Holiday season is always insane for me, so I haven’t been able to update as much as I did before the frenzy that is Christmas descended upon us. In a way, I’m sad to see it go, but I’m happy to be getting back to the normal groove of things. Tom and I both had, surprisingly, good times with our respective families. This year was a far less ( Read more... )

Holiday season is always crazy, isn't it? I know things have certainly been a madhouse for me and mine since the fuss of Thanksgiving settled in. The entire family has somehow managed to come down with a charming case of bronchitis and is thus enjoying a stay with misery until the antibiotics work their will and get rid of this illness fiasco ( Read more... )

Holy cow, ya'll, I am five minutes from crashing. I haven't slept in twenty-four hours and I've driven a total of seven hours so far, back and forth between Tom and I's house, the airport, and my dad's. We got a rather upsetting call last night from my step-mother around 11PM. Her grandmother was diagnosed in the late stages of a very unpleasant ( Read more... )

I've been up to my nose in dust for the last two hours, filing through my Grandmother and mother's old recipe books for a traditional cranberry sauce recipe. It's stupid and I'm not an overly emotional person by any means, but reading Memaw's handwriting, how on certain recipes she would scratch my name beside the dish when it was something she ( Read more... )