It has always been my tradition that the weekend after Thanksgiving I have started preparing for my favorite time of year! I love Christmas – I always have. I loved it so much I delayed being born SIX days after my due date so I could be a Christmas baby. (I overshot by a day, but I’m okay with that.) So far I have prepared for Christmas by cleaning the house. :-) I am still unpacking, but I think I’ve…
Editor’s note: Check out the updated recipe, with more pictures and some refinement after 3 years of making these pumpkin pies. This year, Paul has really gotten into homemade pumpkin pie. He’s made three pies already! He was going to make a fourth pie, but I think he ran out of time. Here is the process he followed. The best pumpkins to use are pie pumpkins. They are fairly small, about 2 lbs each, and can be bought at the…
Last week Paul mentioned that his brother’s birthday was today (the 15th – I guess technically yesterday). So, I suggested we invite Jeremiah over for dinner and cake. I called Jeremiah earlier this week to ask him what he wanted to eat. (In my family, you always got to pick what to have for dinner on your birthday. Half of my birthdays, I didn’t get a choice – we just had leftover turkey. The other birthdays, I requested beef-a-roni. Anyways,…
So remember this? Well, tonight Paul and I FINALLY hung the stuff on the walls and I cleaned the living room, and decided to get some pictures! I hope you like the new look! Here is a picture of my living room before I started (more pictures if you follow the link above): I have been working on it off and on over the past 6 months. Here is the (almost) finished product (haha, I feel like this is Extreme…
And I made it! Not that I was worried about THAT. I am tired today though. It doesn’t help that my new office has a counter-height desk, so I’m having to climb in and out of my chair all the time. I’m sure I’ll get used to it with time. :-) My goal is to weigh myself in two months – September 2nd – and see if all this walking is helping. If not, then I’m going to have to…