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Vegan Pumpkin Glazed Cookies : Wheat Version

You know, debt sucks. Getting out of it is such a slow, patient process.

Sometimes I wish I could hurry up time just so we could be out of it faster, because until it’s off our backs, I will continue to feel it’s burden. But one thing I’m learning is the joy of simple things. Creating things, cleaning, snuggling. Nothing big, nothing even that significant. But when I think about all the good things put together, I have quite a life. Despite our debt. These cookies came out of an intense desire to create something. You know that itch to just get your mind off things & create. I was hankering for a something soft, kind of melt-in-your mouth cookie.

Since we’re all obsessed with pumpkin, & rightly so (it is that time of year, after all), I decided to do my take on the cookie. This recipe...

The best of pumpkin: My 10 fave gluten-free + vegan recipes

salad & soup, main dish, dessert & bread, best of recipes

Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere, I know.

I’m guilty as anyone of the pumpkin-mania that takes over the blogosphere this time of year–pumpkin pasta, & tomorrow, pumpkin cookies. If you hate pumpkin, forgive me, but maybe these recipes will get you to change your mind.

Here’s the truth, pumpkin is super versatile.

Proof: I’ve scoured my favorite blogs & sites & compiled a variety of lip-smacking pumpkin-ish delights for your viewing & cooking pleasure.

So check ’em out, pin ’em, & get cookin’.

(all recipes are vegan & gluten-free–yipee!)

Feel free to pin the top image (it’s mine) from my site, but for all the recipes below, please click on the recipe name below each image & it will take you to the direct site where you can pin the image & recipe. Thank you, you’re a dear.

In no...

Expensive Habits: Dating My Husband

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(Look! My hair, so blonde, so short. In August 2010–3 months pregnant with Salem & he still can carry me! What a strong man.)

I mentioned last week that I was stoked because we had tickets to an Air Force ball.

The thing is, these things cost money–I mean, lots, if you’re living in my world.

$40 per ticket + babysitting.

Add that to the fact that I didn’t have anything to wear. No, I don’t have a pregnancy formal, or actually, any formal for that matter–I got rid of all my prom/beauty pageant dresses (did I ever mention I was royalty for my town in high school? I was.) in college.

Our current date budget for each month is $125.

We never touch our date budget. It’s sacred territory. Joseph & I both know that if dates go, so does our sanity, our love, the zest of our marriage. Dates...