Book Review: Committed: A Love Story

Josh has wanted to go back to school to get his MBA since the moment he threw his cap in the air at Concordia.  He patiently waited his turn while I went back to school, while we bought a dog, while we bought a house...  Well guess what?  It's finally his turn!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Last month, he went to an information session.  When reporting back, he let me know that the families of MBA students are called MBA orphans.  After laughing at how silly (and kind of offensive) that is, he turned to me completely serious, "You are going to read so many books."

In fact, I had started one a friend gave me FOREVER ago that very night, Committed: A Love Story by Elizabeth Gilbert.  She is the author of Eat, Pray, Love.  This book is completely different.  It is the story of a personal journey to come to terms with marriage so she and her longtime love could stay together.  She does a lot of reporting on research.  Quite technical.

It is an interesting read, something I would recommend if you wanted to learn more about the history or marriage in a more accessible way than a text book.  It is absolutely not a light, beach read.  It was good, but it did take me over a month to read.

New Favorite: Mulled Wine

We had our second annual Christmas wine tasting party last night.  To supplement the tasting, we wanted to have some other drinks as well.  Josh picked out his beer and I went searching for something else.  I discovered mulled wine on Pinterest. This is the recipe I adapted, and it is super simple.

Crock Pot Mulled Wine
1 bottle of red wine
4 cups of apple cider
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 cup Archer Farms mulling spices
1 orange sliced

Put everything on the crock pot and heat on high until hot.  We heated ours for about 2 hours before the party started and it was nice and warm.

We left all the spices in and as the party went on, it got nice and spicy.  I would say the sweet spot for the spices was at the 4-5 hour mark, but I LOVE Christmas-y spices.  You can filter out the spices when you feel it is done (if it lasts that long).

This is basically warm, Christmas sangria.  Yum!