They met while playing together on a work softball team. He was pitching; she was playing 1st base. The whole team would go out for drinks afterwards and it always somehow ended up being just the two of them left at the end. They were very good friends, played tennis together, and hung out a […]

She got a text message from him after work as she was getting ready for dinner with her parents. He said he wanted to come over early to talk before her parents arrived. She shrugged it off and didn’t think anything of it. He arrived looking dressed up and sat down next to her. He […]

He forgot his phone. That’s how he ended up back at her house after the evening of hanging out with mutual friends who were in town. A few days after that, they went out to eat with friends and she says she wasn’t sure where it would go, but she really liked him and wanted […]

his recipe is my great-grandmother’s recipe and it came with very few directions so, with my mother’s instruction, it’s modified a bit. My great-grandma wrote down her recipes as if someone should be able to read her mind, like how “1/2” obviously meant 1/2 cup if it was referring to cream, but 1/2 teaspoon if […]

The way he looks at her tells you everything you need to know. He adores her in the most sincere of ways and she leans into him because she trusts him explicitly. Theirs has been a long-distance relationship (see how they met!) and I’m so glad they will finally begin their chapter together, in the […]

hen we first bought our home earlier this year, we didn’t notice the slight negative slope of a small portion of the yard back toward the house. Overall, the yard was nicely sloping away from the house so it wasn’t very noticeable. It wasn’t until our basement flooded that we realized we needed to fix […]