Usually, we are well into Lent by now, but to be honest, I haven’t minded the extra few weeks to prepare. This season was transformative to me last year, which has made me feel some pressure to “make sure” it is this year too. I’m trying to remember that all I can really do is […]

When we first moved into our house in 2016, we (as in Dave and his parents, since I was pregnant with Charlie!) painted almost every wall, switched out our dining area light fixture, and replaced the kitchen sink faucet. In 2017, we painted our front door, and in 2018, we did absolutely nothing but try […]

For our first two years of marriage, pizza was a last resort–an act of mild desperation when one of us had had a terrible day, and the last thing we wanted to do was prep and cook dinner. $8 with a coupon and 20 minutes later, we’d camp out on the living room floor (I’m […]

While I was in Texas over the holidays, I tried to articulate exactly what it is I love about old movies to my film director brother. I didn’t grow up watching them, so it isn’t nostalgia exactly, but ever since college when my roommates and I used to have Audrey Hepburn movie nights, they’re the […]

Based on the memes circulating the internet, January felt long for just about everyone, and while it certainly did for us, I don’t say that in a negative way. The holidays just feel so far in the past already! The past month held some transitions–adjusting to a new babysitter (and therefore work schedule), settling into […]

I’ve decided to simplify my monthly feast day posts this year, mainly to make sure I can get them done and posted in time :) Rather than sharing a broad overview of ways to celebrate lots of major feast days, I’m taking it home a little by sharing just the few we’ve chosen to focus […]

One of my January goals was to analyze my reader survey feedback, and what better way to hold myself accountable to that than scheduling a recap blog post? A few of my blogger friends have done this after surveys and I’ve always enjoyed reading it…partially, because I’m admittedly a little nosey (ha!) and partially because […]

I used to get almost all of my recipes via Pinterest, but I realized the other day that I’ve been turning to cookbooks a lot more over the last year. The cause, I think, was finding a few cookbooks I absolutely love and really do cook from (there are more cookbooks than I want to […]