Remember how yesterday I was semi-bragging (okay, gloating, really) about how mellow and cool I am? About how nothing phases me, and I pooh-...

As a side note to last night's wonderful dinner, I must admit it started out a bit shaky. I mentioned I had to run out to get bread flou...

I'm in a cooking/baking mood today, perhaps because of the recent run of cool, rainy weather. Fall-like temps make me want to cook like ...

What makes me happy? FINALLY having my stove (Magic Chef 1000) hooked up and merrily cooking away. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to ...

Roxie, our old landlord's dog, is staying with us for the next several days, and Adora isn't exactly being the gracious hostess she ...

I'm happy to say that things are perking up a bit in the freelance department for me lately. I've just been given an illustration pr...

Part of the gang hanging out at the Flume, in the Ausable River—From left to right: Isabelle, me, Pete, Olivia, and Jeanette A view from abo...

Pete wearing his WWII jacket Pete wearing his WWII tunic During most of the time we were up in the Adirondacks, Pete ran around in one of ei...

Pete and me on Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks...yes, that's my preggo belly straining at my tank top in the picture. We're ba...

As you read this, Pete and I are off to the Adirondacks for a lovely vacation in a beautiful cabin near Lake Placid. We were there in '0...

The rumors are true.... :)

They are so cute when they're sleeping and not causing trouble, aren't they? Dollie's favorite room is our dining room/kitchen, ...

Hard to believe it's been almost a year already.... We'll be celebrating our first wedding anniversary in Savanna this weekend at th...

I've been on a bit of a short hiatus from blogging lately—not intentionally, but there it is. I've just been unusually busy during t...

Today is the one year anniversary of this blog. Wow, time sure has flown! Lots has happened during that time, too. I've gotten married,...

Here's a little entertainment for you while I wrestle with my laptop's mouse, trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with the d...

Well, it's been a steamy few days here in the ol' Hoogestraat household, and I haven't been too thrilled about it. Yes, I bitche...

There have been rather bad storms moving through the area today, and another one is on it's way now (the one that's almost covering ...

I really like this idea of hanging a bunch of photos along an entire wall, and changing them as the mood strikes. I am a huge photo nerd, wh...

Pete and I are in the middle of painting our dining room and kitchen floors, which means everyone has to be quarantined to the living room. ...