A pretty Summer peach galette that combines a flaky, rustic pie crust with vanilla scented, cinnamon-spiced peaches. Easier than pie, but just as tasty, this simple, sweet dessert can easily be adapted to feature whatever seasonal fruit you have on hand (peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, blueberries… you name it!).

Okay, where did we leave off?

We had just sold our house in Tacoma. I wrote my last post the morning before we left, and fast forward to now: writing this while the baby sleeps, from our tiny, temporary basement AirBnb apartment in northern Virginia.

Honestly, this move has been tough.

The housing market here is incredibly challenging and so, so expensive. We did a lot of internet research before we got here, had our loan application already approved and underwritten, and were fairly optimistic at the outset. But finding a new home has taken a lot longer than we’d hoped.

We’ve look at dozens of houses (and hundreds of listings online), and made several offers that fell through, starting with a house we really loved that turned out to have a money pit of an environmental disaster in the backyard in the form of an ancient, leaking heating oil tank; a full price offer that turned into a bidding war well over what the house was worth; and most notably, the beautiful house we couldn’t believe was still on the market… until we discovered that it was the scene of a brutal and tragic double murder right before Christmas.

Seriously.

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