Whew! What a week! We just said good-bye yesterday to the contractors we hired for the baby’s room after a week of them working to complete the space. The nursery has been seamlessly added to our upstairs, and it looks terrific! I didn’t accomplish as much on my list this week as I had hoped…
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Thirty Before Thirty
via So….It’s T-minus one month and counting (give or take) before I hit a very big milestone in my adult life.The Big. Three. Oh!Wow. Despite my ever-increasing patch of grey and the fact that pregnancy-induced sciatica has reduced me to walking like a woman three times my age, I really am feeling okay with this. Much…
A Digital Walk Down Memory Lane
I have three active email accounts, all of which are literally bursting at the seams with messages. My nesting urge seems to be touching even on the digital realm of my life, as I was hit this week with a desire to weed out all of the junk. In the process, I was surprised and…
Grey
viaSo – ahem. I am going to admit something that is really bothering me, even though I know it shouldn’t be. Really.Bothering.Me.It started with a stray grey right on the crown of my head.And then I found another.And another.And (seriously?) another.Girls and boys, I am losing this battle. I am starting on the road to grey-ville.I feel like…
A Story About Procrastination
via Only the people who know me best know a dirty little secret I’ve been harboring since, well, birth. It’s something I’m not proud of. And it’s something I’ve been working hard to mitigate for years now, and something I know I will continue to deal with for the rest of my life.Friends, I am a…
Gotta-have-it-itis
via Moving into a new home is a lovely, memorable time, but one that puts you at risk of being infected with a very insidious disease the moment the shiny new key first turns in the door.It’s a disease that makes you feel like what you already have is inadequate.An affliction that makes you covet…
A Love Story + Food (Chapter 7) – Decadent Brownie Trifle
In case you’re new to A Love Story + Food, you might want to take a minute to read what you’ve missed. And for a full description of the concept behind the series, you can click here. Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6 I’ll pick up today right where I left off in Chapter…
A Love Story + Food (Chapter 6)
In case you’re new to A Love Story + Food, you might want to take a minute to read what you’ve missed. And for a full description of the concept behind the series, you can click here. Chapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5 *** All caught up? On we go to the next part of…
A Love Story + Food (Chapter 5)
If you’re just tuning in…Chapter 1 (plus a description of the concept behind the series)Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4***This series is coming about completely organically, which means the stories and snippets are coming out of chronological order. I wrote about Matt’s and my departure for college in Chapter 3, and that is where I am going…
A Love Story + Food (Chapter 4)
Wondering what this series is all about? Click here for a description of the series and Chapter 1, and click below for links to the subsequent installments. Chapter 2Chapter 3***I am five years old. Maybe a bit more, maybe a smidgen less. I awake to the gentle cadence of the old clock in my grandparents’ hallway, the…