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Our Home
It’s official, our home is now on the market. The sign and lock have been out for almost two weeks now, but due to the MLS site being down last week, our home has officially been listed for six days. There are certainly plenty of mixed emotions as we begin the process of saying goodbye to what has been our…
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Decorating our home for us & Framed French Words
Our home has been a work in progress over the three years we’ve lived here. We moved here from a 700 square foot apartment, so it’s taken a while to fill in the rooms and decide how to decorate each space. During this time, I’ve also discovered what styles I like and the things that make a house a home,…
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Reading Lately
Each year I have a pile of books that I want to read, and as the year progresses, I add more to the list and tend to put off some of the older ones. This year I’ve been trying to read books that I already own {with the exception of two}, before purchasing any new ones. There are quite a…
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DIY Embellished Flour Sack Towels
Did you know that March is National Craft Month? I didn’t until the other day when I got my JoAnn’s flier in the mail. In light of this event, I thought I’d try to share a simple craft with you each week this month that would be something easy to do over the weekend {or during a nap time if…
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Instagram and Photography
Over the past seven months I’ve slowly learned how to use my smart phone. There’s still much to uncover, I’m still trying to add my contacts, but for right now, I’m content being able to check email on the go, see the weather forecast, make out my shopping list, check Facebook {although I’m really trying to limit that one}, and…
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The books that didn’t make the list
We are book people. If you had looked in our house a few weeks ago you would have seen piles of books in our bedroom, bins of books in the garage, and bookshelves full of them. We’ve moved five times in our seven and a half years of marriage, and each time we go through our books, get rid of…
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A lesson learned through spaghetti
We were driving to the beach for a week of vacation with my husband’s family. Our oldest two girls had left home earlier that morning with their grandparents, so the car was quiet with just my husband, our 17 month old son and our 9 week old daughter. The quiet was a nice break–no questions, no complaining, no bickering–a nice…
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Sausage and Tortellini Soup
During the winter months there’s not much better to me for dinner than a warm bowl of soup with a slice of freshly baked bread. Soups are fairly easy to make, they’re relatively inexpensive, and almost always delicious. We visited my sister in law and her family right after New Year’s, and she made an amazing sausage and tortellini…
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It’s never too late for a post about love
The internet was bursting with posts last week about love, relationships, romance, and sacrifice. I enjoy reading different perspectives on love and how it impacts our lives. We were created to love and be loved and yet this is one of the most challenging concepts to flesh out in daily life. Why is it so hard? How can we lose…
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Seven months and my fears are lifted
When I found out I was pregnant with my fourth child I was scared. Our son was just six months old and we were still adjusting to the fact that he had Down Syndrome. Would this child also have some sort of special need? How would I be able to truly care for both of them? Surely someone is going…