Real Women, Swimming Upstream
Photo credit to our wonderful neighbor, Larry Tonight I found myself standing at our crappy little stove thinking, we’re going to miss this. There’s a really fun upgrade to the oven temperature electronic panel that makes it almost impossible to select the desired bake temperature. For example, if I’m going for a bake temp of [...]
I made passion fruit ice cream today. It was my first time making ice cream- as an adult. I was totally convinced I would need to purchase rock salt because that's how we did it when I was a kid (*old lady statement right there). Instead I bought this freezable mixing bowl assembly that works [...]
“You no longer get vacations, you get trips” This was a piece of soberingly true advice I received once we were promoted to parents. After a rough family vacation to Cabo last year I was more than a little weary to reattempt family travel. Thankfully, now older and wiser, this year’s vacation was the closest [...]
How many of you live down the street from your parents? How about aunts, uncles, cousins? I don’t and most of the people I know don’t either. Distributed families are becoming more and more the norm especially with events like going away to college, traveling or moving to take advantage of a job opportunity. It’s [...]
There’s something about September that makes me itch. It’s like a niggling neurosis that I can’t figure out, a build up of potential energy like water behind a dam. Summertime is all about enjoyment, marinating, soaking, the gluttony of pleasure. Something about the anticipation of autumn causes me to tighten up, to pace. I thought [...]
Source As I sit in my living room overseeing my children’s speech therapy session while holding a chicken I wonder, when did I completely lose it? Was there a gradual loss of with-it-ness or was it more of an abrupt leap off the deep end? I’ve become a crazy chicken lady. Watering the garden, holding [...]
Mama said there’d be days like this… Days without an easy button and long nights with wet cheeks, runny noses and clinging arms. This week has been rough, and it’s only Tuesday. During hot yoga Sunday morning about halfway through the class I thought, “I’m feeling a little off. Definitely sluggish. Achy? Oh crap! Am [...]
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