via www.queeringdomesticity.com YAY!!! Giveaway I am part of an AWESOME giveaway over at Queering Domesticity Head over and check out the blog which is one of my favorites by the way and enter to ... stuff!!! Here are a couple things!!   BIG BIG thanks to Meaghan at Queering Domesticity for all of her hard work putting this giveaway together and for including me I'm so excited ...

I feel I have reached the age where "neighbor gifts" have become an essential part of the holiday routine. We've always been on the receiving end of said gifts, and this year I committed to paying it forward. The only hurdle standing in my way: I have not a single creative bone in my body. Luckily, I happen to make a mean Snickerdoodle. And thanks to the Dollar Store, I had a ...

Today was a day of pottering and domesticity. I rearranged the downstairs cupboard and squared away Dave's cardboard boxes that were eating the lounge, and now we have more room in the lounge and the cds are put in the corner where they belong. The builders have finished painting in the lounge, and so now all we're waiting on is for the rail to be put on the balcony and we're done. I ...

Next week, most Americans will be gathered around a table of some sort to celebrate Thanksgiving, and by "celebrate," I mean stuff their faces until a button or four pops off any variety of shirt, pants, blouse, or skort. And when it comes to gut-busting food, no one does it better than Ina Garten. That's why it was only logical that my clique would convene yet again for our third ...

I have exciting news to share.  His Bertness is learning to cook! Now. Those of you who know him well know that he has been more than resistant to learning to cook. In fact, in the 18 years of our marriage — before now — he has mastered one dish: homemade chicken broth.  But this week, he made a taco casserole all by himself. All  by himself! It was quite tasty. Yesterday, he shaped and ...

Growing up the fanciest meal anyone would cook in our household was a box of hamburger helper. How I developed any sort of domestic cooking ability upon leaving said household 7 years ago is beyond me. I've never participated in a traditional Thanksgiving before. In fact, most of my Thanksgivings border on the depressing and bizarre. After all, Thanksgiving seemed stressful. All the prep ...

I've been concentrating on the domestic today. We went to "Breakfast at Bethlehem" this morning. A church Christmas activity. There were lots of crafts for the children to do. Truth be told, I wanted to do a few myself. The rest of the day was spent sorting out the bombsite that is my sons' bedroom. (They know not the meaning of clean and tidy!) Cleaning the fish tank also ...

People now and then ask me what I do to celebrate finishing a book. Do I have a special spa ritual, a nice restaurant I go to, do I buy champagne? In fact, I buy towels. It takes me about three years to write one of the big books of the main OUTLANDER series, and that's just about how long it takes for most of the towels around here to be worn out, destroyed in the wash, or taken away by ...

Returned from the cafe where I was intermittently working on the novel and cooing (literally cooing, like a pigeon) at a dachshund enrobed in a casual piece of purple knitwear, and where BW was intermittently doing something related to philosophy (it's philosophy, so that's the best I can do) and playing some computer game involving bubbles and towers, I was greeted by an enormous ...

Jump to the full entry & travel map Bursa, Turkey For the foreseeable future this will no longer be a travel blog. It will be a blog about an American in Bursa. About a somewhat eccentric retiree as he tries for the first time to establish a life in a foreign country, no longer the traveler, but a resident. I have seen, though, that I will always be the ...

Disclaimer: this is an iPhone post and will contain typos I've been thinking about t-day a lot and why I'm so excited. Not only will I get to see Alden and his family (especially the kids!) but my parents will be here too. I've always loved thanksgiving. I love being in the kitchen. I love preparing food for the people I care about. I love siting down at the table to share a meal and ...

... quot;The Gentle Art of Domesticity" "Jane Brocket delights in domesticity. Lively, curious, and creative, she takes inspiration from her surroundings, from art, ... gentle arts of needlework, cooking, gardening, and homemaking and now through her writing. In The Gentle Art of Domesticity Brocket celebrates everything that is, and can be, wonderful about home life."$35.00 available hereI ...

... allowed to sleep with him anymore. Akihiko has no idea when he slipped into domesticity, but it’s starting to creep him out just a bit. Misaki’s ... train of thought finally finishes itself. Somewhere along the line he has become happy. Somewhere along with the domesticity has come contentment. There’s no need to smoke as much, because he’s less stressed, but ...

... ;m working on it. I'll be back in the rat race before I know it, but this momentary visit to the domesticity of stay-at-home-motherhood has been very rich for me. Wholesome, real, purposeful, and right. The remaining hours ... being here when my boys aren't at school. And I love that I've worked so hard and so alone so long that I recognize the beauty in these fleeting days of domesticity.

... ;the best breakfast sandwich I've ever had." I then congratulated myself on my burgeoning domesticity and we settled in for some football. I also called my father as it was his BIRTHDAY! Happy Birthday, Dad!!! ... . Soon after that, I curled up in bed with book #48 (!!!) of the year. Progress report to come soon, along with another (longer) tale of domesticity. How was your weekend?