Farewell Chicago: Feeling Fortunate

sweet home chicago banner, farewell tour of chicago, chicago skyline banner

As our moving date approaches, I’m becoming increasingly aware of just how fortunate I am. I guess leaving a place after six years will do that to you. By now most everyone is privy to the big changes on our horizon and as much as I try not to think about saying goodbye just yet, the goodbyes […]

Read More

Farewell Chicago: Running in the city

sweet home chicago banner, farewell tour of chicago, chicago skyline banner

Switching up Workout Wednesday this week to bring you the first in what will probably be many installments of my farewell tour of Chicago. It is about running so I guess it can count as a Workout Wednesday post as well. When I first moved to this city 6 years ago, I made a Chicago bucket […]

Read More

Big Announcement

greater swiss mountain dog, moving announcement, florida, simply social blog

Ladies and Gentleman, can I please have your attention? I need you to stop what you are doing and listen… OK so this news isn’t horrifying and it doesn’t have anything to do with cannonballs, but it is kind of a big deal. If you know me in real life or just by reading this […]

Read More

Breaking Breck

Hello. Me again. I hope you didn’t forget me due to my short hiatus in posting. Truth is I was on vacation. And while I’m pretty dedicated to this whole blogging thing, I draw the line at vacations. First of all, chances are you aren’t on vacation at the same time as me so you probably […]

Read More

Cinnamon-raisin coffee cake

cinnamon raisin coffee cake, bundt pan coffee cake, simply coffee cake recipes, baking, breakfast, brunch

Believe it or not I used up all my words this weekend so I’m going to keep this short and sweet. Speaking of sweet this coffee cake is just that. Sweet enough but not too sweet that you find yourself trying to get it to say something mean just to see if it’s capable of […]

Read More

These are not hangover recipes

banana chocolate chip muffin, recipes, breakfast, banana muffin, dessert

One of my girlfriends had a birthday party last night and I’m proud to say I stayed out, in a bar, well past 2 a.m. I know my after-hours-attending, late-night-eating 21 year-old self is laughing right now as she reads that statement but she’s just going to have to deal with the fact that we’re […]

Read More

Everything is Awesome

My apologies for the delay in posting and for getting this tune in your head for the rest of eternity. I traveled home this weekend to see my family and pick up my pooch. I was supposed to pick him up the weekend before but the roads were bad so we pushed it off a […]

Read More

The Girlfriend Games of 2014

girls weekend activity ideas, girlfriend games 2014, olympic games for girls weekend, trivia, game night ideas

Let me tell ya ’bout my best friends. Even though my phone is probably going to start blowing up immediately once this is published due to the photos included, I’d be remiss if I didn’t give you a little context before I tell you about my best friends. They are pretty awesome. I know everyone […]

Read More