Posted in Everyday, Living In Community on Jul 24th, 2011 No Comments »
For the last seven or eight years we’ve hosted a BBQ once a week at our home. You bring something to grill and a dish to share, we provide the deck, an awesome music mix, and s’mores for the fire pit. Four or five years ago a little guy we love (who’s not so little [...]
Posted in Everyday on Jul 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Bryan and I used some money we were gifted at Christmas this year to buy new bikes for ourselves. The kids have always had wheels, but we were getting left in the dust as we walked along behind them on the river trail. A couple weeks ago we dusted them off for the first time [...]
Posted in Everyday on Jun 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Recently, Ruthie came home from school with a 8.5×14 sheet of construction paper and was tasked with folding it up and seeing how many books we could stack on top of it. Thomas really got into this, and emptied my bookshelf. It holds at least eight books! TWENTY books! A stack of books as tall [...]
Posted in Everyday, Ruthie on May 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Last night we did a ZugHaus cleaning bonsai together. When we were done, Ruthie decorated the table with flowers from our wisteria vine and invited us all to take a photo. What a great idea!
Posted in Everyday on May 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Yesterday on our way home from a weekend retreat in the mountains, our car broke down on I-90 in the middle of nowhere. Here’s a list of events as I remember them: As we left Sundcadia lodge, The Teenagers we had with us said they were hungry. Ice cream seemed the best remedy, so we [...]
Posted in Everyday on May 20th, 2011 3 Comments »
This box is always so boring. Does it mean NOTHING that I come from Sweden? And while we’re at it, what’s up with my Nordic heritage? Filipina’s get to wear this and Mexican beauties get to wear this, but me? I get to wear THIS. Or maybe THIS. Go Vikings! *eyes cross*
Posted in Everyday on May 16th, 2011 No Comments »
My friend Jenny turned me on to a few photo apps that I’m having way too much fun with. This one is called Percolator. It makes me look like I’m made out of bubbles, and now I want to see them bouncing around inside the picture frame. Don’t be surprised if my next animated video [...]
Posted in Everyday, Food & Drink on May 15th, 2011 2 Comments »
Meal planning has been a bit exhausting for me lately. I’m not feeling the love like I used to, and the details are getting lost in my brain. I end up making several extra trips to the store each week because I forget one thing I need to make dinner complete. And of course you [...]
Posted in Everyday, Introspect on May 8th, 2011 1 Comment »
May you enjoy the bounty of mimosas, hand crafted cards of love, and a day filled with no whining. HAHAHAHAHAHA! *wipes tear* Just kidding about that last part. Can you IMAGINE? But seriously. Sometimes I feel like Nancy Botwin, shrouded in a haze of smoke in the corner of a motel room, shouting at the [...]
Posted in Everyday on Apr 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Tonight we went to a birthday party for our our friend, Paul. But whatever about that, because he’s married to my friend Jenny, who puts BACON in her mac and cheese!
Posted in Everyday, Things on Apr 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
There was so much sinus pressure in my head that thick yellow mucus oozed out the tear ducts in my left eye. Someone in this house (not me) wiped a booger on my shower curtain, and now there are tiny sugar ants feeding on it. You’re welcome.
Posted in Everyday on Apr 1st, 2011 2 Comments »
Every year I get cocky that we make it through the Winter without getting sick. And every Spring I end up losing a month of my life as the funk circles its way around the ZugHaus 2 or 3 times. In 2008 I had Influenza with a side of pneumonia, and every year since then [...]
Posted in Everyday, Living In Community, Seen, Heard, Said on Feb 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
Last night Bryan and I stepped into the bar of a fancy schmancy steak house to dine with the common people, but happy hour was in full force, and all the tables were taken. Directly in front of the entrance was a large round table suitable for about eight people, and the server asked if [...]
Posted in Everyday, Ruthie, Thomas on Feb 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Everyday on Jan 29th, 2011 No Comments »
Wednesday was a no jacket day! In Seattle! In January!
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