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This year has been real­ly hard for our gar­den. We lost pret­ty much all our squash, cucum­bers, zuc­chi­ni, water­mel­ons, can­taloupes, and cau­li­flower, and our toma­toes and pep­pers did not pro­duce as much as they did last year. And our corn… Read moreStill har­vest­ing!

Last week­end, we plant­ed a lot of bulbs on the side of our house. We are hop­ing to have beard­ed iris­es bloom in the spring and saf­fron in the fall. We are going to har­vest our own saf­fron threads once… Read moreBulb plant­i­ng time

I’m cur­rent­ly tak­ing a sewing class at JoAnn Fab­rics. I thought that since I’ve been teach­ing myself and learn­ing as I go (and as I make mis­takes), it would be good to take a class to fill in the blanks.… Read moreSewing class

We have two dogs — a maltipoo (Mal­tese poo­dle mix), and a cock­a­chon (cock­er spaniel, bichon frise mix) — and they are ter­rif­i­cal­ly adorable. Zoe and Wash have been part of our fam­i­ly for over a year now. Wash had… Read moreGluten free dogs

As promised in my pri­or post, here is the recipe for the gluten free amaret­to cake I made last week­end. 1 box dev­il’s food cake mix (Bet­ty Crock­er makes a gluten free one) 1 3.9 oz pkg instant choco­late pud­ding… Read moreAmaret­to cake recipe

A few weeks ago, some friends and I par­tic­i­pat­ed in a triv­ia night fundrais­er for Metro Luther­an Min­istry. Part of the evening was a dessert auc­tion, and one of the desserts was a “boozy amaret­to cake.” We did­n’t win —… Read moreGluten free amaret­to cake

… I’m back. Pret­ty sure no one has noticed my absence, and that’s fine by me. I’ve spent the last year ful­ly embrac­ing the domes­tic life. I took up sewing, I’ve dived deep into gluten-free cook­ing, and we spent a… Read moreafter more than a year hia­tus…

With­in a month or two after start­ing law school, I was at a career ser­vices thing, and they spent a minute stress­ing that the degree we were pur­su­ing is a Juris Doc­tor, not a Juris Doc­tor­ate.  Although I under­stand that… Read moreJD

17 days.  Yes.  17.  And then I will be mar­ried.  I’m both excit­ed and ter­ri­fied, nat­u­ral­ly.  Prepa­ra­tions are com­ing togeth­er, but I’m hav­ing trou­ble under­stand­ing how I’m sup­posed to focus on work while this is going on.  If I had… Read more17 days

This will be a short post, as I have to be at work in sev­en hours, mean­ing that I have five hours to sleep, but I want­ed to say a quick word about bal­anc­ing work and life.  In the legal… Read morework-life bal­ance