The Glory of the Garden Lies In More Than Meets the Eye
It’s September, and the garden will soon begin its gentle decline. It won’t be long until the ground freezes and nothing can grow again until next spring. But the lessons from the garden—the patient acceptance of what is here, the challenging reframe of messiness into abundance, and the hopeful...
Building a New Bar
The Coronavirus Home Improvement Chronicles – Part 3 Truth be told, we were actually talking about moving. It wasn’t that we didn’t like our house, we really do, but when we moved here five years ago we believed that my husband’s work-from-home gig would only last a couple months...
Then We Made a Bed
It was so good to sleep just a little closer to the ground on a solid bed with a pretty headboard behind it. A 10-year dream had finally come true....
It All Started With a Fan
We figured the handful of tasks that we brought home would keep us busy for a little while, something to distract us from the fact that we couldn't take the family out of the house and all we had was our work, school, and fruitless attempts to keep us...
My Journey from Zero to Mom Hero in the Kitchen
I've stopped seeing my kitchen as a place where my working mom homemaking skills go to die. Instead, it is a place where I can cook healthy meals for my family and bond with my husband or teach my children skills that will help them through college and beyond....