Resolutions are for suckers. Reflections are for the sentimental. So I guess you can call me miss sensitive … because I’m about to get all sorts of reflective here. Despite everything that happened in between, it seems (according to my personal journal) that I spent the beginning of 2020 just as I ended it: with… Read More reflections and raclette
Chances are, our story is not dissimilar to your own. Over the course of a single weekend in March, our lives were turned upside down. It began on a Friday when I spent the day trying to get clients out of Argentina before the borders closed on them. That’s when we knew things were serious.… Read More confinement and chili
Another year, another Marian advent reflection. As you may remember, we were asked to share our parental reflections during our church’s Marian Lessons & Carols service last year. For some crazy reason, they asked us to do a follow up this year. (I guess they didn’t mind our irreverence after all!) Below is the full… Read More year two and holiday fudge
Somewhere along the way, we lose touch of the joys of summer. We grow up, we go to school, we get summer jobs or internships, and before you know it we’re sitting at our desks and watching the sunshine through our car windows, office windows, kitchen windows. Perhaps we find time to break away and… Read More summer and buffalo chicken dip
Spring was our season of travel. Which is why you haven’t heard from either one of us on the blog recently. We’ve been jet-setting for what feels like a month solid, and unfortunately none of our trips were together. The first foray was my two-week work trip to Mexico. This was the longest I had… Read More jet-setting and jalapeño cheese balls
Our favorite thing about hosting parties is making little things. Bite-sized cake pops, mini meatballs, handheld tarts, bitty bundt cakes, simple salad skewers – you name it, we’ve probably served it at a party. Sure, these little food items take way more work to prep than, say, an all-out buffet. But we can’t help it.… Read More little things and tea cookies
