Who says I need to have a specific topic to write a post? I haven’t been totally random in a while. (Um, Teacher Man would probably disagree, but I’m specifically talking about my blog here.) And I miss it. I miss the creativity of just typing out whatever comes to…
Hello friends! How was your Thanksgiving weekend? As is the case every year, ours went way too fast, and now Joe and I find ourselves on the couch, lamenting that our little break is over. I’m not quite sure I’m ready for Monday – this week is going to be…
How was your weekend? We spent ours mostly at home, doing nothing in particular but enjoying some football, baking, and catching up with some good friends we don’t see nearly enough. In other words, what’s not to love? Some of my favorite snaps from the weekend: Friday morning sunrise –…
I have no idea why I am so completely tired tonight. Like collapse on the couch, barely-keeping-my-eyelids open tired. (Although Earl the pug did wake me up at 5:57 a.m. when he started roaming around our bedroom, making his usual pug snorting and heavy breathing sounds, apparently believing – and…
I’m not really playing hooky today, but there is something about taking a day off on Monday that feels like I’m cheating just a little. I went for a run in my neighborhood this morning, marveling at the blue sky and crisp morning air. When I got back, I walked…
Is it really November 1? It just doesn’t seem possible that we’ve got two months left of 2015 and we’re heading smack dab into holiday season. But alas, let us first review the highlights from Halloween weekend, which was spent in part on the farm with my family. 1) Cousins…
How is everyone doing? It’s turned a little chilly this week in Minnesota (not surprising by any means), but the weekend is looking decent and we’ll be heading to my brother’s on the farm to celebrate the end of a safe and successful harvest, Halloween, and some serious duck hunting…
I just had the BEST weekend. I cooked, I baked, I washed the sheets on every bed in the house, I planted my garlic and cut down my hydrangeas and peonies, I grocery shopped and menu planned for the upcoming week, I wrote blog posts (yes plural!), I vacuumed up…