Hello friends welcome to a Sunday! It feels like it’s been a week ruled by the ever-growing, never satisfied to-do list, but there’s something about stepping outside to water the plants or wash the car that slows everything down – mostly because the humidity is exhausting. It’s well designed down here in that way –…
Who am I to tell you how to make a sandwich? Oh… just a girl who loves bacon and brown sugar and toasted pecans. I’ll tell you the secrets to the perfect BLT sandwich: candy the bacon // toast the bread // spice the mayo // add just about too much mayo to the sandwich…
Hello friends and welcome to Day 3 of CAMP JOY! Today we’re giving and receiving a summer camp highlight – the ever-coveted CARE PACKAGE! My parents were sweet enough to send me a care package from Los Angeles and the rule is, when you get a care package you have to give a care package…
Friends, hello! Happy Sunday! I slightly relaxed my grip on quarantine life for the first time in months the past few weeks and woop – not a great idea. I came in close range to the virus and locked it aaaallll back up. A test today showed a negative result, thank goodness, but I’m gonna…
In these crazy days? We need to have our boundaries clearcut. I make myself a to-do list every day. I have a list of things I’d like to do to take care of myself each month, ya know…. emotionally, physically, financially because I’m grown. I also have a list of ‘absolutely nots’. A causal list…
Hello friends and welcome to DAY 2 of CAMP JOY! This week we’re taking it all the way easy and making some of my favorite lazy summer treats! I tell a few stories about my mom this episode. She’s the best person. Mom introduced me to sun tea and taught me how to be gracious…
Hello dear friends! We’re in deep. Deep into this year. Deep into this summer. This morning I got deep into my pantry for a major cleaning. The state of my pantry is often the state of my brainspace and these past few weeks I’ve just been shoving things everywhichwhere hoping to remember it, hoping to…
Hello friends! I’m comin’ atcha with the latest ambitious endeavor from Joy the Baker! I’ve been feeling super nostalgic this summer, thinking back to my days as a pre-teen (woof) at sleepaway camp in Los Angeles. These wafts of nostalgia come as we’re deep into summer 2020 and what a wild, sad sad summer it…
Hello my friends, We’re here, smack dab in the middle of July, in the middle of the most wild time. How are you? How are we? I was on a camping vacation last weekend (thank you for all your kind words about last week’s no-post) which makes coming back to current news and circumstances a…
Hello sweet friends. I’m taking a break from our Sunday post this week to give myself a bit of a holiday. I’m camping in Mississippi – in an RV with air conditioning – I’m not totally crazy. I’ll be cooking this camping menu, listening to a lot of 90’s music, swimming in a river, and…
You all have seen me pitz around my kitchen pulling cakes out of the oven – no surprise there. There’s part of me that you might not be as familiar with. She’s outdoorsy, she can build a fire, she can make a cobbler over hot coals, she owns a bow and arrow, she is a…
Hello sweet friends, I’m glad we made it here to this moment. This week I’ve been focusing hard on the things right in front of me. You know? The world is spinnin’ real wild, but the small things of an everyday life have to get done. I’ve had those in focus – checking the front…
I still have pandemic brain. Maybe now more than ever? The brain that doesn’t know what day it is. The brain that wants to leave the house but also does not want to step food outside. The brain that stays ready for that early bedtime but wakes up at 3 in the morning with oh……
Hello sweet friends, We sure did make it to another fine Sunday. It doesn’t matter what condition we’re in. It’s Sunday and hopefully we can spend at least an extended amount of time in our pajamas. You know that idiom ‘you can only eat an elephant one bite at a time’? It’s a weird one…
Welcome to my home, firm, sweetly yellow bananas. You’re beautiful. You’re perfectly ripe. I know you holler for me every time I pass the fruit bowl. “Me! Me! I’m perfect! Eat me now!” I hear you. I’m just ignoring you. But here’s the thing, I have a plan for you. I’m going to reach for…
Hello friends! My favorite thing to do every morning is pick out the coffee cup I’m going to use. A luxury of having exactly too many mugs is that you get to choose from an array of places, memories, and gifts from friends when you’re selecting a cup. This morning I picked a cup my…
I’ve been staring at my pantry these days looking for exactly anything other than what I have. You do that too, right? Sure there is a bounty in this home, a true wealth of nutrients but like…. where is the box of Entemann’s coffee cake that happens to be literally the only thing I want…
Hello friends! It’s that time of year again though, what a doozy of a year we find ourselves in. I won’t call it ‘unprecedented’ and I won’t use the word ‘uncertain’. Enough of that. We’re living through everything all at once. Truly. But we always have – we’re just feeling it more. We can take…
Hello dear friends. I mean this most sincerely – how are you? I’m ok. I can tell you, I can’t remember ever feeling the way I’ve felt this week. The best way I can describe it is maybe… soul tired? But I know it’s not permanent because GodAlmighty nothing is. It feels like this has…
Hi friends. Where are we this week? In such a dark dark place. I read this headline today and could only say “My God” aloud. It’s hard. It’s always hard sometimes we feel it more deeply. We have a lot of places to go in today’s Sunday post but let me start here: I read…
Hi friends – yes, it’s me – the girl that brings Deviled Eggs to the party just so she can eat them all. (Wait… remember parties?) As we’re slowly, very slowly, starting to merge together once again, maybe you’ll see fit to make approximately too many Deviled Eggs to eat most of and share with…
Hello sweet friend! Gosh we made it to another Sunday. Can you believe? Will you do me a favor? Tell me what you do when you settle down with this post? What’s your routine? I can tell you my routine in writing this post for you – it’s really my favorite thing to put together…
I turn 39 today! That’s a mind-bender of a sentence to type. The only person it might be weirder for is my mom as we seem to be, someway somehow, approaching the same age. I stopped my mom’s age somewhere between 45 and 48. She’s older now and thriving thankfully, but if forced to say…
If this dessert were a kid on the playground it would the little one flying headfirst down the slide, screaming “LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!”. It feels a little dangerous, it definitely makes you smile, and it will not quit until it has your attention. So here we are. I feel like you’re already headed…
I’ve been swapping dinner and breakfast. Just yesterday for breakfast I had a hot dog with mustard and potato salad. For dinner – scrambled eggs and a tortilla. My morning are slower this week. My motivation to go for that jog has faded into the deep (early quarantine) past as has my desire to even…
Hello friends! It’s another fine Sunday and I hope it finds you well, healthy, and with coffee. How’s your family text thread? Mine is filled with daily updates of everyone’s gardens, the frequent mention of cakes we miss eating together, pictures of our animals, and the occasional guilt-trip offshoot text which, as you might imagine,…
