Happy Monday! It was a big weekend of planning as we finalized our to-dos and must-sees for the Europe trip. Our strategy was to ask friends and family for advice first and foremost, but we also relied on an effective combination of guidebooks, TripAdvisor and Yelp to round out the itinerary. We all know that […]
Tidbits and Treats
Happenings
Thank you for the wonderful comments on my blogiversary post. You’ve put a huge smile on my face! And if you haven’t yet, you still have until tomorrow night to enter the giveaway! It has been a crazy week around here, so I thought I’d do a bit of a mishmash post to share what’s […]
Five Years of Blogging Bender {Giveaway}
Five years. Five years since I was a college junior, secretly reading food blogs instead of doing homework. Five years since I moved into my first apartment and said good riddance to dorm food. Five years since I decided to try whipped banana oatmeal and see what all the fuss was about. Five years since […]
Red Pepper, Basil and Parmesan Gougère Bites + Ellie Update
Inspired by our Parisian book club meeting this past Sunday, I decided that my potluck contribution would be French. I don’t have much experience with cooking French food (I was going to insert a joke about French fries, French onion soup and French toast here, but thought it might elicit a few groans), so I […]
Reading Between The Wines: The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
This weekend marked the second meeting of Reading Between the Wines. Our book selection this time around was a lot different than our first pick, but I love variety and jumping from young adult to historical fiction is pretty much my normal reading routine. Plus, I’d been wanting to read The Paris Wife by Paula […]
Spring Pinterest Partying + Karaoke
I took a short break from blogging this past week to enjoy a visit to a city you may have read about once or twice on this blog…Chicago! Officially, I was in town for a work conference, which was very interesting with a lot of great speakers. Unofficially, I arrived a few days early in […]
Sweets + Slap Bracelets: Ragnar Del Sol
I don’t even know where to begin but I’ll warn you, this post will be a long one! Ragnar Del Sol was a thrilling, challenging, exciting, nerve-wracking and unbelievably fun 36 hours of my life. The entire experience practically blew by from when we drove to the starting line at 3:00 am Friday morning to […]
A Different Kind Of Hustle
For two years, the end of February meant Hustle Up the Hancock. Bobby and I loved racing up 94 flights of stairs in 2011 and 2012. The reward was an unparalleled view of our favorite big city. Not to mention a pretty medal and the pride of knowing we’d achieved something pretty cool. It was […]