Cozy Finds From Our Home to Yours ⟶
On the first day of the 12 Days of Creating, I lovingly gave my home: A beautifully creaky screen door. Talk about beauty into brokenness. The front of my house has been my vain embarrassment at the cottage for awhile now. We have an issue with some of the siding rotting, and this old girl…
What happens when culture pushes us to “move on” from Christmas? Sometimes it feels like we haven’t even laid our heads down to rest on Christmas night before we’re being whisked into the next thing. Without fail, it leaves me melancholy. My sweet friend, who recommended the book Living the Christian Year, sent me screenshots…
Two weeks ago, I shared with you all about how I’m fighting back against home discontent. In this season of trying to save money, I’m focusing on low- to no-cost ways to love the home I already have. Today, I wanted to share Part 2 of my series. These have been my go-to summer strategies…
I have a deeply confusing love/hate relationship with my cottage. I love this old place: the tongue-and-groove woodwork, the creaky floors, the lake views. But no matter how much progress we make here, I am prone to seasons of discontent. For me, discontent tends to creep up when I’m discouraged about our lack of pace…
Spring melted into summer in a pretty insignificant way here at the cottage. It could be that because we’ve been sheltering at home since the second week of March, we let the subtleties of the changing season escape us. Now, our central Florida drought has been replaced with afternoon monsoons, and I’m putting babies to…
When I found myself newly (and unexpectedly) pregnant last July, my head began swimming with nursery ideas. In those first few months, I felt confident I was carrying a girl, so most of my nursery ideas looked decidedly more pink. My motherly intuition pulled an abrupt-180 about twenty-four hours before my gender reveal ultrasound. I…