Comments on: Weekly Coffee Date

By: Biz

Biz — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:17:34 +0000

I saw the location on Instagram and had to google it to find out where it was – gorgeous and it went on my bucket list of places to visit.

My living room remodel is finally finished! Last year our roof started to leak but between trips to Mayo clinic it got put on the back burner. His dying wish to me was to get the roof replaces last winter and two weeks after he died, I had it replaced. There was some drywall damage in the corner of the living room, which I finally got around to fixing in June. Um, turns out the whole front of my house was rotten the way the insulation was installed and the whole front of my house had to be replaced.

My friend did all the decorating. I hated spending any time in the living room because that’s where my husband always was when I left the house and came home from work. It was a tiny stab of grief every time I looked at his recliner and he wasn’t in it.

What my friend did for me was priceless – she honored my husband but made a space where I can feel comfortable and I know I’ll make great new memories in this space.

You can check it out here – I sometimes have to pinch myself that it’s actually my house!

http://www.mybizzykitchen.com/2015/10/26/i-live-in-a-magazine/

Hugs!

By: Jen Westbrook

Jen Westbrook — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 16:30:02 +0000

I stumbled upon your book at my local library this week and have been quite drawn into your life story, staying up late to read it after my kids and husband have gone to bed. So well-written. Although my life looks very different from yours, I can relate to your struggles with body image and eating for all the wrong reasons. Even today, at 40, I still always want to lose 10 or 15 pounds and feel so guilty when I over-indulge at a meal and beat myself up for several days. I think many women can get inspiration from your story. I am looking forward to finishing your book and following your blog. Thanks for being brave enough to share it! Jen

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:18:08 +0000

I moved in with my partner fifteen years ago, and I still miss my darling apartment with its similarly-sized kitchen. I have told several people about your book and also recommended it on GoodReads and Facebook. Now I’m at work taking a break from a too-huge project. I just finished eating a Milky Way Midnight bar which I bought at the gift shop (I work at a hospital) – when I bought it I told myself I’d only eat half. I even ate half, sealed the remaining part in the wrapper with a binder clip, and tucked it in my desk drawer. But it was singing so loudly, I just ate the rest of it to shut it UP. In the plus column of nutrition, I haven’t purchased any candy corn this season and do not plan to. This weekend, I wrote a poem of apology to my thighs. They’re awesome, and I’ve been mean to them because I don’t think they look right. To hell with that – they carry me around every day don’t they?! So, that’s what’s new with me. Peace, Annie

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:32:59 +0000

LOVED meeting you last weekend. Pretty much the highlight of my life! I am so excited for you and your new adventures! xoxo

By: Shelly

Shelly — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:11:52 +0000

Awww, Andie, I’m so sad we never got the chance to meet up in Manhattan, but I feel like you living there for the last 2 years brought us closer together. :) I recently moved back home to California and I miss NYC like mad.

Also, I’m so glad you had some time to live with Sabrina. I haven’t lived with friends since college more than 6 years ago and there’s definitely something special about living with your best friends and doing everything together. I’ll always miss that time in my life!

Congrats on the move with Daniel (and so excited you guys are back together!!). Can’t wait to see your Cookbook!

Shelly

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:48:14 +0000

Mmmm, yes, the letting go of the old to let in the new. I’ve been there too. You have many wonderful years ahead of you, my friend.

For me, I’m switching up some of my medication and the transition has left me rather melancholy. I find joy in my daughter mostly, and this delicious up of coffee (Donut House Chocolate Covered Donut flavor…mmmm) but everything else is just trying to survive at the moment. I find no happiness in my job, my home, my place in life. The days come and go, living for the weekends when I can actually spend some good times with my family. But I’m adrift.

Good thing is that I know that this, too, will pass. These dips in my mood are temporary and I just have to wait for it to pass. In the meantime, I will continue to live vicariously through your adventures and those of others until the day I can get up and start making some of my own.

Have a wonderful week!

By: Sue L'Hommedieu

Sue L'Hommedieu — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:19:44 +0000

I can’t imagine cooking dinner in that tiny kitchen, much less writing a cookbook from it. You are amazing.

By: Kerstin

Kerstin — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:21:59 +0000

I’ve moved 30 times in as many years so the notion of farewell to beloved places is a familiar one. In fact, I will always feel a little torn apart inside with my love for cities in different countries on two continents that felt like home. I loved how you described the melancholy of moving out and into a new chapter that sounds so wonderful and exciting! Good luck with it all! Your post reminded me of one of my favorite quotes and I thought you might like it, too: “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” ~Anatole France

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 01:59:42 +0000

When I moved in with my Daniel (Micah) we had to hacksaw our box spring in half just to fit it up the stairs of our perfect place. Even if we had known that box springs are actually sold in pieces we couldn’t have afforded them anyways. Most people think of social media as this embarrassing documentation of youth, but I wish it would have been around to document dumb shit like that. The only people embarrassed by their pasts haven’t lived long enough to find it funny.

By: Eleanor

Eleanor — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 23:07:10 +0000

I just got home from a weekend in Paris. On Friday I celebrated 2 months since I moved to England from Australia and the end of the first term of teaching in a new school. The challenge now is to make another friend!