Californian fall • Gingerbread coffee • reading in bed • on our walk • Thanksgiving table • crocheting • Thanksgiving dinner • rolls • 1st of Advent •
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1.) It’s the time of the year where I bring out all the Vanilla candles. I just love the smell filling up our apartment! 2.) I’ve been using the Phonto app for a while and just love all the different features and different fonts! And the best part: it’s free! If you...
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I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving yesterday! J and I hung out at home for the most part, watched movies (+ Friends reruns!), went for an early afternoon walk and then started cooking our own little Thanksgiving feast! We roasted a hen with stuffing, made homemade mashed potatoes...
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Today, I am thankful for… … my love and best friend J, who swept me off my feet so many years ago and who gets me and still makes me smile every day. … my supportive and loving family (only an ocean away). For my parents who raised me with love...
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Hello friends! It’s time again for another ‘Foto der Woche‘ and even though this might be no photographic master piece, this is undoubtedly my Glücklichmacher #47: Trader Joe’s Gingerbread Coffee (taken November 25, 2014) I can’t tell you how excited I was when I finally (!) spotted my beloved Gingerbread coffee in the...
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With Christmas only a month away (WHAT?) and the holidays fast approaching, it’s time for my annual Christmas cards roll call. If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know what this is all about. I love sending snail mail to people and would love to put...
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Somtimes when my alarm goes off and when cold air is greeting me outside of the warm covers and it is still dark outside, all I want to do is I pull the blanket over my head and go back to sleep. It’s hibernation time for many animals. Why can’t...
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fall • green been soup • tea time • Greta • steel cut oats • one pot meal • surprise mail • Thai food • Farmers Market •
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Today it was time for J and I to attend our obligatory annual football game – the Causeway Classic – again. It’s the annual Football Game between UC Davis (Aggies) and Sacramento State University (Hornets) and it’s named after the Yolo Causeway, which is a 3.2-mile long elevated highway over the Yolo Bypass floodplain that...
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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that in the last two years during NaBloPoMo, I started a little series about German idioms. Idioms are awesome in every language and the more idioms you know in a foreign language, the closer you’ll get to perfecting your...
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