Can I tell you a secret? I'm a terrible cook. I'm getting better the more I practice, but the truth is that I overthink everything and have no gut instincts when I'm cooking, and I have this uncanny ability to ruin any meal. Kind of pathetic. But my love for all things kitchen makes it…
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of the American Kennel Club for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Why You Should Let the AKC Help You Find Your Next Family Dog My husband said no, absolutely not, no way, no how-to a puppy for years. But after watching our girls bond…
When you enjoy the opportunity of getting undisturbed and sufficient sleep, you could see both long-term and instant impact on your health and overall well-being. You must get rid of your old mattress if you are forgetting exactly why you had invested in your current mattress. It is old enough to be chucked away. It…
I am counting down the days to my 30th birthday, and I couldn't be more excited! Truly! As I was brainstorming ways to celebrate here on the blog, I couldn't help but think that 30 lists of {30} items would be just about perfect for my type-A, list-making self. Join me for the next month…
I pretty much consider coffee to be one of life's greatest simple pleasures, and over the past year, that's evolved from a love of coffee in general to a love of lattes in particular. This article will show you how to froth milk without any special equipment. My husband surprised me with an inexpensive…
When "we" (meaning society as a whole) talk about pregnancy and miscarriage, we usually approach it from one of two angles—the heart-wrenching pain of a baby lost or the relief of a pregnancy that's made it through that "danger zone" into the second semester. Talking about the fear of miscarriage while actually in the first…
Many people have always wanted to learn a second language. Even though most of us have slogged our way through a few years of high school language classes, comparatively few are fluent in a language other than English, unlike European countries where learning a second, third, or even fourth language is de rigueur. Speaking another…
Email continues to increase as a mode of communication, with a 2011 report by The Radicati Group estimating that there were more than 3.1 billion email accounts worldwide! We've all heard the stories of the tone of an email being misinterpreted or misunderstood along with the warnings that you shouldn't send an email when you're…
While I was on maternity leave, I made lists of the things I wanted to share with you about life with a newborn, and I'm excited to do that now through this series: Notes from the Newborn Daze. Because I know not all of our readers are at this stage or interested in reading baby…
Nine months after we got married, Sean and I sold our condo, drove to Utah, where we knew no one, and bought a house. We found a church and jobs and started to make friends, but we'd left behind all of our family and the friends we'd grown up with. Neither of us is very…