A Pagan vegetarian wife and Jewish omnivore husband makin' it work!
Matt and I have been tossing around the idea of trying for a baby at some point, and considering my complete objection to a hospital birth unless something dire were to happen, we've been researching other options. I'm most partial to a homebirth, but I've found it rather difficult to find a homebirth midwife in my area, so we've been searching around for birth centers. One of them is about 30 … [Read more...]
We hosted Thanksgiving at our home this year, and I admit it was an absolute madhouse! My cousin and his family (six people total), Matt's coworker and his wife, and our former neighbor and his daughter all came over, so we had 12 people to cook for. And boy, did we cook! I wish I had captured pictures of everything we made, but I only got a few before people started to arrive and the … [Read more...]
Did I ever tell y'all that my workplace pays for a gym membership for those who want to join? The gym is not even a half mile away, and they include something called "LifeTime Bucks" or something like that to use towards one of three things. Since I wasn't really interested in childcare for obvious reasons, and my yoga classes (which are starting back up in mid-January) negate the need or want for … [Read more...]
We take a break from your regular Samhain in Salem programming to bring you a really interesting article I read this morning. I blame this interruption on Matt. In one fell swoop, he managed to weird me out about the honey on your average supermarket shelf and suck me into something known as CNN's Eatocracy. He knows how obsessed I am with food, especially food that comes from weird places or … [Read more...]
This was probably my favorite part of the whole trip. I’m trying to remember as much as humanly possible from our tour; there was just so much information! I hope y’all enjoy this virtual tour through the home and are someday able to see for yourselves. :) The House of Seven Gables was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne (as you’ll remember, the namesake for the hotel at which we stayed!) and … [Read more...]
All right, chugging right along! Maybe stalled at the station a bit, but hey, that’s how life goes. After a day of frolicking about Salem, taking in all the sights and the history and the revelry, we crashed at the Hawthorne Hotel, noted as one of the more haunted hotels in the city. Its 93 rooms were full the entire weekend we stayed there, and for good reason; the hotel is smack in the … [Read more...]
I turn 27 today. :) Hooray! Matt is currently just finished cooking us a fantastic dinner of spinach and ricotta ravioli with homemade rosemary butter sauce and sun-dried tomatoes, a delicious way to cap off his "amuse-bouche" (in quotes because, rather than the traditional single bite, it was more like 5 or 6, but I'll let him call it what he wants!) of a flaky pastry, roasted mushroom and … [Read more...]
I know that I let Samhain in a Week kind of slide away from me up to and through Samhain itself, and for that, I apologize. There was so much great information I wanted to share with you all that I didn't get the chance to. Fortunately, the wheel turns and a new year will come, so before you know it, I'll have another series and so much more delicious info for you! My absence was for a really … [Read more...]
