My friend Emily went to an apple farm a couple of weeks ago and brought me back a whole bunch of apples that I need to use up, so today I decided to make one of my favorite fall/winter treats: Apple Pound Cake.
This is my mom’s recipe, and I have no idea where she got [...]
I have a lot of things I’m thinking about lately, so I think I’ll just do a bullet-style post; it’s just easier than writing a ton of transitions.
Writing: A post manifesto piece about our child rearing ideas. It’s gotten really, really long. It may wind up being a series of posts, actually, but, then, that [...]
Well, I did it again. I went on another unintended blogging hiatus. *sigh* I know, I know. But, like I mentioned in this post, it’s hard for me to blog when I’m preoccupied with something else. And lately, that’s been a really rough Elanor phase. Y’all, it’s been brutal. This parenting thing just keeps getting [...]
**Picture coming in the morning; it’s late and dark and I need to go to bed.
My love of books has been with me for as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories have to do with reading, at first picture books, and later chapter books.
When my sister was born, my parents gave [...]
It’s been an insane three weeks. I’m…really tired. And also overwhelmed. And wishing that the nearest Target were not so very far away, or that I had a car to get there. (A girl needs to make a Target run after a move…I’m just saying.)
Most of all, I’m really, really happy. Since our plane landed [...]
Hello there, friends in bloggy land.
How have things been for the past, oh, almost two months? Yikes! Two months! That’s longer than I thought it would be between posts, but, you know, oh well. Gotta remember that whole “no stressing out” thing, right?
Really, things have been fine at our house. Busy, stressful at times, but [...]
Hi! I am here. I have just been consumed by first birthday party madness for the past week. We had Elanor’s party on Saturday, and it was so, so much fun. I’m working on a recap to post later this week. Our family was very generous to Elanor, and they showered her with amazing presents. [...]
It’s been quite the year for us, full of events that were made up of really hard things intertwined with really good things.
My pregnancy with Elanor and her birth was the first hard/good thing to happen. She is amazing, and wonderful, and definitely one of the highlights of the year: the ultimate good thing. But [...]
We are home from our trip to Portland for Christmas. I’m so tired right now it’s not even funny.
It was a great trip in a lot of ways. Christmas itself was wonderful; we had a lovely time with our families and feel very spoiled and blessed and loved.
The drive down, however, was not so great, [...]
Last night, Brett had a bit of a freak out over the amount of our grocery budget. Sure, it’s the second largest expense every month (with rent as number one). I guess it’s a little higher than average, probably, but given that I buy almost all organic and include all cleaning supplies, toiletries, etc in [...]
