Honoring Housewives
I am not a housewife. I have a job for 10 months out of the year. But for 9 weeks, I am, essentially, a housewife. Tim and I moved in together almost one year ago (July 1) and last summer,… Read more ›
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Problematic Pin-Ups
This story about 1950’s pin-up girl pictures came across my Google Reader shared items (sorry… I missed who shared it!) and left me thinking. From the site: The pin-up paintings (and photographs, of course) were created by Gil Elvgren, one… Read more ›
The Chair
Yesterday, I alluded to an argument Tim and I have been having about pushing in the chair at the dining room table. It’s right by the door of our apartment, and he sits there to put his shoes on any… Read more ›
Finding Me Again
I know, I know, I know. I’ve been absent from this site lately. But there are a few really good reasons for this, and I haven’t really been ready to write about any of it until just now. Honestly, blogging… Read more ›
Perfection
If you had a wedding and you’re anything like me – and probably 90% of women all over the world – you felt some pressure to be perfect for your wedding. This may or may not have included extra workouts,… Read more ›
To Honeymoon or Not To Honeymoon? That is the Question.
This past weekend, Tim and I attended one of my friends’ weddings and it was absolutely beautiful. The bride teaches across the hall from me, so we spent a lot of time talking about weddings this year – as you… Read more ›
And that we will love.
Six months ago today, I was busy primping and pampering myself, trying to make myself look more beautiful than I’ve ever looked before. I arrived at the bridal suite nervous and a little cranky. Anticipation has never been my thing.… Read more ›
House Hunting
Tim and I viewed our first houses in our house hunt on Monday. And believe it or not, we found a house that was absolutely gorgeous. Perfect neighborhood, perfect yard, perfect kitchen, perfect basement, perfect bathrooms, perfect fireplace… it was… Read more ›
The Feminist Lens: Good Enough Is the New Perfect
Good Enough Is the New Perfect by Becky Beaupre Gillespie My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m going to start this review with two important admissions: 1. I am not a mother. 2. I consciously decided not to finish the… Read more ›
Ultimate Spring Cleaning
Yesterday was our very first family Ultimate Spring Cleaning, which is like normal spring cleaning but with more yelling. 🙂 I kid – we actually didn’t yell at all yesterday, and the spring cleaning was – admittedly – kind of… Read more ›
The Importance of Importance
I had the good fortune to attend and present at the Connections Conference last week. The awesome thing about presenting at conferences like these is that my registration fee is paid and I get to attend all sorts of great… Read more ›
Running on To-Do Lists, Compliments, and Love
I’ve posted some posts here, but, let’s face it, I haven’t really blogged on here in almost a month. Many of you have asked what I’ve been up to, and have told me that you miss my blogging and feel… Read more ›
Oh, baby!
So. The conversations about babies have started. I’m surprised it took this long. I think a lot of it started because we’ve been sort of idly searching for houses but it’s been a difficult process because we’re not really sure… Read more ›
More on the Selfish/Selfless Balance
Why I love my Mommy: She will always gently remind me when I border on the too-selfish while NEVER telling me I’m a bad wife if I tend too much to myself and not enough to my husband. There are… Read more ›
Selfish! Selfless! Is there an inbetween?
Tim signed up for the Chicago Marathon this week. Guess when it is? October 9. Does that date ring a bell? (Hint: white dress, big ceremony, happiest day of my life…) Historically, this has always been a big weekend for… Read more ›
Yea, we fight. You don’t?
Tim and I haven’t had a good, blow-out fight in a really long time. That’s usually how it goes; we go for a long time in happy, coupl-y bliss and then something starts building up – usually with me –… Read more ›
Shameless Self Promotion! – NEW BLOG!
Hey feminists! There’s a new feminist blog on the market. Deconstructing The Fairytale: Feminist Perspectives on Weddings and Marriage! If you love Small Strokes (and you know you do), you’ll love this blog! Rosie, Jillian, Safa and I will be… Read more ›
In Sickness and In Health…
It has been two weeks of uninterrupted sickness at the Sam/Rob household. (Just to confuse you more, I have now shortened our last names for purposes here.) This is the first time since we moved in together that both of… Read more ›
Happy 2011, 2010 Recap, a General Update, and 30 Before 30 – WITH PICTURES!
Happy 2011! Here’s a cute robot-looking-thing to help you usher in the New Year. 🙂 Many of you bloggers have been doing a 2010 recap. Here’s mine: wedding, wedding, teaching, wedding, California, wedding, California again, marriage. Oh yea, I finished… Read more ›
Happy Holidays!
To everyone who has read, commented, shared, joked about, or even mentioned in passing something about this blog… To everyone who has listened to (and read about) me tirelessly complain about name changes and white dresses and people who don’t… Read more ›