Planes, Trains and Running Shoes

I miss this blog. I've had it for 12 years and for the first several, I wrote in this space almost every day. I know the appetite for personal blogs has gone down quite a bit but sometimes, I hav...

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Happy 2021, friends! It took a full quarter of the year for me to write something in this space but here we are, and it's an exciting post! Today, nearly 6 months after starting our DIY kitchen r...

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Hello! It's been a while! We've been managing our way through the pandemic, tackling as many home projects as we can. Right now, we're about 3/4 of the way through a kitchen renovation that I'm s...

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This post is coming to you exactly one year after we hopped on a plane with Aurora and went to London. Better late than never, right? Before Aurora was born, I heard a million different it...

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Last week, The Pilot and I made our way to Ocean City, Maryland for what we hoped would be a safe way to go somewhere new, get some much-needed time outside our house, and have a little bit of f...

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It's been four months since COVID-19 hit and effectively shut down the world. I'll be honest and say that despite everything I was reading about this virus in January and February, I never thou...

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Friends, welcome to the 10th and final week of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! When I started this challenge, it was with the idea of just doing something fun and challenging myself a litt...

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Hello friends! Welcome to Week 9 of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! This is our 2nd to last week! I honestly thought that when I decided this little challenge would last for 10 weeks, that ...

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Hello friends! It's Week 9 of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! I hope everyone is doing well. Here in DC and Maryland, our stay-at-home orders are being lifted. I'm not too sure what that me...

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Hello! It's Week 7 of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! When I started this challenge, my plan was for it to go on for 10 weeks, the typical length of a season of The Great British Bake Of...

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Hello! It's Week 6 of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! I'm getting this post up much later than I wanted to but here it is! While many parts of the country are starting to reopen, the DC are...

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Hello friends! It's Week 5 of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! Social distance-wise, this week has been tough. The Pilot is on an extended trip away for work and it's been a real struggle t...

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As we enter our 8th week of social distancing, so begins our 4th week of The Great Social Distance Bake Off! I hope everyone is holding up ok. I've loved seeing all of the bread recipes you'v...

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Hello friends! Welcome to Week 3 of The Great Social Distance Bakeoff! I hope you're all doing well. This week has been tough. I went for a run on Wednesday and everything just hit me all at ...

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Hello! Welcome back to The Great Social Distance Bakeoff! I have loved seeing how many people have joined in the fun and shared their flourless cakes last week! I seem to have been the only one ...

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Hello dear friends! I hope you're all well. Can you believe we've been at this for a month already? It's been a very, very long four weeks. How have you been coping? It seems that everyone...

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March is a weird month for me. It's the month I found out I was pregnant with my first baby and the month my second was due. I always feel like I'm grappling with a lot of different emotions in ...

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Until this weekend, I had never gone into a race just hoping I would finish. Training for this race was going smoothly until about 3 weeks ago when I headed out for an 8-mile run and stopped...

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Our first overseas trip together - London! When I started telling people that I was pregnant, overwhelmingly, people told me how good it was that that I traveled so much before I had kids. ...

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Covent Garden, London Hello! Happy New Year. Happy February. Welcome back. I have always loved the New Year. I always make a lot of resolutions or goals and I usually stick with them. I...

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I can't believe I've only written two blog posts this year 😶 My last post was in March and so much has happened since then! If anyone is still reading this, I'll catch you up! In June...

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Today marks my fourth week back at work since maternity leave. Although, instead of going "back" to work, I started a new job, one that is already proving to be infinitely less stressful and d...

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It's a little late for a New Year's post but I've been trying to think about what to write for my first post of the year...and first post in over a month. I've seen so many posts slammin...

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When I found out I was pregnant, there were two things I knew for certain right away - that I didn't want to know the sex of the baby and that I wanted a travel-themed nursery. We had a travel-...

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Two weeks ago, The Pilot and I welcomed our sweet baby girl, Aurora Olivia, into the world and I couldn't be more in love. We've been thinking about and planning for these early weeks with...

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