I’m typing this up from my living room/ dining room table, with a hot cup of peppermint tea and a completely empty, eerily quiet house. My roommates left over the course of yesterday and today, flying back to the U.S to spend the holidays with their families. I’m excited for the trips I have planned […]
Making: plans for Amsterdam and Berlin!!! I CAN’T WAIT! Also, I made lots of Christmas cookies this week. I told the parents of my private students that we could make Christmas cookies in class and they agreed! Lots of fun and even more mess. Cooking: I made this garlic-lemon chicken & pasta and dare I say, it […]
Before I tell you about Warsaw, I really need to tell you about how we got to Warsaw. There are two options for trains, a 2 hour train and a 4 hour train. The latter being about 1/2 the price, so we opted for that. Annie and I talked about comfy seats, warm and cozy…and […]
We are in the home stretch! I took over 650 photos in Poland, so narrowing them down to three posts, while also saying everything that I want to say (especially about Auschwitz) has proved to be so much more time-consuming than I expected! But I am starting to see the light at the end of […]
After spending two days in Krakow, we spent the third day visiting Auschwitz. I can’t comprehend the idea of going to Poland without taking a day trip to visit Auschwitz, one of the largest (if not the largest) Nazi concentration and death camp during WWII. Auschwitz was the site of 1.1 million deaths, and the […]
I’m back with another gift guide! This time with things that are perfect for anyone that loves to cook or bake. Just like my last gift guide, these gifts range in price so don’t be discouraged that many of them are machines! There are also smaller gifts here. 2016 Christmas Gift Guide: For People Who […]
I have so many posts I need to do (like recaps of Poland!), but those feel like they take so much mental capacity that I am lacking these days. Instead, my mind has been consumed with gifts and the holiday season, and while I am having an extremely hard time finding gifts that feel meaningful […]
I don’t do these types of posts very often, but they are, without a doubt, one of my favorites to go back and read. Your days might feel very ordinary, but they change and evolve over time- everything from what you do, to who you know, what you eat, what you wear, etc., will change. […]
HAPPY TUESDAY! (started this post yesterday, but never finished) I was just here chattin’ with ya’ll last…Thursday? Or was it Friday? I’ve loss track since time is completely flying past, despite my greatest wishes (as mentioned in the last post). Part of it is due to being so busy with Bruja’s Bakery, and the other […]
Making: pumpkin pie for daaaayyyyyyyyyyyyz. I decided to start a little business- Bruja’s Bakery (from idea –> business –> closing the business in less than two weeks. Just for Thanksgiving. I am selling pumpkin pie, pumpkin-cream cheese rolls, Nutella-stuffed blondies annnnnnd raspberry-oatmeal crumble bars. And for this week and next week, I feel like I’m drowning […]