Real Home, Real Family, Real Life
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This inspiring, motivating and comforting guest post comes from Sandy at 4 Reluctant Entertainers. Sandy began encouraging me to practice hospitality before she ever knew who I was. You’re going to love her too. Kimba’s like my sister, so when she said, hey can you guest for me? I was on it! That’s just what [...]
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Please welcome Rachel Ann from Home Sanctuary. In Rachel’s own words, “”Home Sanctuary” sums up a lot of what my life is about. As a wife and mom, I’m always looking for ways to make our home life a refuge and place of grace for the ones I love most.” ‘And remember one thing, my [...]
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There was a moment this weekend when poster board, marker and “Mom, I’m bored!” collided. I decided it was high time for a summer list. This wasn’t my idea. Meg from Whatever has shared her family’s summer list for the last two years. If I wasn’t super lazy, I would go get you the links [...]
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A Guest Post: Welcome Tanna Clark from Complete Organizing Solutions. Tanna is a professional organizer with a hubby and 3 kiddos. She offers practical ideas and inspiration for getting organized as well as professional organizing services at Complete Organizing Solutions. Oh, how I need her help!!!! First, I just want to say thank you to [...]
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I’m thrilled to welcome Amy Clark from MomAdvice.com. MomAdvice is packed with money-saving advice, recipes, home management inspiration, and creative parenting ideas. In other words, it’s awesome! In light of the current economic situation, I asked Amy to share her experience during her month-long No Spend Challenge. This February our family decided to embark on [...]
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They’re clean and pretty on the outside. But inside, they’re a horrifying jumbled mess. How very like me. If you don’t look past the surface, you may think that I have it all together. If we meet somewhere, chances are good that I will have a smile on my face and matching shoes on my [...]
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photo: Pensiero The past few days, I’ve been thinking a lot about connections and friendships with other women. As the economic situation in our country (and the world) deteriorates, relationships, connections and support are becoming more important in ways that I had never considered before. Do you feel like you have enough real-life support and [...]
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photo: La tartine gourmet Do you like to entertain friends, family and neighbors? Maybe a stranger or two? Or are you reluctant to open your home because it’s too much work and too much stress? That second sentence describes my instincts pretty well. I tend to feel like entertaining and fellowship at our home is [...]
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I don’t want to write this post. Like really, really don’t want to write it. Not because I don’t think it’s important or because it hasn’t been on my mind. But because I don’t like what it makes me acknowledge about myself. I like to pretend, even to myself, that I have my priorities perfectly [...]
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We had a power outage last Friday evening that lasted for just a few hours. I immediately went into Laura Ingalls mode (minus the braids, of course.) Lighting candles all over (mostly because the batteries in the flashlights were all dead) and firing up the fireplace so my munchkins would stay warm. In proper Laura [...]
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Photo credit: Powi Here we are at week 2 (or is it week 3?) of our series on Building a Soft Place to Land. Yay! I managed to keep it going for more than 1 week! Baby steps, people. Baby steps. All of your comments from last week on this post and this post have [...]
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photo credit: Amanda Woodward Well girls, here we go. Day 1 of our hope-to-be-weekly series called Building a Soft Place to Land. I wish we could all sit down around the kitchen table with a cup of coffee and chat. I feel utterly inadequate to write on this topic mostly because I don’t think I [...]
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Today’s post is all about being real. With all of you and with myself. I love blogging. I love sharing my life and my home with you, my dear friends. And, in turn, getting to know you through glimpse into your lives. But it’s just that. A glimpse. As much as I love blogging, I [...]
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It would seem that I’m the one that shows up to a party on Saturday and when you answer the door in your jammies, I say, “What do you mean the party was last night? But I made brownies!” My friend, Emily from Chatting at the Sky, hosted the most wonderful everyday unwrapped party where [...]
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I woke up on Saturday morning and could hardly believe it was November. The sugar crash of Halloween was over. The costumes were put away rolled up in a ball on the floor. And I felt the same urge that I feel every year at this time. The urge to blow right by Thanksgiving and [...]
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Does your family feel welcome in your home? The topic of having a more welcoming home has been on my mind lately. When I think about having a warm and welcoming home, I usually think about how guests feel when they enter my home. But lately, I’ve been wondering how my own family feels when [...]
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We’ll get back to our regularly scheduled fun tomorrow. Today I want to share something that has been on my mind and my heart for the past few weeks. I feel like I’m going out on a limb here because writing a post about decorating or painting something would be so much easier. I don’t [...]
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So do you want to see my favorite thing about the new house? You’ll never in a million years guess what it is. Go ahead. Try and guess. I’ll wait… OK. Done guessing? Let me show you. Where does this door go? Oh, it’s a closet. My oldest son’s closet to be exact. I know. [...]
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Packed the following: 87 candles – I have a problem. 3 bags of rocks for decorating – I hope hubby isn’t reading this. He’ll choke me for having to move bags of rocks. 32 cans of spray paint – I wish I were kidding Today I also: Wanted to yell at my children 7 times [...]
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Something that I read this week got me thinking about the topic of conscious choices and how they relate to the ways I spend my time. I have a fixed amount of time each day and it can be filled with meaningful activities, relationships and accomplishments. But the choices I make – or don’t make [...]
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