Oof. What a weekend. The past few days have been President’s Day weekend–no school but Eric still had work–so I haven’t had time to sit down with the blog or really, anything beyond dishes and laundry that’s needed my attention. (Our tax forms are screaming my name from the corner as their deadline approaches…)
Anyways, after an unseasonably warm few days, Minnesota remembered that it’s winter. And how better to cozy up than visiting a new restaurant near us that’s not just gluten-free friendly, but entirely gluten-free?! Brim Café & Coffee opened up on the edge of Edina/Richfield fairly recently and we’ve been excited to visit since. So here’s our restaurant review of Brim.… Read More »
Well hellooooo friends. Somehow Halloween is done and dusted, the stores are full of Christmas decorations and I’m personally not quite ready for the holiday season! Let me have my cold, rainy November days for a few weeks first, please. I kind of love the bare-treed, gloomy-skied, icy aesthetic of this month. It creates a hyggeligt feeling inside 🙂
I write a lot about how we feed our bodies on Just to Claireify… but what about how we feed our minds?
🎶 School’s out for summer! 🎶 Preschool and elementary school are out and with them, many of the gatherings and to-do’s that have filled our past few weeks. Community involvement is wonderful and we’ve had so much fun with the kids… and I’m excited to have some free time again.
Last month, in the midst of my own major post-holiday declutter, I learned a new-to-me term: osoji, which Google tells me literally means “big clean” in Japanese. It’s not a new tradition at all, however–it dates back to circa 800 A.D. At that time, the Imperial Court was ritually cleansed of soot at the end of each year to welcome the deity of the new year (