Carrot & Cabbage Salad
Growing up we ate salad a lot. There weren’t many vegetables (actually none) that I would eat cooked, so salad was how I would get my vegetables. I would eat all of the lettuce first, and all the good stuff…
A Travel Guide for Raleigh, NC
We had a year filled with international weddings (in England and Bogotá) and home buying in 2017. That meant 2018 was a bit of a rebuilding year financially. And we got our puppy, Gimli so we didn’t do any traveling. To…
Goal Summary for January 2019
At the beginning of the year I made goals for 2019 and I did all of my goals for January! Books I read Rumors & Envy, both by Anna Godbersen. These books are part of a series she has written of turn…
Super Addicting Corn Dip
This corn dip is so stinkin easy, I’m not sure you can even call it a recipe. I usually mix it up on weekend afternoons when I don’t really feel like cooking but want to binge eat in front of…
7 Things to Do With Your Dog in the Raleigh Area
We had a year filled with international weddings (in England and Bogotá) and home buying in 2017. That meant 2018 was a bit of a rebuilding year financially and we got our puppy, Gimli so we didn’t do any traveling. To…
Healthy Cauliflower & Black Bean Burritos
As a kid I didn’t eat a lot of vegetables. I just didn’t like most of them. I’ve always loved raw cauliflower. It’s soft, but still crunchy and has a pretty benign flavor. But I would never have eaten it…
A Checklist of Goals for 2019
I’m not normally one to make New Years resolutions. Most people say things like “get fit” or “be more present”. Those things are hard to measure. Without data how will you know you’ve achieved your goal? That’s why I haven’t…
What I Was Loving in 2018
Our Puppy I could not start a post like this without first mentioning our Gimli boy. We adopted our teenie tiny pup in August, and life has not been the same since. Watching him grow and change while becoming integrated…
3 Christmas Card Designs
I usually make a large batch of Christmas cards over the summer, which give me plenty of time to make many different designs as I methodically craft enough to check off names on my Christmas card list. This year that…
Potato Soup – An Easy Slow Cooker Recipe
This week we got about a foot of snow in Virginia. The first thing I do when it’s cold and snowy is get something in the crock pot. Nothing’s better than comfort food. Especially doesn’t take a lot of effort.…
