still a work in progress
After finally choosing my word of the year (you can read about that here ), I was ready to embrace everything. Even if it was just a gentle embrace. To embrace change. Embrace newness. Embrace people.
And I’m not going to lie. It’s been hard. Really hard. Continue reading “Hard to Embrace”
New year. New decade. New start. At least it should be. And it is. But for the past couple years I’ve chosen a word of the year. And this year I’ve been struggling to choose one. I feel like I am wasting time. Losing focus. Spinning a bit. Needing a direction. Continue reading “My Word: EMBRACE”
We came upon this tradition kind of accidentally. The kids were young. Grade school and younger. And we were all sick. With a really horrible flu. The kind of flu where our bodies ached like we had run three marathons while being hit in the head with bricks. Continue reading “Life in a Nest”
Christmas Eve is just over a week away and that means it’s time to start thinking about one of our favorite traditions of the season. Because once the stockings are hung by the chimney with care, and the children are nestled all snug in their beds, my husband and I like to sneak away and find our Naughty Stocking. Continue reading “The Naughty Stocking 2”
Each year on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, we throw a party to kick off the season. You can read about the 2018 party here. We make Christmas and Advent wreaths, decorate cookies, drink cocoa, watch Christmas movies, and write letters to Santa. Continue reading “Cookies, Cookies, Cookies”
A few of my friends do this too, so it isn’t necessarily original, but sleeping by the Christmas tree is a time honored tradition in our home. This year was the seventeenth year.
We used to do our Christmas Tree Sleepover the night after decorating the tree. Now we do it when it fits best in our schedules, and sometimes more than once a season. Because you really can’t have too many sleepovers by the tree. Continue reading “Christmas Tree Sleepovers”
Over the years my kids have made it their mission to find the most beautiful, ugly Christmas tree they can find each year. You can read about our experience last year here. This year was no different. Except that maybe the ugly beauty came more from perseverance than from the tree itself. Continue reading “Oh! Christmas Tree!”
We have a local art museum that is near and dear to us. It’s located right inside our house as a matter of fact. Continue reading “Gallery Wall”
I was recently talking with my girls about the things that stand out from their childhood. And specifically things that I did that made each of their childhoods memorable. Continue reading ““Warm Showers””
This year we made Thanksgiving easy. Really easy. Thanksgiving weekend is always busy for our family. Kids come home from college, sometimes with friends in tow. There’s the Turkey Bowl in the morning (a football game my “boys” play in every year), the actual Thanksgiving meal, Black Friday Shopping, the Civil War football game, and our Annual Wreath Party/Open House. I love every bit of it. Every single bit. But it is a lot of work. And sometimes I have to remind myself how much I love it when I’m up to my eyeballs in my to-do list. So I decided to do it different this year. And make it easier.
Unmastered 