Life & Love

Fall is here in Maine and I absolutely love it. I've been ready for fall to be here since July, I'm not even kidding... it's my most favorite season ever and if I could choose one season to have for a whole year I would totally choose fall. I love everything about it, the cooler weather, the beautiful changing of the leaves and raking them into piles to jump into, corn rides and corn mazes, the beautiful mums and other fall time flowers, hot apple cider and apple picking along with the baking with the apples after, pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns at Halloween time, the list just goes on and on.





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I don't know about anyone else but I always seem to slack in the house work/cooking/baking departments during the Summer because it's just TOO hot. So I'm always looking forward to Fall. Not only is it my favorite season but I love cooking & baking and can't wait to try out some new recipes. Allrecipes.com is one of my favorite websites and I find myself spending hours searching the website for all kinds of delicious new recipes.


Yesterday I baked us some homemade white bread in our bread machine. I kind of feel like I cheated cause I used the bread machine but it's just so much easier and quicker than doing the whole thing from scratch myself. Husband loved the bread so much he declared that I have to make us 4 to 5 loafs a week and we are not allowed to buy bread from the store anymore. I agree though, homemade bread is so much better so I won't mind making it every week. I can't wait to try other types of breads as well, I want to make cinnamon raison, pumpernickel, maple whole wheat, chocolate chip, sour dough, the list goes on... :)




[Photos by me]

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I'm going to try to start posting at least 5 times a week. I won't say 7 times a week because I highly doubt I will post at all on the Saturdays or Sundays, I usually try to spend as much time as possible with Husband and as little possible on the internet over the weekends. I have a list that keeps growing of different things I want to post about. I'm very excited and so glad to be back on the internet again!

For now I'm off to get ready to go spend the day with my Mom. I'm so glad and so blessed that she lives so close that I can see her WHENEVER I want to! =)

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I took a long break from my blog and here is why...

Marriage is hard. I never really expected it to be easy but I always thought to myself how we've been together so long already (6 years in January) that it wouldn't be that much different and not that much harder. I was wrong. There's that saying about how "the first year of marriage is always the hardest", I laughed at that. I never thought it would be any harder. But things got extremely complicated after we got married. Sure, things were great for the first few months but they also got really stressful. We were married in September and bought our first house in October. Then Thanksgiving and Christmas were here, then before we knew it it was time for Spring layoff at Andrews work. Spring layoff is always very stressful but with our added mortgage it became so much more stressful than in past years. The stress along with other things put a huge strain on our relationship and we ending up separating for a few months. It was hard but we are back together again and working through all of our problems physically, mentally, emotionally and financially. We love each other very much. We have put way too much into our relationship not to try to make it work. We wouldn't have ever gotten married if we weren't going to make it last. It's been a tough year but we are rebuilding our relationship and I have all the confidence in the world that we will last and that we will be stronger than ever!

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