Do you know what is sad? I live minutes away from so much of my family, and yet I rarely see them. We realized last week that not only had we been several weeks without seeing Gerrit’s parents, but it had also been an embarrassingly long amount of time since we had had dinner with…
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So just like that we are down to four weeks and counting before leaving for Italy. I am still pinching myself trying to believe that we are are going. Gerrit and I have been saving up money like crazy to try and make a trip happen, and I’m still in awe that we are going…
Right now it is tax season. I have taken so many trips to the post office, that the other day when I went to buy more odd groupings of stamps, the woman at the counter looked at me and said, “Didn’t we already do this?” The other week, I had a dream in spreadsheets. Like…
I will apologize in advance for the amount of times you might hear me say this between now and February 1, but: I hate January. It is generally gloomy and dark and such a letdown after the holiday season. Our Christmas tree was just put up this weekend, but last week I felt like it…
There are always recipes in the back of my head that are constantly on my to-bake list but that I apparently don’t seem to have recipes for. I’ve been wanting to make a pumpkin cheesecake for probably two years. And last week, when I decided that I finally had a perfect excuse at the perfect…