Like I’ve mentioned before, Matt and I are still trying to refine our holiday traditions–we figure that the time to experiment with it all is now (before we start a family), so almost every holiday finds us trying out new things to see which traditions we like most. Last year, I made a fancy pot roast …
A St Patrick’s Day Green Feast
You know what I’ve decided? That I need to have more fun with holidays. What typically happens is that I wait until the day of the holiday to remember that it is a holiday, and then I decide that it’s not worth the effort to actually do anything for it. Or I just go along with …
V-Day: The Aftermath
Something that will never cease to amaze me about marriage is that you think you know your spouse pretty well, and then they’ll do something totally unpredictable that just makes you fall in love with them all over again. Partly just because it shocks the heck out of you. And I kind of like that. …
Happy Valentine’s Day – From Here to Forever
While I have to put up with the antics and awkwardness that is Valentine’s Day at a middle school, one thing at least will keep me sane today: The fact that I have my own Real-Life Valentine now . . . and forever. The fact that I don’t have to be wondering as I go through …
Accidental Christmas Traditions
I don’t know how other newlyweds handle their first couple of Christmases, but I’ll tell you how we did: we meticulously planned out every tiny little detail of how we would spend our Christmases together so that we could start many fabulous traditions that we would enjoy for years and years to come. NOT. What …
Christmas Card
Between all the parties we’ll be attending, the hot cocoa we’ll be sipping, and the naps we’ll [hopefully] be taking, there won’t be too much time for the blog until after Christmas. But, to send you off on a happy holiday note, here is the Christmas card we would have sent, had I actually taken the time to print it out. …
Dia De Gracias
Since I figured everyone else was doing posts with titles like, “Happy Thanksgiving” or “Day of Thanks,” I decided to be a rebel and say it in Spanish. Cuz I’m cool like that. (Not that I have anything against generic titles, of course. I just feel this inexplicable need to be different all the time. …
A “Hoot”enanny Halloween Party
Each year, my mom puts on the party of the year right before Halloween, each with a different spooky theme. This year’s theme? Owls. How cute is that? And how awesome are these cupcakes?! Amazing. We started off the festivities by making owl decorations out of cupcake liners and toilet paper rolls (and by we, I mean the …