Hey, hey! How was everyone’s Memorial Day Weekend? My recap comes a bit late, but we had a nice, relaxing weekend and the weather was beautiful (which means, not too hot!). On Saturday was J and my 11th anniversary (*gasp*, I know! I can’t believe we’ve been married for that...
Read more
I am linking up with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for the Friday Five 2.0 Linkup because the topic for today is food and that’s the perfect topic for me to talk about Trader Joe’s again. I haven’t shared my Trader Joe’s* buys in a while and since...
Read more
Trader Joe’s* had some awesome seasonal items again this year. I always love to browse their holiday shelves. They always have a bunch of Christmas goodies from around the world like German Lebkuchen and Christmas Stollen, Italian panettone, advent calendars, fancy chocolate, and quite a few nice non-edible gifts. I bought a...
Read more
We Germans, we like our potato side dishes. I don’t know about you, but I basically grew up on potatoes. I love potatoes in pretty much any form and I am trying to find more ways to incorporate them into our meals. Potatoes sometimes get a bad rep, but they’re...
Read more
Today I am linking up with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness for Friday Five 2.0 Linkup. Ah, the holidays. Let’s talk about the holidays. This seems like such a good idea right now, doesn’t it? The holidays comprise Thanksgiving AND Christmas, right? I love and embrace both and...
Read more
Hello, hello. Here’s another edition of ‘What I bought at Trader Joe’s’. I know you were waiting for this, weren’t you? I can’t say enough good things about Trader Joe’s* and if you don’t have one near you, I am truly sorry. I try to eat a healthy and balanced...
Read more
I am back with another installment of “What I bought at Trader Joe’s”. My weekly grocery run usually leads me to 3-4 different stores, but I’d say that I do the bulk of my shopping at TJ’s. Some items I could also get at the regular supermarket, but comparing prices...
Read more
A re-tweet of one of Lora‘s older posts about the importance of iron for runners prompted me to tell you about my personal experience with iron deficiency anemia many year ago. It was not directly related to running or at least, I think it wasn’t, but maybe it was? Not sure, just...
Read more
