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May 2017 - My family and I bought a house! A relatively small, old, 3 bedroom 1 bathroom gorgeous perfect home. We're so lucky to have found it, and we're lucky to be able to create new memories here. The test of a good home for us - the sellers are upset the day we closed. It' just so beautiful, and now that we're into our first spring, we realize how much went into making it was it is. We're doing the best to maintain it and add to it!
The reason for continuing this online adventure is to mostly test and challenge myself. We have for the past 5 years joined a CSA that provides us with a hearty helping of vegetables of all kinds, many of which I have never heard about before. The goal of this summer is to COOK and become good at it!!! While using every single bit we get from our farm. Creating new recipes is going to be awesome. And having a little girl to help and teach about good foods is really exciting for me.
We no longer have our golden - she passed away last summer. It was a huge loss, and we still miss her. Maybe another one is in our future next year. But it's good to have the time not spent training a puppy.
Happy SUMMER!!!
May 2016- I'm jumping on the bandwagon and starting a blog. I don't expect anything really to come of it - but I do have my motivations for it. I have in the past, found a few articles/posts online that resonated with me. Made me feel like whoever was writing what they were (that I was reading) totally got it! Any one site doesn't provide me endless articles of pure gold - how could it? So the more the merrier. Having become more connected with who I am, where I am, and what I am over the past few years - along with accepting that I'm never not going to be a constantly moving part in the world - made me think that it might be time to reach out, write a bit about all that, and hopefully allow one or two people benefit by knowing that they are not alone.
I am currently living with my husband, golden retriever, and newborn baby in a 900 sq. ft. apartment. Not a cool apartment, in a cool city, where our substantial salaries could only afford us this in order to live our fabulous, fun-filled lifestyle... but one in the suburbs. When I imagined my life at 34 years old, I expected a house with a yard, a career that was not in flux, finished grad school (or my PhD.), and having won the lottery to afford many all inclusive vacations throughout the years (not to mention college) because I am never going to have a career that makes me millions.
The 'temporary' apartment allowed my husband and I to live together in between our places of employment. I travel an hour in the opposite direction my husband travels. The dog was part of the package when my husband married me, and the baby was a bit of a surprise a year and a half later. Our combined lives brought a few couches, pots and pans, beds, and a whole slew of crap together. Goodwill made a fortune off of us after we got married.
I am learning to be a minimalist, even though weekly I seem to accumulate more than I dump. I'm definitely not perfect, and likely never will be. Cooking in a small kitchen, working full time while commuting an hour each way, finishing grad school with a full time internship, trying to maintain a mostly vegan and vegetarian lifestyle without the processed crap, and keeping everything that makes me, me, without compromising my sanity, has been a challenge. But more than anything, I sometimes look around at our small quarters, and realize how much of a happy, healthy, home we have.
Maintaining a sense of humor, being mindful, telling stories, and keeping my sarcastic personality in check, have helped us survive! I hope sharing my thoughts, sarcasm, recipes and whatever else I feel like, helps someone else recognize, that your life doesn't always look like what others think it should, but it's what you have and it's time to find health and humor all around it!
May 2017 - My family and I bought a house! A relatively small, old, 3 bedroom 1 bathroom gorgeous perfect home. We're so lucky to have found it, and we're lucky to be able to create new memories here. The test of a good home for us - the sellers are upset the day we closed. It' just so beautiful, and now that we're into our first spring, we realize how much went into making it was it is. We're doing the best to maintain it and add to it!
The reason for continuing this online adventure is to mostly test and challenge myself. We have for the past 5 years joined a CSA that provides us with a hearty helping of vegetables of all kinds, many of which I have never heard about before. The goal of this summer is to COOK and become good at it!!! While using every single bit we get from our farm. Creating new recipes is going to be awesome. And having a little girl to help and teach about good foods is really exciting for me.
We no longer have our golden - she passed away last summer. It was a huge loss, and we still miss her. Maybe another one is in our future next year. But it's good to have the time not spent training a puppy.
Happy SUMMER!!!
May 2016- I'm jumping on the bandwagon and starting a blog. I don't expect anything really to come of it - but I do have my motivations for it. I have in the past, found a few articles/posts online that resonated with me. Made me feel like whoever was writing what they were (that I was reading) totally got it! Any one site doesn't provide me endless articles of pure gold - how could it? So the more the merrier. Having become more connected with who I am, where I am, and what I am over the past few years - along with accepting that I'm never not going to be a constantly moving part in the world - made me think that it might be time to reach out, write a bit about all that, and hopefully allow one or two people benefit by knowing that they are not alone.
I am currently living with my husband, golden retriever, and newborn baby in a 900 sq. ft. apartment. Not a cool apartment, in a cool city, where our substantial salaries could only afford us this in order to live our fabulous, fun-filled lifestyle... but one in the suburbs. When I imagined my life at 34 years old, I expected a house with a yard, a career that was not in flux, finished grad school (or my PhD.), and having won the lottery to afford many all inclusive vacations throughout the years (not to mention college) because I am never going to have a career that makes me millions.
The 'temporary' apartment allowed my husband and I to live together in between our places of employment. I travel an hour in the opposite direction my husband travels. The dog was part of the package when my husband married me, and the baby was a bit of a surprise a year and a half later. Our combined lives brought a few couches, pots and pans, beds, and a whole slew of crap together. Goodwill made a fortune off of us after we got married.
I am learning to be a minimalist, even though weekly I seem to accumulate more than I dump. I'm definitely not perfect, and likely never will be. Cooking in a small kitchen, working full time while commuting an hour each way, finishing grad school with a full time internship, trying to maintain a mostly vegan and vegetarian lifestyle without the processed crap, and keeping everything that makes me, me, without compromising my sanity, has been a challenge. But more than anything, I sometimes look around at our small quarters, and realize how much of a happy, healthy, home we have.
Maintaining a sense of humor, being mindful, telling stories, and keeping my sarcastic personality in check, have helped us survive! I hope sharing my thoughts, sarcasm, recipes and whatever else I feel like, helps someone else recognize, that your life doesn't always look like what others think it should, but it's what you have and it's time to find health and humor all around it!