One of my family's Christmas cookie traditions is making these fabulous gingersnaps. I remember helping to roll the balls of dough in sugar, standing on a chair in the kitchen and peering through the oven door as the cookies baked. The rolls of dough are easily made and frozen, which makes them easy to pull…
Author: Amanda @ Farmgirlwrites
School and Back Again
Merry Christmas Eve, my friends! It's been a crazy couple of weeks, since the last time you heard from me was in the midst of finals. Thankfully, they've been finished for over a week, I have decent grades, and now that I'm home, I can eat, sleep, read and repeat. I'm so thrilled to start…
Paper-writing during Finals (told through tweets)
Last night, I came up with the idea that I could motivate myself by live-tweeting my paper that I was writing. Yeah, so instead of live-tweeting a TV show or movie, I tweeted about my paper. Due to procrastination, it took a little while, but thank goodness for Twitter. Reproduced for your entertainment. Yes, I…
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No Lifeguard on Duty
I saw a picture on Instagram a few hours ago, a handful of kids piled on a colored plastic slide that's the length of my leg, but from the looks on their faces, you would've thought that it was the carnival at dusk with cotton candy and a ferris wheel. I think the holidays…