thankful because friends and grilled romaine

It's September. We've entered the month of "please start turning to autumn, please let's leave summer behind," if you're like me. I'm ready for jeans and closed-toed shoes and smells other than burning asphalt.

As of late I've been thinking of topics to write about. I've found that it's frighteningly easy for me to return again and again to morosity. It feels strangely natural to release the fact that I am encountering a difficult moment in my life, that most of the time my situation feels hopeless with only slight bouts of light. And maybe it is just natural, since I am human and sinful and will not ever get it right.

ellyn hopperSeptember 2, 2015 Comment

a grace taker

Thoughtsellyn hopperAugust 14, 2015Comment

butter cake with milk chocolate icing

This baby... Is not your common cake. No, sir. This cake, it's one of a kind.

Honestly, this guy didn't come out as I intended him to. I set out to create a fluffy yellow cake to pair with creamy milk chocolate- ya know, the traditional birthday cake type. It came out quite different, but I'm seriously glad it did. I've never eaten a layer cake like this one.

Cake, Chocolate, Dessertellyn hopperJuly 18, 2015Comment

mostly healthy chocolate chip banana bread

Banana bread is one of things that simply troubles me. No matter how many times I've tried, I can't seem to get it right. Too crunchy on the outside. Completely raw in the middle. Dumped out of the pan too early. Too wet, too dry; too bland, too rich; too short, too tall. It's like a terrible Dr. Seuss book.

Until now.

Breakfast, Chocolate, Fruitellyn hopperJuly 5, 2015Comment

normal morning yogurt

I don't even know what to say anymore.

So much. So much has changed, so much going on. I hardly know how to sort my thoughts, which emotions to believe, what words to speak. I just want to get back to the baseline, I think.

My husband is out of town for work this week, and I think the strange hiatus has given me some space to sort. Don't get me wrong, I miss him like all get out and I can't wait for his return. But I think the timing of this is quite important. As I've been thinking, processing, journaling, spending time alone, I've reflected. And the fact that has shown its face is that this year has been the most different and perhaps difficult of all.

Breakfast, Fruitellyn hopperJune 25, 2015 Comments

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