Teaching

I just realized I haven't posted in almost 2 months. Work takes up a lot of my life right now.

It is early March

And since I live in DC, that means crocuses and daffodils, not another month of snow.

Hunger Games

This is what ate up the last two weeks of my life. It was like an addiction. When I wasn't reading it I just wanted to be reading it, and when I was reading it there was nothing else in the world. It was like I was 10 again, when books would suck me in and spit me out when they were good and ready.

Was anyone else irritated with the ending? For the whole Katniss-Peeta thing to be resolved in like two sentences after an entire book's worth of OH MY GOD ANGST AND HURT AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN? Dissatisfying.

News from home

• Colin made some shelves for our baking stuff, which I'll tell you all about over on Beautiful/Delicious.
• Kirby continues to be photogenic.

• I got a cake stand.

• Hazel now wears glasses. 

These are my people and I love them

Freshest bagels

Colin took it upon himself to learn how to make bagels.

I remember being disgusted with the state of the bagels in Minnesota when we moved there, but that was so long ago that I could hardly remember what a bagel was supposed to taste like. This has been a wonderful reminder.

1 year to the date (and four days late)

Four days ago was the day that Raleigh died. I was too busy to post on that day, but it has been sitting like a deadweight in the back of my mind for a week. It's been a whole year. And -- it's only been a year? It feels like forever ago I had that wonderful, stubborn, goofy beast in my life.

Muy elegante

Thanks Ella, for the super sweet water bottle thingy.

Get in the Christmas spirit

I love it when Stephen is home because I get to do things like make mulled mead, listen to Christmas music for 4 hours straight, and make decorative strands of cranberries and popcorn.

Yesterday Stephen and I indulged in all of these luxuries. We also bought a tree, decorated it (after Colin got back from a weekend in New York), made a wreath, and made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I'm now way behind on Co-Madres work, but it was worth it.

Thanksgiving at home

Okay, I posted more pictures to Facebook, but I still like to feature some pictures here.

I went home for Thanksgiving for the first time in 6 or 7 years. I brought my boyfriend home with me for the first time. We had so much good food. Also, we had Thanksgiving dinner on Friday so Elise and Becca and parts of their families were able to join us. That was really wonderful. Anyway, here's the pretty:


Mmm, pie.

That's my Colin, doing what he does. He probably left that coffee cup half full on an end table. Just a guess.

And there she is. The star of the show:

I got time with my girls. So that makes everything else a little bit better.