As we sat on the couch this evening watching Oregon mollywhop Florida State in the Rose Bowl, I announced to my husband of 12 days that I wanted to start a blog. Being the incredibly supportive & tech savvy man that he is, he helped me get my domain up and running in no time. What better way to start the new year than with a new blog? Or rather, what better day to start a blog than January 1, 2015?

2014 was a whirlwind of cooking & crafting. The crafting was for our recent wedding. It’s funny how I will remember 2014 as the year we got married, when really I should remember it as the year we spent engaged (well, 10 months of it). The cooking was both for nourishment & to keep my sanity during the aforementioned engagement.

I am a rookie. I’m a rookie Christian, a rookie wife, a rookie blogger, a rookie chef, & a rookie crafter. I don’t think I will ever feel like an expert in many of those categories. But if in 2015 I can honor God & love my husband while making cookies & writing about it I will count that as a win.