Do you dread cold and flu season as much as I do?! I always have mixed opinions about this time of year……and the looming cold and flu season. I’m one of those rare few who actually loves winter time. Probably because I grew up in Northern Wisconsin where the winters were brutal. So now that I live somewhere with a more mild winter, I get all kinds of excited when the leaves drop and some snow starts falling! What I don’t love, especially now that I have kids though, is all the pesky germs ... VIEW POST

Winter is coming!!! True life: I bought my first kabocha squash last week after seeing it starting to pop up all over Instagram and Pinterest recently in some amazing looking recipes. It sat on my counter for an entire week while I just stared at it occasionally wondering what I would do with it. Then I started thinking about how I'm going to be having this baby soon, in the dead of winter and cold/flu season and I thought "I need to strengthen my immune system," and the best way I know how to ... VIEW POST