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A lot of us are already lamenting how fast the summer has gone—myself included. June is already over.When did that happen? Who authorized this? Today, July 1, I’d like to pose the following challenge: Take this summer by the tail and ENJOY IT. It’s not passing you by, it’s happening. Right now. What would it look like to seize the summer, exactly the way you wish you had, at the
My friend Molly wrote a post this week about a conversation we had, in which we talked about our feelings toward homemaking. She posed the question: Are you ready to reclaim the term “homemaker”? It got me thinking, for all the time this topic has spent all up in my brain, I haven’t actually written about it here. Silly, eh? Thank you, Molly, for the friendly (and probably unintentional) kick
This week has been full. I’m getting ready to head to Colorado for a week for some high quality sister time (and lots of play time with this little nugget). On top of a short work-week and lots of projects, presentations and social time, it’s been a whirlwind that’s gone by too fast. Amid the excitement, today looks like juggling priorities and staring down a to do list that can’t
I’m fresh from my first camping trip of the season, and I want to talk to you about it. There are people in the world who believe camping should be completely primitive, using leaves for toilet paper and packing only food that can be cooked over a fire, i.e. hot dogs all day, or something you hunted/fished/foraged along the way. Creature comforts? Pah. You will sleep on the ground, and
My last post about the KonMari method sparked interest in a lot of you, so I’m back with another update on my Great Purge! (Here’s the first one, in case you missed it.) I wasn’t kidding when I said that book got me fired up about tidying. I catch myself wishing, often, that I could stop working and stop doing everything so I can just finish the purge already. But
Smoothies are everywhere, right? Since people started throwing veggies and greens in there, it’s turned into a health craze that everybody and their mother has tried. There are a zillion and one recipes for smoothies…however, I find that recipes make me less pumped to make a smoothie. For whatever reason, a smoothie recipe generally makes me feel bored and limited and boxed in; I can’t explain it. Today’s post will
This post is part of a series called What’s for Dinner?, in which I invite my favorite bloggers, business owners and online personalities to share with you their own go-to recipes, the favorite meals, snacks, drinks they make over and over again. You’ll get to meet some of my online friends, and we’ll all get some new (fantastic) recipes to try! I think of Keelie as a precious auntie to
Snapshot is a periodic series about what’s going on in my life right now—what I’m eating, reading, doing, loving, and my favorite links from around the web. This week’s snapshot is going to be a little different, because I’m not in the mood for the usual eating/reading/doing/loving thing right now. This will be a more accurate, because right now, my life is looking different than usual. I’m getting ready to
I got this book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, in the mail late in the afternoon one day last week, and dropped everything so I could read it in the bathtub. I finished it later that night, and was immediately more amped than I have ever been to declutter my house, from top to bottom. I will briefly back up to preface the rest of my story with the
Hiiii! I happened to find a post-it note today that said blog post for next spring—deviled eggs without a recipe. How lucky that I happened upon it today, of all days, when spring has sprung, and on the eve of Easter weekend no less! I actually make deviled eggs all year, because they are delicious and are an egg-cellent way to use up extra eggs. (Get it? Get it? I
