I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes a home. I started thinking about it the other day when my parents mentioned that sometime in the next several years, they might consider downsizing, selling the house I lived in from nine years old through college. Although I know this makes practical sense, in an […]
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Adventures in Budgeting
Around Thanksgiving, my husband and I decided that instead of going back to work at the end of January as we’d originally planned, I am going to stay out on maternity leave for the rest of the school year. I’m very happy about this decision because I love motherhood much more than I’d expected, and […]
The Symbol Of Spode
Today, in early anticipation of the season, I got out my treasured Christmas Tree Spode. For those of you who don’t know the pattern, it looks like this: I have a pretty big collection, as my family adds to it each Christmas, and it gives me great pleasure to eat, drink, and serve from it. […]