Thank you + Details

Thank you all for your sweet comments, congratulations, and for putting up with the "horrible return-from-oblivion" post. :) We appreciate your love and excitement so much!

So, for the details. Baby is due October 15th, which means it gets to be born in the midst of a beautiful DC fall and which also means it gets to gestate through the entire long and I'm sure incredibly hot DC summer. So I'll be sweating bullets, but at least it will be cozy.

I've been (thankfully) feeling really good so far. Very little nausea - only a tiny bit in the morning until I eat, at which point I am totally fine - and my other symptoms have been equally mild. Hooray!

Other than that, we are just super excited. We are on a quarter system at school, so I'm hoping to sneak in the first set of finals right before Baby's arrival, and I'm planning on taking the second quarter off for the most part (save one required class). It works out rather perfectly.

So I guess that's about it. :) Any other questions?

In other news, we took an incredibly quick trip up to Philly from Thursday afternoon-Friday afternoon. I almost got teary when we pulled into the city. Man I love that place. Three cheers for my sister-in-law going there and carrying on the Philadelphia love!

The Return

I know. It's been nearly 4 months post-post. And now I just show back up? I'll try to make it worth your while.

a) The weather is now gorgeous. It is supposed to hit 90 today. This means walking downtown to the Cherry Blossom Festival and having picnics and going on bike rides. It also means the Phillies destroyed the Nats on Monday, and that we get to see them repeat it tomorrow night.

b) I'll be interning at Education Pioneers this summer. It was a long and hard decision between that and other perhaps more glamorous-to-business-school-students offers, but I am SUPER excited to get to do something I love (marketing) in a field about which I am passionate (urban education). It worked out particularly well because I will get to stay in DC this summer, important because of...

c)

AND

:)

Vegetable Soup and Beyond

Vegetable Soup. Home Fries. Veggie Frittata. Biscuits.

I've been sick slash have 4 finals in 24 hours. In light of that, these are all things that have been prepared in our household in the last 36 hours. From scratch. Sans recipe, save the last one.

Not by me.

THUD.

It would be impossible to overstate how totally not normal this is.

EDIT: Oh, and all were phenomenal. Really.

Is Blogging Outdated?

As you can see, I've hardly blogged since, oh, May. It seems that many of my friends have neglected their blogs, as well. Was blogging just a fad? If so, why is it over? If not, will people ramp it up in the new year? Discuss.

Also, I'm in a funk. Usually I am in love with this time of year, but sadly, not this year. I think I mostly need to remember the words of this talk.

Comforting

Mmm I love thunderstorms, especially when I am inside and warm and toasty and dry. To quote Dan, it's like a monsoon out there. I love it. It's even better when one has skylights in her roof. And by "one" I mean "me."

Shabby Apple Dare to Design Lawn Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!

Shabby Apple Dare to Design Lawn Frock GIVEAWAY!!!!


So I somehow stumbled across this and am mildly obsessed. Or maybe very much obsessed. I've never done this blog link thing before, so hopefully it works, because, as mentioned, I am obsessed.

x2

Bring it home, Phils.