From the monthly archives: February 2009

Reunion

On February 28, 2009 · 1 Comment · In friends

I am so ridiculously excited for this weekend.

Tomorrow, I am driving the two hours to Bethany’s house for a little girls’ night/reunion with five of “the girls” from college. The six of us have not been all together since September, when we gathered the night before Bethany’s baby shower. So it has […]

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Taggedy Tagged

On February 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In football, other blogs

I’ve been tagged by Lynsey over at Foster Following.

The rules of this little photo game:
Open the folder with all of your photos.
Open your 6th photo folder.
Take your 6th photo in that folder and blog it.
Write something about it.
Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.

This […]

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Ash Wednesday

On February 26, 2009 · 7 Comments · In religion

Today is Ash Wednesday.

I was able to go on my lunch break to receive ashes. Lent has officially begun.

Don’t worry–I’m not about to go off about religion. I’m the last person that would ever tell someone that they should believe what I believe or that I’m right and they’re […]

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Recent Read: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

On February 24, 2009 · 9 Comments · In books

I finished this book a couple of weeks ago when we were on our way to Vegas, but haven’t taken the time to sit down and write about it until now.

But this book–what a delightful read! I loved it.

Water for Elephants is the story of Jacob Jankowski, a retired veterinarian who […]

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Italian Baked Chicken & Pastina

On February 23, 2009 · 5 Comments · In recipes - chicken, recipes - pasta

My husband actually found this meal! Michael was browsing the Food Network website one day a few weeks ago and came across this recipe from Giada Bobblehead De Laurentiis.

Reading the measurements for the recipe, it was clear to me that we would need to double it to make a normal sized dinner. As I’ve […]

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