I’ve always disliked that song “Mary Did You Know” (sorry if you love it!) It plays this time of year on repeat, and I switch the channel whenever I hear it. This is partly because it is pretty cheesy (see also: Christmas Shoes), but it is also because I feel that it is a rendering…
Robbed
“This season is a thief” I read online somewhere. A thief of daylight, of the sun, a thief of warmth, green. Even here in the deep South, with the seventy degree anomalies sprinkled in among the brisker winter days, I feel a bit desperate as the winter solstice comes on. It is dark before my workday…
Chilly Willy
It’s been a while. Two weekends ago I went to Charleston – I have a draft post on that weekend trip that I only ever get tiny snippets of time to write and apparently I will never finish. Last weekend, family came to town and we went camping-ish – we weren’t far from home and…
I Guess This Will Be A Weekend Blog Now
This morning, it was crisp. The Professor got a fire going in our wood-burning fireplace, then built the king bed we just bought after 2.5 years of sleeping on a mattress on the floor and it makes our room feel so much less grad school! Now, of course, I want a bed skirt, king-sized duvet…
Sunday Morning Meal Planning – Chilly-ish Edition
Yesterday I woke up well before the crack of dawn. 3:30 am was the start to my day, unfortunately, but it meant I got up and running early. I had three loads of laundry folded before anyone else was awake . . . although it was last week’s clean laundry, which had sat in a Clean…