Traditionally after the wedding the bride and groom exchange gifts. Or so I was told. So for my gift, my new beloved husband told me he would finance my LASIK surgery. YAY! My eyes are horribly myopic, around –3.75 plus…
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Where are we? Who knows? What are we? Connected at the hip, smiling and apparently I am on the right most of the time. In the right and happy. Clearly marriage agrees with me.
Our darling Butterfinger. She is the best dog ever. Seriously. We can walk her at 5 pm on Friday and not walk her until 2 pm Saturday. That’s right, our ten year old terrier lets us slept in, make and…
When I invite guests over, normally I cook a mix of Turkish and American foods. My repertoire of food is what I learned from my mother and the Joy of Cooking. When I have dinner parties the main dish is…
In February both my Mother-in-law and aunt-in-law had birthdays. We weren’t quite sure what to get them. We decided instead to treat them to a day trip. Beypazarı is about an hour from Ankara towards Istanbul. The city known for…
Diners! Oh! There is nothing better than crispy bacon and syrup with pancakes! Yum Oh Yum!
There is SO much snow here! Ankara does get some snow, but usually not more than a couple inches at a times. Yesterday morning I woke up and there were a few inches of snow on the ground and it…
Seriously. This week we had a couple of anniversaries. Monday, the 14th was our second anniversary of our engagement. We had left San Diego and were in NH on a stopover on the way to Turkey. Bulent took me shoe…
This man loves dogs. Any dog. My husband is as burly and masculine as you can be, but get him near any type of canine and he is like butter. Which is truly adorable. We spend a lot of time…
Last Sunday I flew home to the US for a whirlwind visit. We had many plans to do many things. While was able to do most of those things, we had to plan and re-plan ad revise our plans. This…