Month: April 2017

April favorites 

1. I was looking for a sleeve for my iphone (since my old one didn’t fit anymore and was also falling apart) and I came across this super-soft and cute CORNMI leather pouch. It has three card slots two openings to hold your phone and cash. It also has four...

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Currently | April

  looking forward to seeing and spending time with my whole family and eating all the food in  a couple of weeks — hooray! reading No one cares about crazy people: the chaos and heartbreak of mental health in America by Ron Powers. Oh boy, I am in for a...

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5 ways to pamper yourself

  Self-care is so important and I am a big proponent of some pampering. Especially when we’re stretched thin during a very hectic time in our lives or when we’re in race training. Sometimes pampering yourself can be a matter of an hour to yourself. Here are my favorite ways...

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April Link Love

In an effort to organize my monthly link up posts into a more easily digestible format, I’ll try and split up my links into categories from now on.  Let me know if that is helpful.   Around the Interwebs Please stop forcing your favorite TV show on me Have you...

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Recipe | Sweet Plaited Yeast Bread

Here’s the recipe that I promised you yesterday! I think I have shared the recipe before, but it’s been a while and I thought I would share it again for my new readers. Like every good German, I am slightly obsessed with bread (surprise!) and if you’ve been around this...

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Our Easter Weekend

Hi friends, how was your Easter weekend? I hope it was lovely! I have to be honest with you: if my Mom hadn’t reminded me that it’s Easter weekend, I probably would have completely blanked on it this year. Oops. I blame the fact that neither Good Friday, nor Easter...

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A re-introduction of me

If you’ve been around, you know who I am, you know my story. I’ve blogged for close to 14 years *gasp* and it seems silly to write an introductory post, but my readership has considerably changed over time (and so have my posts) and I haven’t really introduced myself (or...

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Hello April 

We’re entering the 2nd quarter of 2017. Welcome. Stay a while. April has started out with gorgeous spring weather, lots of sunshine and warm temperatures here in Northern California (although, some more rain is still in the forecast). I’ve been enjoying the early morning sunbeams in my kitchen and not having...

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