Who does the laundry in your household? I do it in ours, and I don’t mind. I wash and fold the clothes, and Nick scrubs and sanitizes the toilets. I load the dishwasher, and Nick takes out the trash. It works for us. Friday is typically laundry day. I round up the clothes that inevitably [...]
Ever wonder how we spend a typical Tuesday? Well, wonder no longer. Check out my post for a Day in the Life series over at EAD Living. And while you’re there, find out how other bloggers spend their days — from DC to Texas to Nicaragua.
Since seeing Food, Inc. and reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, we’ve become more conscious of the food we eat — especially the meat we eat. We do not support factory farms that follow inhumane practices, which unfortunately are the source of most supermarket meats. And so we buy our meat — often [...]
What did we do with our only free Saturday in July? We went to the gym and ran errands and spent the remainder of the day in the kitchen. We turned chickpeas, roasted red peppers, and sun-dried tomatoes into hummus and slathered it onto warm whole wheat pita bread. We broke in our new Cuisinart [...]
Nick is in Pittsburgh today and tomorrow for work obligations, and so I have the house to myself tonight. I considered going for a run along my favorite trail, but instead I bought some goodies from the farmers market and came home to cook. Eating instead of exercising — you see where my priorities lie [...]
Quiet weekends at home are few and far between these days. But when we do stumble upon one, we make the most of it. Here are a few highlights from our first and only free weekend in June: Friday Night: Alfresco dining on buffalo burgers from Gearhart’s Meats, strawberries from Baronner’s Farm Market, and kolsch [...]
Who waits until the night before a cookout to assemble a grill? We do. Who finally decides to fill empty frames with photos just ten hours before house guests arrive? We do. Who has to make a run to the grocery store after midnight for an extra tub of whipped topping? We do — well, [...]
Did you enjoy the weekend sunshine as much as we did? It was all blue skies and bright sun and green grass in central Pennsylvania from Saturday morning waffles through Sunday night taco salad. We totally took advantage of the spring temperatures and added more green to our front porch garden. We planted peppers and [...]
We spent (almost) the entire weekend unplugged, save for visits to eBay to bid on an antique orange vase to display on our bookshelf and Etsy to search for an “All You Need is Love” print. So what did we do with all of our technology-free time? We organized our office space with help from [...]
My mom informed me last night that she hears from my brother who lives overseas more often than she hears from me. (Sorry, Mom! I’ll make it up to you during your visit this weekend.) So what has been keeping me busy? Running: Or, more truthfully, walking and stretching and strengthening. Last night I ran [...]