Welcome to The Nest, our little mini episodes of Best to the Nest, where I, Elizabeth Reese, along with my wonderful co-host, what is your name?

Marjorie Ponna.

Where we talk about, things that are making our nest may be more beautiful, more delicious, more wonderful, more fabulous, more fun.

All the things that we're bringing into our home that we find add some value and we think that you might love too. Okay, so what's happening

this week, Marjorie? We were talking about mornings and chaos and trying to avoid chaos on

Best to the Nest this week. Yeah, that part of keeping the nest in order is to try and do things

with intention. And I think keeping the nest in order is all about finding peace and finding sometimes

when things are crazy of finding the things that just singularly make you feel better.

Ooh, great.

That might sound a little selfish, but I think I had this thing. So I wanted to share with you. So when

the kids are little, I raised a house of boys. You will, you know, I had this thing. So I wanted to share with you. So when the kids are little, I raised a house of

boys. You will, you know, I had older sisters. So I have three sisters. So I grew up in a house

of girls, very female focused. And so it was sort of a weird joke on me when I had two boys,

two boys in two, you know, they're two years apart. And so when things get a little

crazy where I would feel stressed because of work and everything that was going on, I raised our

children in, in Minnesota. I don't know if I've ever told you this, Elizabeth. I would often go to a

store called Sacks Off Fifth. Oh, I love Sacks Off Fifth. It's closed now in the Twin Cities. But I think reopened.

Oh, yeah. Maybe you're right. It reopened in downtown. But when I used to go there, it was in the old

Saks Fifth Avenue building. Yeah. So it was kind of an outlet-y kind of feel housed within this beautiful

old school department store. And I used to go up to the top floor. I think it was

the sixth floor. And so, mind you, this is, this was my stress reliever from being in a house of

boys and men, but at the time, boys. And I would just go and try on the pretty gowns. No way.

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