Now

It’s been said that “someday is made up of a thousand tiny nows.” Here are some of the “nows” happening in my world:

As of MARCH 2026

Life has been wild…here are some of the recent highlights:

• Found out I’m gonna be a first-time aunt and so pumped to welcome Baby Kehoe earthside this summer!!!

• Joined the Cary-Grove Area Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and focusing on youth entrepreneurship in our local community as a member of the Miss Cary-Grove Business Leadership Pageant committee.

• Coaching an INCubatoredu team at Cary-Grove High School through the process of conceptualizing, prototyping, and launching their very own business venture – check out Stryde Spray to see what this amazing, all-woman business is up to – I could not be prouder!

• Recorded an episode of the soon-to-be smash hit podcast – The Tattooed Professional – with none other than the iconic host Dr. Sheva Guy! Can’t wait for this baby to hit the streams, it was awesome to show off my woodland garden gnome scene from the incredible artist, Chelsea Beatty, and openly reflect on how being a living coloring book can foster real human connections – even or maybe especially in the workplace.

• We wrapped up our first season as food truckers – we launched The Chef’s Playground as a way for my chef hubby to go out on his own and play with food again after spending years in fine dining kitchens, and it turns out, we really like slinging hotdogs…In a span of less than 6 months, we:
  • Bought an empty food trailer and planned to take a year to build it out.
  • Found out about a local couple retiring and selling their fully-loaded hotdog trailer.
  • Pivoted – sold our original trailer and bought the hotdog-mobile instead.
  • Hubs quit his job (on the 4th of July, fitting) to go full-on food trucking.
  • Put a new hitch on after the trailer popped off on us on the highway.
  • Survived a microburst while set-up on a riverbank, in our trailer – do not recommend.
  • Got our trailer repaired and re-wrapped by our pals at Invictus Vinyl.
  • Traded in our trusty truck (which of course died on us very unexpectedly with less than 80k miles) for a bigger, brand new beast to haul our kitchen around.
  • Did 30+ events between August – December, including a music fest that drew 40,000 people.
  • Won the judges’ “best loaded” prize with our classic Chi-Style Dawg at Glizzy Fest 2025.
  • Cooked live on Sunday Brunch and stunk up the WGN Studios like hotdogs before 7 am!
  • Pivoted – yes, again – and closed up shop for the off-season while the hubs took a consulting gig to open The Grand Social House & Tavern – a new restaurant in a historic, nearly 200-year old building.

Follow along on what comes next for our adventures-in-food-trucking here…