**LONG POST AHEAD** Months ago, when it was announced that the Healthy Living Summit would be held in my hometown of Chicago, I got really excited! To be honest, it wasn’t because I necessarily wanted to go to the conference, but because DOZENS of my favorite bloggers would be coming to our fair city! Then, [...]
Ok, I promise, this is the last birthday-related post since, well, my birthday was almost a week ago. On Saturday night, a group of my closest friends and family joined Adam and I at Gilt Bar, a new gastropub here in Chicago. I’d heard a few great things about it in recent months, but the [...]
Have you all missed me?? I know I’ve missed you all… but it’s been a SUPER busy week full of celebrations that went way past my bedtime most nights. Therefore, blogging has taken a back seat. But I’m back today, and make sure you’re in a comfortable seat, you have about 3 days worth of [...]
It’s no secret that I’m a proud Chicagoan. I love the city, the people, the amazing skyline, and, as long as I can remember, I’ve loved the food. There are quite a few things that Chicago is famous for, including deep-dish pizza, Italian beef, and probably most famously, the Chicago-style hot dog red hot. Adam [...]
Today was one of those days that made me realize how lucky I am to be a part of this wonderful blogging community. Who else can say that they have friends from LITERALLY all over the country, many of whom they’ve never met in person?? I started my day bright and early by meeting up [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on January 2, 2010
in family
After our first attempt at our honeymoon failed miserably, we set out on Thursday (Christmas eve) for our second attempt. We awoke early at 3 a.m. to catch the cab we’d called for 3:30. When the taxi hadn’t shown up by 3:45, we were both thinking “here we go again!” but soon enough our taxi [...]
I know, I’ve been gone for a while… getting back to reality after the crazy and amazing week I had last week has been a little difficult, and that includes blogging. But I’m back, and ready with a week-long recap for you! Are you sitting down? Get comfortable, this is going to be a long [...]
After work today, I had to drive out to my mom’s office for some wedding related stuff. My mom’s office is in a suburb which is right near the day camp that I work at all summer. This suburb has all sorts of wonderful things in it that we don’t yet have out here in [...]
Only a food blogger… I swear, only a food blogger would do what I did at her bachelorette party. There was much drinking (as was expected) and a great time was had by all… There were quite a few embarrassing pictures taken of me, mostly involving odd facial expressions and looks of shock while opening [...]
After days and days of not having dinner together, when Adam offered to take us to dinner, I took him up on it! We hadn’t had dinner together since Sunday! We debated back and forth about where to go, and when Adam suggested Bonefish Grill, again, I took him up on it! We’ve been to [...]