emilyjacob

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Spring Shopping

Interested in finding some great spring shopping deals?  I’ve been researching a bit over the past two weeks, and found some great websites that I hope you will enjoy perusing. :: Flip Flops :: Visit this site for great prices…

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

While Mom and Dad have been out West the past two weeks, I have fully enjoyed taking advantage of all my ’empty-house’ nights and days, through hosting and being hosted. First up, was dinner with an amazing, brilliant single lady…

Play on Words

Today, I was sitting in Starbucks with my friend drinking a decaf, extra-hot Mocha, and had a couple fun moments where certain language and vocabulary leapt out of my tongue, and I was sort of shocked at where it came…

Attention, Grocery Shoppers!

H-Mart Ever heard of it? Located at 9639 Lost Knife Road in Gaithersburg, this place is definitely worth a trip. Today, on lunch break, my friend Melinda and I visited the store to check out their produce.  It was unbelievable:…

: the awakening :

On Sunday evening, Brett and I had the privilege of attending “The Awakening,” a campus-wide worship and prayer night at the University of Maryland inside the Chapel.  Along with 300+ attendees from various Christian organizations on campus, UMD students from…

hit the road, jack…

Can you believe it?  This past Saturday, we had an unusually wonderful hint of spring.  It was a high of 70.  Seeing as Peter was in Costa Rica, and his baby blue BMW needed to take a little spin, Mom…

"Dessert-ed"

So, my girlfriends Britt and Steph and Lauren and I are hosting a Valentines Day Party for our single friends.  It is called “Dessert-ed.”  Get the gist?  🙂 Here is the poem that Britt and I wrote for the invitation…

Lately

what have i been doing lately? ::meeting jade ::   Last Saturday, I got to go meet Jon and Jenni’s newest little addition, Jade Lydia.   the smiths are like family to me, and it is always fun to be…

muffins

i have been in the muffin mood these past few weeks.  last week, i made pumpkin-rum-currant muffins, which were very yummy…and tonight, i noticed that the fresh ricotta cheese was about to go bad, so i whipped it out of…

sherpa land

Sherpa Land.  That is what I have been calling Maryland right now.  It is absolutely freezing cold!  And to make matters worse, our work building banned space heaters from the suites/offices, so now the joke is that we all are…