We started gluten free on Saturday. 3 days down, and I haven’t run screaming for the bread drawer or broken down and run for Dunkies. Saturday was hard, and I was hungry. Sunday was tough, and I was hungry. Today was…less tough. I’ve been focusing on simple foods: Slow Cooker chicken provencale (using chicken thighs instead…
After realizing he had a 8 out of 10 match on “signs you may be gluten intolerant“, my husband has agreed to do a gluten intolerance test by going 1 month gluten free. I’ve known about this overlap for a while (and mentioned it to him a couple years ago), but doing what is a…
I have an old pair of adult mittens. They weren’t mine to begin with, I think they belonged to my mom. They’re dark blue suede with fake lambswool on the edges and the cuffs and seams. My guess they’re from the 70’s or early 80’s. Somehow I ended up with these, and while I recall…
I’m 44. The fact that I’ve just bought a house with a 30 year mortgage, which means I’m probably not going to be able to retire until I’m 74 has not escaped me. The fact that I took a good chunk out of my retirement funds to help buy said house may seem like a…
Slogan stolen from Tim Gunn of Project Runway. As I mentioned, my new kitchen is not ideal. One frustration was a lack of places to store my pots and pans. I had a cabinet over the wall oven where I could stack pots and pans, but getting out the one I needed was a sometimes…
…and I didn’t expect it to be. I knew I was looking at the house with a bit of rose colored glasses before closing, but once we started upacking things we made a few realizations. Like the kitchen was designed by someone who DEFINITELY didn’t cook. Or at least didn’t cook well. A glass-top electric…
Closing complete, we have a new house! One of my favorite movies is Under The Tuscan Sun. Buying my new old house, I have remembered one of my favorite lines: “The trick to overcoming buyer’s remorse is to have a plan. Pick one room and make it yours. Go slowly through the house. Be polite, introduce yourself,…
That’s right, 33 contractor bags of garbage have gone out to the curb during our moving so far. More to come. 4 rooms nearly complete, and that’s including the attic and basement, the two worst areas of the house for cluttery crap. Way to go, us! Of course, this begs the question why the heck…
4 truckloads. That’s what the mover estimated it would take to move when she came through our house. 4 TRUCKLOADS?!?!?! nothing like having someone else with experience tell you objectively how much crap you own. The ruthlessness is not going as well as I’d hoped, because there is simply not enough time to be objective…
Change. We all do it, we all live with it every day. Sometimes it’s subtle, sometimes it reaches out and whomps you on the face. My husband and I were driving, and decided to go a different way than I normally would have. And I passed it. A very pretty colonial farmhouse with a for…