May is here and I am excited for a couple of reasons. + I am flying home in a couple of days and I am SO excited to see my family. It’s my niece’s (and god-daughter’ s) first communion and I am so thrilled that I can be there for...
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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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How in the world it is March already escapes my comprehension, but March is my birthday month and if that isn’t a reason to be excited than I don’t know what is. By the way, March is a crazy birthday month in general! I think I know someone with a birthday...
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February is here with more rain and wind. We’re getting a lot of it this time around and it mostly means, I will try to stay warm and dry this month. January was a little crazy with lots of things going on at work and some last-minute field work thrown in...
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For the Friday Five 2.0 Linkup with Running on Happy and Fairytales and Fitness, we’re sharing a gift guide for athletes. Some people are hard to shop for, but I dare to say that athletes are not those kinds of people. There is always something useful that you can get...
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It’s the time of wish lists and gift guides around the blogosphere and I personally enjoy these kinds of post. I know, I know, Christmas is not all about the gifts and I wish I was someone who would completely forego the Christmas shopping madness, but I also have to...
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And with that, NaBloPoMo and November are coming to a close. I am always amazed how fast the month goes by and how (relatively) easy it was to blog for 30 days in a row. If you participated in NaBloPoMo and made it through, congratulations! If you didn’t quite...
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I finally made a trip to Ikea a couple of weekends ago. It’s one of the places people love or hate (or so I heard), but I definitely fall in the former camp. I think Ikea has a lot of beautiful, affordable designs and while everybody can rather easily spot...
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