Things I Did This Weekend: Cleaning Everything. Like, EVERYTHING.

Spring cleaning: my accomplishment this weekend.

For us this also means new sheets, new bedding, and new storage boxes to organize existing crap that will probably be messy again by the end of the year. We also have the most awesome, labeled, and organized pantry in the world state city neighborhood now. Thanks for making me spend more money than necessary, The Container Store and Ikea.

Besides, it was raining a lot so there wasn’t a lot to do anyways.

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Things I Did This Weekend: Mother’s Day

So Mother’s Day was yesterday. I’m not a mom, but Bacon is the closest I have to a kid right now. I can’t imagine what I’d be like as a mom because I know I already baby Bacon to death.

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Things I Did This Weekend: Family Time

I went to my parents’ house this weekend to get some feedback on the authenticity of a recipe I was working on. I also wanted to use their kitchen because it is much bigger than ours and my mom has so many gadgets and spices that I can play with.

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Things I Did This Weekend: Ugh?

Even though I had a busy weekend (including lunch with the beautiful Grandma Mae — one of Chef’s grandmas), it still didn’t distract me from the fact that I felt under the weather. I think Bacon noticed it too…

I know it’s an old wives tale, but I still believe that a hot toddy — a cup of tea with a splash of bourbon, cinnamon stick, honey, and some lemon juice — is the cure all for many things. It’s gotta be a germ killer of some sort with all that stuff in there right?!

I hope this is fatigue-related. I can’t be sick! There’s too much stuff going on!