornaments to decorate an entire tree and I...
To the Ends of the Earth
When you live in America, it can be easy to forget that there are children all over the world who have never heard the story of Jesus' birth, or received a Christmas gift. As Americans, we tend to get pretty wrapped up this time of year with Black Friday shopping,...
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