In the middle of the day last Monday, when I emailed Gerrit to ask how his day was going, his response was, “Well, it can’t be bad when I’ve packed cheese straws with my lunch.” No kidding. Cheese straws, those typically unexciting, sometimes stale, often times off in flavor, Southern wedding reception staples–cheese straw–were making…
Last Thursday morning I bit into my morning breakfast bar (the protein bars I’ve been buying for a quick morning meal, because I am such a terrible breakfast eater) and something tasted faintly like plastic and a bit of gasoline. I threw it in the trash and on Friday I went out and bought the…
At one point in my elementary school life, my mother made me write down a list of the things that I like to eat for dinner. She was getting frustrated with my picky eating habits, so I wrote a list to show her that really, there were all kinds of foods I like. As long…
I like to think of myself as a fairly organized person. Actually, scratch that, I know I am a very very organized person. I have lists for just about every aspect of my life: to-do list, grocery list, home improvement list, cleaning list, books to read list, books I have read list. I ca hardly…
I don’t think this is something I’ve ever discussed online before, mostly because it was not a huge part of my life but rather my husband’s. But in the past 3 years, between the months before we got married and sometime last summer, my husband lost 50 pounds. It was a long process for him,…