Junk, junk, and more junk. That is all I saw when I looked at our apartment. For the last few months, I have been feeling increasingly dissatisfied with our apartment. I don’t know if this increased desire to beautify my home is due to the nesting phase beginning (they say that happens during pregnancy), if it …
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Who knew that making body butter could be so easy? For the past six months, I’ve been on the lookout for a natural lotion or body butter. Hubby has perpetually dry skin (Polynesian skin + Nebraska weather doesn’t mix too well), and with my growing bump, I’ve been moisturizing like never before to try to avoid …
Something strange has happened in the Lotulelei household the past few months: I have consistently kept our apartment tidy. Whoa. For most of our first year of marriage, both of our schedules were off the charts busy. We generally cleaned up on the weekends, so when someone dropped by unexpectedly my blood would run cold. We …
At the beginning of the year I started overhauling our diet. I wrote about the first thirteen steps we took towards a real food diet, and today I wanted to take some time to review the goals I made last time, document the new changes we’ve made in our diet, and write a few goals for the future. …
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 opened up my closet this weekend, and an avalanche of clothes fell out practically burying me with cotton, muslin, and wool. I grabbed a trash bag to begin sorting clothes to send to Goodwill, but every item I picked up flooded me with memories. One dress was a what I wore on our honeymoon, …
I was always afraid of orchids. They seemed so delicate, and difficult to care for. Until that day that my boyfriend came to one of my rehearsals, and brought me a gift: a beautiful, pink orchid. Everyone oohed, and awed, and I blushed the same color as the orchid, but underneath my excitement, I had a …
