Whew, what a doozy of a week! If you read my last post, you’ll know that we had a loooong day on Friday that involved driving three hours’ south of here to where the company my husband works for is moving so that we could look at houses. It was a long day that ended in disappointment, but at least it gave us some concrete experience to draw from when it comes to deciding whether we’re going to move with the business or not. Here’s what we were up to the rest of the week, though: In the Kitchen I…

When planning when we would get married, Matt and I didn’t really think about anything other than getting married as soon as we could swing it, which meant getting married the Saturday after taking our college finals for the semester. What we didn’t realize was that having May 7th as our anniversary would mean that our anniversary, my mother-in-law’s birthday (on the 6th), and Mother’s Day would always fall right next to each other. It basically guarantees a really busy week every year, but it also guarantees a really exciting one! Here’s how that week looked this year. Note: There…

Well, we made it to May. April *kind* of feels like it both didn’t exist and like it existed TOO MUCH, if you know what I mean. (I’m sure you do.) Here in Northern Utah, the statewide pandemic restrictions lifted this week so that many businesses saw a “soft opening” on the 1st, like dine-in options, gyms, etc. (all with precautions, of course), and now the group gathering has been extended to include up to 20 people, rather than the 10 it was before. In our particular county, the numbers have looked especially good over the past week and a…

One thing that’s been encouraging in the few weeks since I started doing these is that even though every week FEELS like it’s the same as all the other weeks lately, I can at least see through these little updates that we are, in fact, making progress and learning new things and making good memories together. And one thing I know for sure about myself is that for my own well-being, it’s important for me to experience, notice, and celebrate progress. Note: There are affiliate links to the products I mention below, which means I may get a small commission…

Oh man, what an up and down week! For a long time, I felt like we had this quarantine-at-home thing DOWN, but this week, the whole never-leaving-the-house started to wear on us all. Couple that with the stress about our unknown future with Matt’s job situation and where we’ll be living in the next few months, and it turned out to be somewhat of a doozy of a week, until I finally just let it all out on Wednesday night. Note: There are some affiliate links in this post to the products I’ve mentioned. This means that if you click…

In the Kitchen I feel like I’m going through a mourning period in the kitchen. Before, I was baking batches of chocolate chip cookies every other day, trying recipe after recipe to see if I could narrow it down to a few favorites (I never really could); I was pinning quick bread recipes to dream up new uses for browned bananas and wrinkled carrots; I was dreaming of the cakes I would make out of The Baking Bible (aff link), which was a Christmas gift to myself I bought with some gift money I’d received. Now, ever since Matt’s celiac…

In the Kitchen I braved the world outside on Wednesday and went shopping at two different grocery stores, with the plan in mind of not having to go again for the rest of the month (or *maybe* going once for milk and produce and Diet Dr. Pepper…you know, the essentials). Neither store had toilet paper, and when I had Matt go to a third store on Thursday and he also couldn’t find any, it looks like we’ll have to do that other stop for sure since we’ll run out in about a week and a half. The stores were also…