Fresh Recipes | Strawberry Lemonade Cocktail

Happy Monday everyone!

I’m writing this late Sunday night, pretty content with my kitty on my lap and a successful week of balancing work + working on the apartment + life. I finally feel like this is becoming my home now, even if I only have been to 2 towns in the area and only know 1 zip code…I suppose we’ll be here awhile so what’s the rush, right?

I do have some disappointing news, however. With all of this settling in, new jobs {starting the 3rd this week!), new schools, new routines, etc, I’ve been finding balancing real life with blog life has been a bit more difficult than I had first foreseen. But, because I absolutely love writing and taking with you guys, there is no way in Hades that I would shut it all down.

So, after much consideration and thought, I’ve decided to switch to a Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday schedule instead of the usual everyday, in order to really maintain quality content and interaction. I would much rather put out 4 days of heart felt material than 6 days of forced, underdeveloped content. Of course, I hope that this change is only temporary, and that we’ll get back into the normal swing of things once everything calms down a bit. I’m always open for suggestions, so please feel free to comment/message/email me about what you think about the new set-up or about anything, really. I’m a pretty good listener if you give me the chance :)

Phew, after all that I think I need a drink–how ’bout you? One of the strangest things about moving to Virginia is that you can’t buy hard alcohol in the grocery store, you have to go to a speciality store instead (grocery stores do have beer + wine). Jeff and I seriously wandered the aisles for 20 minutes the first time we went to the grocery store, thinking we’d gone crazy.

But once we got the essentials restocked in our (adorable) new bar area, we were ready to experiment.

Santa Cruz Organics makes one of my favorite pre-made lemonades EVER–the perfect combo of sweet + tart–and without the crazy additives found in the usual packaged lemonade. Jeff’s been absolutely obsessed with it lately, so we decided to take their Strawberry Lemonade and experiment with our new ingredients to turn it into a little reminder of summer as we, sadly, near the end of the season.