It was one year ago tonight that I got into bed and felt the first contractions. I laid there for an hour, timing them and wondering if it was really it, because they didn’t hurt as terribly as I expected. I woke Gerrit up and we watched Late Night with Seth Myers (which we never…
Author: Erin
Here’s what we ate this month. {An explanation as to why I’m doing this can be found in January 2015.} {Past months: January 2015 : February 2015 : March 2015 : April 2015 : May 2015 : June 2015} Jul 1–chicken spaghetti, zucchini with almonds (at the beach) Jul 2–leftovers (at the beach) Jul 3–steak, tequila lime red snapper, baked potatoes, roasted broccoli (at the beach)…
Our weekend was crazy (but in the best way possible). We hung out with friends, had Gerrit’s brother and sister-in-law stay with us, helped Gerrit’s parents move, went to the birthday party of our friends’ kid, and worked on painting the room we are converting into a playroom. And on Saturday afternoon, while Gerrit was…
Thanks to one of my favorite cookbooks of the last year, Korean short ribs have been on our family’s dinner rotation for months now. My mom made them first, and since then we’ve had them for regular family dinners and big family Sunday lunches. We’ve used the recipe on pork and beef and chicken. And it…
It’s been so long since I’ve done one of these posts, which I really wish was not the case. Whether anyone in the world cares about reading these, to me they are a snapshot of how life is in a moment when life is constantly changing. But there is no time like the present to…