*This post may contain affiliate links I always have a list of books on my wish list, so I was thrilled to discover that Amazon is offering a promo code that gives you $5 off of a $15 (or more) purchase on books (click HERE)! The sad news is that it ends TODAY so be …
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For months I have looked forward to Disney’s newest film, Moana. I wrote it boldly on my calendar, counted down the weeks, and pulled my sweet husband to our local theater on the day it opened half an hour early (unheard of for our small town), because I was sure it would be packed with fellow …
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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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 …
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As I type out this blog post, with my jaw swelling three times its size (thank you wisdom teeth), I can’t help but breathe a huge sigh of relief that this week is winding to a close. This past week was crazy between my starting a second job (as an adjunct instructor at a local …
All I wanted was a pancake. Ever since we started the Autoimmune protocol I have dreamt of pancakes: fluffy stacks of pancakes, specifically. Pancakes filled with all the no-nos that our diet requires: flour, sugar, baking powder, and lots of yum. Why oh why did I ever take pancakes for granted? Think of all those …
At the beginning of the summer, my husband and I entertained the entire neighborhood by attempting to rotatill virgin soil. We eventually succeeded, planted some seeds, and waited. Eventually those seeds sprouted, and our backyard looked less like a patch of mud, and more like a garden. We had new neighbors move in below us, and …
