A Christmas tradition

My aunt used to make homemade donuts for Christmas and I think after you’ve had a homemade donut, every other donut pales in comparison. I emailed her a couple years ago and asked for the recipe, but I never got around to actually MAKING them because, well, things made with yeast kinda scare me.
But these [...]

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Someone’s been watching a little too much Paula Dean

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Oh, I am so not going anywhere

I had originally planned on flying to Chicago on Dec 25th and returning on the 30th, but then a few days ago I started to get a bad feeling about the weather. Now, I am usually NOT one to bail on things just because of "weather" but this was sounding REALLY bad. We saw a [...]

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Winter Storm Watch 3000: The Cleanup

So, my work got cancelled today (woot!) and we actually got out of the house and had lunch at a local diner (double woot!) but then we spent all afternoon SHOVELING OUR ROOF.
I didn’t even know this was something people did, but apparently when you have a house built in the 1950s with a flat [...]

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WTF? SNOW?

Here’s the thing. I grew up in Chicago and then lived in Madison, WI for a year after graduating college and part of the reason I LEFT the midwest and moved to Seattle was because of the snow. I just got sick of dealing with it. And it usually doesn’t snow too much out here, [...]

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Merry Christmas to me!

I am a little hesitant about posting this because I kinda want all these mugs to myself, but I picked up this cute little mug at Starbucks this morning (on sale!). Isn’t it the cutest? (It’s actually glossier (and thus less cute) in real life.)
I’m already working on my New Year’s resolutions (I swear [...]

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Happy Holidaze!!!

I’ve all but sworn off Christmas this year, but for some reason I cannot pass up an excuse to make Christmas cookies. I had just spent the previous weekend making 4 batches of cookies and toffee (that I had to throw out because it never congealed), but when my friend Katie (who has recently gone from [...]

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Jingle bells, shotgun shells…

This is the only decoration we’re putting up this year. It’s a little fiber optic tree decorated with shotgun shell lights we received as an early Christmas gift.
Beyond awesome.
(Thanks, M+H!!!!)

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Popping in to say hi!

I have all but abandoned my blog lately, and I’m still deciding whether I want to continue in the new year (I think I do, but possibly under a different format). My problem seems to be that I sometimes have absolutely nothing to blog about, and then alluvasudden I have SO MANY THINGS, but I [...]

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