This weekend that we spent painting was pretty successful. Even though we completely underestimated the time that it would take us to do this job, we were able to get three of the eight(!) rooms painted. It was really hard work, but Pete and I were lucky enough to have my amazing mom to come in and paint, which was a huge help.

While Pete and I were painting at the new place, my sister and her boyfriend spent the weekend at my apartment. To break a bit from painting they picked me up and we went to the Logan Square Kitchen Pastry Market on Saturday. There were bakeries and pastry chefs from all over Chicago and some friendly faces like Floriole Bakery, Rare Bird Preserves, and Nice Cream. When we stopped to say hi to Kris at Nice Cream she allowed us to sample all four of her winter ice cream flavors, all of which were delicious! My sister bought a couple half pints and I brought home with me a pint of the Gingersnap Ice Cream with Cookie Pieces. It was fun, but we left soon after since it was so packed and I had to get back to work.

When I got back to my apartment on Monday, I was so happy to see two giant homemade chocolate chip cookies left for me by my sister! So you know what I did?? I warmed up the cookie and topped it with a scoop of my new Nice Cream flavor. The weekend was good, but this was a great way to end it!