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And so this is Christmas
I have been having some trouble staying engaged with my online world of late. Somehow, too many posts about ornaments and mantels and staying sane through the holidays. I have been longing for normal...
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Zooming in
Sick with a migraine last week, I realized just how comfortable, how pleasing, how nurturing a place our home is, just as it is. Yes, there are things we’d like to change. There are things we will...
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A gift-giving guide, of sorts
This year, I was determined not to succumb to the holiday madness. I was determined to celebrate simply, to leave wide open spaces that might fill with more meaningful things than spending and eating...
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Our merry little Christmas
We hope you had a wonderful holiday, whatever and however you celebrate. We’ve done a lot of talking and thinking about this holiday season in the past week. We’ve got some ideas about how we hope to...
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Say you want a revolution…
We are ready to move forward into the new year, but we need to start by first looking back at the past month. This post is a little long, and I’m not entirely sure that I’ve clearly connected all the...
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What we did on our winter vacation
We did a lot of things, actually. We played games, and cut snowflakes, and read books, and snuggled up, and visited family, and went skating, and slept in, and window-shopped, and took long walks in...
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Home sweet dream home
Do you have a dream home? Seems like lots of people on Pinterest do. I’m guessing that when it comes to dream homes, most of those pinners (and maybe you, too) are much like I have been for most of my...
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How we do home is how we do life
Cane and I have a problem we wrestle with. (Maybe you have it, too?) We want to live meaningful lives. We want to spend our limited time doing things that matter. Like so many others, I’ve taken deeply...
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A chair, two benches, and a DIY dysfunction
Just in case I ever give you the impression that I have this home design thing all figured out–you know, that I’ve got the whole intentional/frugal design thing down–I want you to know that I don’t....
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Because we all need a balanced diet
Most of the time, writing here is something that feeds me. Something about putting experience into words and images has always been the thing to take me deeper into it. Going deeper helps me live more...
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Keeping the main thing the main thing
On Monday, I had nothing to give you guys. I was feeling used up and worn out and I just couldn’t get myself to edit a post we’re almost ready to share. So in that day’s post I announced my intention...
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Taking command (without a command center)
Command centers. Just gonna come right out and say it: We kinda hate them. At least, we kinda hate the ones we see all over Pinterest. I’m sure it’s probably a large helping of sour grapes on my part,...
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The upside of ants
Once again, we are late to post. Once again, there will likely be only one post this week. It’s not that we don’t have things to say. To paraphrase an old favorite of mine: So many blog posts, so...
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On doing it right
Conventional wisdom says that for our blog to be successful, we need to post regularly, and when we do post, we need to deliver killer content. I also need to be engaging with all of you on social...
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Weekly meal planning: It’s what’s for dinner.
A few posts back I shared our non-commanding command center, created to support our newly-formed habit of of weekly meal planning. We are so pleased that Sara Tetrault of Go Gingham has asked us to...
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When thrifting isn’t thrifty
Last week a blogger I follow announced that she would be having a hoard sale, a sale to get rid of a bunch of thrifted stuff she bought for her house but has decided she won’t be able to use. She...
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Gardens and trucks and designing, oh my!
When I first met Cane, he had an little old pickup truck that he loved dearly. He often expresses longing for it, especially when we have a project that would be easier with one. Such was the case this...
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Eliminating paper towels and napkins
No offense intended to those who raised me, but I think I might have been in junior high before I realized that napkins could be made out something other than paper. I don’t know why. I’m sure it was...
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Making a summer project plan
We are in the midst of what I think of as The Dream Time. Both Cane and I work in schools, so we are at the beginning of summer break. For some reason, the weeks between the end of school (in late...
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Simple Living in Real Life
If you follow our Facebook page, you might already know that Brooke at Slow Your Home is one of my favorite bloggers. I’ve chosen several of her pieces as my FB lunchtime read of the day–because she’s...
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