Tomato plants have been the bane of my existence this past summer. My loyal readers, who have stuck with me through the various gardening adventures this past summer (from our disastrous tilling incident to the gardening update that revealed the sad plight of my tomatoes), will remember that tomatoes and my small backyard garden did …
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As a child, I filled old baking soda tins with bachelor buttons and peddled them from our front lawn. I had already cornered the market on lemonade, and decided to branch out selling the brightly-colored flowers my Mom grew in her garden. I have always loved flowers: from selling them from my lemonade stand as …
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This week has been full of good things: donuts, big cups of coffee, and crunchy leaves. Here are a few things that have been going on in our corner of the woods (no election talk guaranteed!). This post may contain affiliate links. 1)Donuts When I was ten, my Grandma and I sold donuts to people …
Five on Friday: Homemade donuts, hygge, and absolutely no politics (guaranteed!). Read More »
I tend to be a little tightly wound. It is one of the world’s biggest mercies that I married a man who is the opposite of me, in this regard. I like being places early, following the rules, dotting my i’s and crossing my t’s. My personality lends itself well to academia, makes me very …
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Meatloaf, carob cupcakes, ice cream, sauerkraut…this has been a delicious week! Saia has taken his lunches to work lately, and he says that his coworkers are always jealous…until they find out what he is actually eating. Ha ha! He brought meatloaf a couple of times this week, and everyone was salivating over it until he let …
If you’ve been reading my blog awhile you know that I have baby fever. You’ve been with me as I awkwardly bought my pregnancy test, laughed with me as I used a baby generator to try to figure out what our children would look like, and read my list of all the ways I have …
When Everyone (Including Telemarketers) Is Talking To You About Babies Read More »
I suffer from a constant state of wanderlust. Social media feeds my need to travel. At any given time I am reading posts by bloggers who are traveling, see photos of friends who are traveling or reading articles about the importance of travel. A few summers ago, I was selling donuts, breads, and granola at …
I dreamed of piles of waffles last night. Warm, fluffy, lightly browned waffles glistening with syrup. Oh yum. If you are not on a restrictive diet, I plead with you to go eat a waffle for me. It seems that my pancake cravings have subsided, and have been replaced by yearning for waffles instead. I never …
If it wasn’t for the homemade peach-rhubarb pie… It has now been four weeks since we started the Autoimme Paleo Protocol (read why we started here). I cringe as I type out this fourth update, but I might as well make the confession: we both ate pie. Non-AIP pie. Very delicious pie. My family got together …
The Toughest Week So Far I was hungry our first week, cautiously optimistic our second week, and then there was this week. Our first two weeks on AIP were busy, challenging, but fruitful. I felt like every day I was learning how to navigate life without our old beloved recipes. I was researching, growing in …
