For the first six months of our marriage I bought many, many bags of chicken breast. I would buy a big bag from the grocery store, use it up within a week, and go back for more. I eyed the chicken thighs that were so much cheaper but I did not know how to deal …
As a child, I wanted to be Ariel from The Little Mermaid. I used to watch The Little Mermaid every afternoon, and I would beg my Mom to watch it with me. She would bring down her sewing or some other busy work and try to get a few things done while we watched this …
“Is something wrong?” My hubby asked as I hurried through the living room. I turned to look at him, my arms full of junk. In my abrupt halt a shoe fell off my pile, and landed with a thud on the carpet. I studied my husband : his brow was furrowed, he looked rather lost and …
I cheated on my favorite grocery store this last weekend. If you have been reading Dandelion Pie for awhile, you know how much I love to shop at Aldi, and why I make an effort to drive over an hour to get my Aldi fix at least once a month. We live in a small town …
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I woke up early one Saturday morning, sat in the morning light, and wondered if I was pregnant. To clarify, I have convinced myself I am pregnant multiple times in our first nine months of marriage. Not that we are trying, but simply because I enjoy maintaining the thought that at any given time I might …
I started writing letters to my future husband five years before I met him. I don’t know what prompted me to start compiling a book of letters to him. Maybe, while at a sleepover, my best friend mentioned she was writing letters to her future husband. Perhaps I found the idea in one of my many relationship …
The other day I sat down, and wrote out an exhaustive list of every single thing I need to accomplish. I wrote it in a little notebook with puppies on the cover, because I figured I would not be intimidated by a notebook with furry bundles of cuteness staring at me.
March has been a month of dreaming. April will be a month of hustle. In less than a month, hubs will have finished his last semester as a full-time undergraduate student, I will have worn a funny hat and tassel and walked across a stage to graduate, and summer will be peeking at us from around …
On my wedding day, I walked up the aisle thinking about getting married, and then walked back down the aisle thinking about babies. Baby fever set in fast. I have always known I wanted to have a big family, and part of the reason I fell in love with husband is because he wants lots of …
Have you ever felt so stressed that you developed an eye twitch? Last spring, I was incredibly overwhelmed: I was finishing my last full-time semester as a college student, was involved in multiple plays, and I was planning a wedding. I was exhausted, and I had an eye twitch to show it. I had spent the last …
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