You might as well put a revolving door on our house, because we have been visitor CENTRAL this Spring. It’s taken us some time to recover and reflect on our social season, but despite our exhaustion, our overall sentiment is: please come back. We can’t even begin to explain how much it meant to have… Read More revolving doors and stuffed dates
It’s been a week of milestones in the Frels household. Within a single week, we celebrated 10 years as a couple and 6 months as parents. And with only a little bit of effort, each milestone was recognized with its due significance. On April 20th, we enlisted our friend Mary Anne to spend the evening… Read More milestones and okonomiyaki
We love to read. Jason is a big fantasy series buff, and I’ll devour most any book with a solid recommendation or Goodreads rating. [Though these days, we’ve been sticking almost exclusively to expectant-parent content and French baby books.] My love for books is probably why I’ve never been able to say “no” to a… Read More reading and ratatouille
Living near family is probably one of life’s greatest gifts. We’ve been pretty lucky in that regard thus far… we have never been truly alone anywhere we have lived. We resided in the same state as Jason’s family in college, we had my older brother Andrew in D.C. with us, and we finally have Jason’s sister… Read More brothers and banana muffins
We love road trips. And boy have we had our fair share of them. We’ve made the journey from Texas to D.C. twice—once to move me in 2008, and once to move Jason in 2010—and did it all over again from D.C. to Denver in 2012. Next, we drove the entire South Island of New Zealand on our… Read More road trips and beef jerky
Sometimes it’s the small things that shine the brightest light in the darkness. We live in such strange times, friends… shootings in Orlando, bombs in Istanbul, and the surefire knowledge that it’s simply going to happen again. Just this week, I left the house to work offsite for the first time in months, and I was greeted… Read More hope and popsicles
