We are now visiting my family in Michigan for one more week before we head back to Deutschland. It’s nice seeing the old crew again. My little 8 year old sister Grace has been following me around all day teaching me card games and doing my hair. I think I might have to kidnap … Read more
Well, here I am, still counting down the days until the due date (10 days!!!) and torturing myself with the thought every single day of “tonight could be the night!”. I’ll probably go two weeks past the due date now with my luck. Oh well, at least by then I might finally be resigned to … Read more
I suppose it’s to be expected, since this is the first recipe I made up and photographed since the chub was born, but I was having an awful time getting these muffins right. I could blame it on being sleep-deprived or just being rusty from my lack of baking over the past five weeks, but … Read more
I had the best grandpa. From Grandpa, I learned how to be frugal. When we would go to Sam’s Club (partly for the groceries, mostly for the free samples), he would always buy us a big pop right when we got there. He always advised us to drink it fast so we could get a … Read more
You know the feeling. 5 o’ clock is rolling on in and you still have no dinner plans. You look in the cupboard and find a box of spaghetti noodles. “Hello, old friend,” you say to yourself. You thaw a brick of ground beef in the microwave and get out the familiar can of … Read more
So… I sat down about four hours ago to write this post for you about the most moist and luscious pumpkin muffins you will ever eat in your life, but I decided to quickly check my email first. Bad idea. Lo and behold, I had an email from Snapfish saying I had a gift of … Read more
So if you have been following me on Instagram, you have seen that even though I do not possess the time/sanity to cook you new recipes to post with a 1 1/2 year old and a newborn around, I somehow found the time/sanity to create 8 new homemade photo backdrops (see here). Well maybe not … Read more
So I bet you guys were thinking I would completely forget about Thanksgiving. Well, I would would have, but my sister reminded me. “Hey, you should make those cheesy bacony mashed potatoes to post,” she said, “I think people would really like those for Thanksgiving.” So while I was photographing them, she was hovering around … Read more
Hello, and welcome to my first post of 2018! January may be half over, but (as usual) I have some great excuses! First of all, Samuel now has an official deadline to finish his thesis to get his degree (after which he will have to fly all the way back to Berlin to defend it), … Read more
I have probably made this chocolate pie approximately five trillion times since I first made up the recipe. And if you say you aren’t a big fan of chocolate pie, as I once said in my ignorance, that may only be because you are used to Jello pudding mix chocolate pies. This chocolate pie is … Read more