Archive | April 2015

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Gratitude Gems: Home Is…

Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! We’re moving at the end of this week! I can’t believe how the month has flown by. I’m quite excited for us to get into the new place and make a new home, particularly because we visited a […]

A Nerdy Goal

  You know that scene where Beast presents Belle with his library and she’s overcome with wondrous amazement?  Ever since I saw that moment as a little girl I felt a kinship with Belle – a mutual understanding of just how wonderful it is to get lost in a good book. Since I don’t have […]

Gratitude Gems: Location, Location, Location

Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! For the month of April, we’re in between rentals so we’re staying at my brother’s house with his family, and they sure live in a beautiful part of the city.  Out their back door, their yard backs onto […]

Gratitude Gems: Feeling Pretty

Welcome to my new weekly gratitude feature, Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! Starting this feature today, of all Mondays, seems particularly poignant.  Today was the quintessential Monday for me… I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and I was achy all over, […]

32nd Year, 32 New Goals

I’m 31!  Yep, my birthday was almost a month ago already, which just goes to show how time flies when we’re super busy!  We just moved at the end of March, so since the new year our lives have been consumed with finding a new place, getting things at our old place in order, organizing, […]

Try 31 New Recipes – Wrap Up

Well, I didn’t try 31 new recipes, but I did try 14!  Plus I tried a few new recipe creations using 2 new veggies – Kale Attempt #1 and #2, and Eggplant Attempt #1 – that I didn’t count towards my total. I think I didn’t meet this goal because I don’t often use recipes.  I’m lucky […]