A weeknight dinner in the life of the Frels family.A three-act play. ACT 1 4:45pm. The floor of the family bathroom. Elizabeth is in the bathroom with Lilia and Arleigh. They have all just completed a successful afternoon of general house destruction and are now joining Lilia as she embarks upon her daily constitutional. She… Read More choas and pork chops
For the first time in what feels like forever, we found ourselves on the threshold of Easter Alleluias coming to pass. We are sharing our favorite lemon tart recipe in celebration.… Read More alleluias and lemon tart
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
