Last night’s dinner was special. It was partly because of the recipe, which tasted just like something from southern Italy. Scott and I went to Italy for our honeymoon, and we paid careful attention to dinner while we were there (and breakfast and lunch and gelato). Om nom nom. We like food. Scott is great at…
Category: Things That Make Me Happy
Rocky Mountain High
Last week finished with a bang in addition to July 4th fireworks. I had the pleasure of going to Denver to meet the son of one of my awesome college roommates. He’s two and a half (the son, not the roommate, who is female), and it was high time that we met. Plus, I wanted to hang out…
Back to Work (At Home)
Thursday was painting the porch day (one coat then, one on Saturday, only a tiny bit of trim left to paint before the job is complete). I’ll post pictures when the project is done. But the truly exciting part of the week was Friday, which turned into painting painting day. “Painting painting” day is not to…
Family Vacation
Family vacation ended a few short days ago, and all of that happy laziness that got stored up made the end of the week pretty great, too. There’s a lot more happy lazy time in general now than there was a month ago, but there’s something different about vacation laziness. In this case, we were…
Berries and Doggies and More, Oh My!
Last week included some berries from a local farm. They were delicious berries, so they deserve a shout-out. See what I mean? [Okay, you can’t see that they’re delicious, but you can see that they’re beautiful and bright and such.] Raspberries are my favorite, and add to that a day of sunshine and happy dogs…
Coming Home
There’s a lot to say about the last month. Things were crazy and full of people and events and details. My favorite part of all of that looked like this: And then things were pretty relaxed for a week or so. You never want to get too relaxed though–might make you soft or something. So…
Hiking and Other Things
That title doesn’t have enough excitement in it, but it will have to do for now, because if I changed it to “Hiking and Other Things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” I might lose all respect for myself. I blame my mom for that. She loves grammar. Anyway, here’s a really good story (in my opinion, which is totally biased):…
Small, but valuable. 