Christmas Family Traditions: Decorating Gingerbread Houses
Sunday, December 25th, 2011With the lebkuchen baked, cut and assembled into a readily waiting village of houses, we were all set for the fun: decorating! A family Christmas Eve tradition with my family growing up was to go to 4pm Mass, then come right home for a quick dinner and then the highlight of the evening–gingerbread house decorating! [...]
The Great White
Monday, February 28th, 2011I don’t know why people are so frightened of Maine winters. Yes, it’s cold… but it’s winter! Bundle up and you’ll be fine! I have been loving this, my first Maine winter, mostly because of the abundance of beautiful, sparkling white snow!! After a fairly long stretch of no snow, during which the snow mounds [...]
A Raw/Vegan Feast with Friends
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011A few nights ago, we went to a dinner party with some friends we met through yoga. We love dinner parties! Being vegan (Garrett) and vegetarian (me), it is sometimes tricky to have dinner parties at other people’s houses, since unless they too are vegetableatarians, they may not be familiar with how to cook a [...]
Attitude of Gratitude… with a little help from my friends.
Friday, December 10th, 2010Thank you, Beatles. And thank you, friends. Lately, I’ve been working hard to keep my attitude of gratitude in the forefront of my mind. The reasoning is well stated in this quote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough. It turns denial into ACCEPTANCE, chaos into ORDER, confusion [...]
New Heights, New Friends
Friday, July 16th, 2010We’ve been living in Maine for just over a month and we are settling in nicely. The Fourth of July we went on a gorgeous hike up Bald Mountain with some new friends–Leslie and Paul. I met Leslie first at the Parent & Child yoga class at Central Street yoga in Bangor; she was one [...]
A breath of fresh air… and some home-grown veggies!
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010My blog has certainly taken a turn from nature-outdoorsy-crafty-yoga-chick blog to a new-momma-with-a-baby blog, and I apologize to any readers (assuming there are any!) who couldn’t care less whether I dress my darling Maddie in cloth diapers or banana leaves to keep her “compost” from composting our house and yard. For you tree-hugging, natural-living, nature-loving, [...]
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sunday, February 28th, 2010I just wanted to write a quick thank you to everyone who responded to my last post about my daughter Madeline’s hearing loss. If you didn’t read it, you can find it HERE. I am so moved by the amount of love and support and the positive messages that have poured forth since my posting [...]
Hilarious Article About Motherhood
Sunday, January 25th, 2009One of my friends with children sent me this article, and I just had to share!! As many of you know, my husband Garrett and I hope to have children sometime relatively soon. We can’t wait to be parents! We both know that there is surely SO MUCH we could never even imagine that will [...]
