A Cozy Kitchen's Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Frosting

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A Cozy Kitchen's Pumpkin Sheet Cake with Brown Butter Frosting

Yesterday morning I woke up next to a 26 year old! It would have been more exciting had that time not been 4 AM. *insert fussy face here* One of the caveats of working as a hospital RN is that each year the hospital can give you a max of 3 "mandatories". Mandatories are - don't come in, and if you want to get paid for the day you have to use PTO time. Because of the inevitable politics associated, there are a lot of union rules surrounding these mandatories...

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Apple Galette

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How is it November already?? You know the saying, “the days are long, but the years are short?” Well it feels like the days are short, and the years are shorter. Granted I don’t have any kids waking me up at all hours of the night, so maybe I can’t apply this phrase to my life. These past weeks have been filled with work, work, and more work. And the time that I do have off seems to be gone in the blink of an eye. Today is my one day off in this 7 day week, and the accumulation of the emotional stress from the past couple weeks seems to have caught up with me this morning – I slept into until....

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Strawberry Rhubarb Bars

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One of our favorite things to do Sunday afternoon is to watch the latest Bucketlist Family video on YouTube. If you’ve never heard about them, they are a young couple with 2 of the cutest kids in the world, who sold everything a couple years ago and now are a full-time traveling family. When we found out that they were also visiting Iceland and Norway this summer,  I was so excited! The thought of potentially running into them (yes, yesI realize how unlikely that would actually be) had me as giddy as a kid on Christmas. Sadly I don’t think that will happen as they recently left Iceland and will likely visit Norway before we get there. But seeing...

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Pear Upside Down Cake

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Lately I have been having a difficult time being content with the present. I’m continually looking forward to the things yet to come, whether it be our upcoming vacation this summer, moving back west if all goes well with Alex’s residency placement, potentially fulfilling my dream of moving to Italy short-term to immerse ourselves in Italian culture, language, and cuisine, or maybe at some point...

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Peanut Butter Reese's Ice Cream

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Peanut Butter Reese's Ice Cream

This past Christmas was quieter than usual as my husband and I celebrated with just the two of us here in our tiny apartment. Not only was it the first time that we weren’t with family for the holidays, but also it was our first married Christmas (eeep!) and our first white Christmas. Well technically it was a white Christmas as there was snow on the ground outside, but the rainstorm that came through that day tried hard to melt all of the snow! We cuddled together with...

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