Some of you who know me know that my job is a little non-traditional. Sometimes when talking to people about things that happen at the office, that I have come to think of as normal, I get these strange looks that remind me that I do not work in a normal office, as many people […]

First thing’s first. Who’s excited for tomorrow? We are: We (obviously – from the picture) read these books before Christmas and cannot wait to see the movie this weekend! My department at work is having an especially nerdy celebration of this event, which I’ll have to share next week. Stay tuned for that. In the […]

Once every four years. What an odd phenomenon! Do you think people are really inspired with “Carpe Diem” thoughts on this day because it’s more of a rarity? Do you do things you wouldn’t normally do, because today is special? Well, David and I do something we only get to do once every four years. […]

Happy Valentine’s Day, blog friends! In an attempt to overcome my annual winter coma of laziness and get some V-Day gifts ready, I lugged the sewing machine downstairs and did some crafting last weekend. I broke two of my rules in doing so, in honor of this rather sappy, but kind of fun holiday. Those […]

I had an entire afternoon devoted to making Christmas cookies back in December. When I’m motivated enough to do something like this, I try to get out my camera and document. So, even though this is a little out of season now, I’m posting one of my favorite Christmas cookie recipes. Also, I will not […]

I wouldn’t exactly call myself a great baker, but I can generally follow a recipe and not screw things up too badly. If you’ve read this blog for a while, you know I am blessed (or cursed?) with sudden impulses to make things. Well, occasionally I want to make something I can devour immediately after […]

Or should I say, Merry Week in-between Christmas and New Year’s during which you just feel like napping and not going to work or doing laundry or much of anything! I’m quite sure that for most of my life, I never knew that New Year’s Eve/Day were only one week after Christmas. New Year’s must […]

Today marks (she’d rather not say) years of my mother’s existence. Happy birthday, Mom! As you can obviously see, my mom is a talented lady. (And we are going skiing next weekend, so this was just all too appropriate.) For starters, she created four amazing people (with the help of my dad). But there’s more! […]

Actually, freezing in December is more like it, but I’m working on being optimistic about winter. Not really, but let’s just pretend that’s true. What I have NOT been doing in December is buying Christmas presents. I have a tendency to get all frazzled in this lovely, peaceful, joy-inducing month and miss out on enjoying […]

Here’s just a small glimpse of how we ended a long, thankful holiday. This lady went out of her way to make it special, and it was awesome. There are no pictures of the food, because I was too excited to eat it to take pictures. And my excitement was not met with disappointment. Who […]

This week David and I celebrated our third anniversary. Three is funny to me. It seems like so long and at the very same time it is such a small number. If God decides to give us thirty years together, I’m sure we will find it hillarious that we ever thought three years was a […]

So, I’m ashamed to admit it, but I think David and I both clocked over 40 hours on this project. What a hoss. My conclusions about painting the trim white in our basement are as follows (and some of you have heard this already because I like to complain about things and make others share […]

This is happening, people. It’s totally happening. Over the course of a lot of hours. Happy Thursday!