Smack dab in the middle of a very, very good weekend. This weekend I celebrated my 31st birthday! After last year’s 30th B-Day Bash-stravaganza, I was more than happy to keep my celebrating simple and sweet. And I was totally successful. I spent the weekend lazing about with my two favorite menfolk. Laughing and laughing [...]

It’s snowing! Tuesday night. 10:18 pm. Long day, late work, but at least the world is slowly disappearing under a quiet cloud of ivory crystals outside my window. And life is beautiful, no? Sometimes it can be hard to stay on a healthy track in winter. Here’s how I made it work . . . [...]

And so it settles down. We did the holiday food and we did the New Year’s food. And it was good, wasn’t it? Well I don’t know about you, but for all that goodness, I’m actually quite excited to get back into my normal food. I love my food! Last Friday was just another boring [...]

We didn’t partake in this particular cake, but it sure was gorgeous. Yay chocolate wedding cake! What a way to welcome in the new year! We spent January 1st in the adorable little town of Ashland (home of the best co op I’ve ever visited, and you know I’m a connoisseur!), celebrating as two of [...]

Merry Merry! Last week my little family road-tripped up to Damian’s parent’s house in Bremerton, a quiet city that sits on Puget Sound, right across the way from Seattle. We stayed with them for four nights, and celebrated a different holiday every single day that we were there. As a big fan of celebrations, I [...]