Almost exactly 2.5 years ago, we bought our current house. It felt – in a hundred ways – like this house just fell into our laps, and I’ve been delighted by this house virtually every single day since we moved in. I’ve loved the big yard, the open floor plan (very unusual in a 1950s house), the fun original details,…
Read More
I was going to say that Ella has been reading up a storm lately and then I realized that it’s not just lately. I think she’s been reading up a storm since the moment she figured out how to read back in 2014. I love seeing what books she picks each time for Ella Enjoyed and I can always put…
Read More
For the last . . . nine years, our girls’ rooms have generally been a mess. Every week or two, we’d clean them up together and then they’d almost immediately sink back into chaos. I mostly just ignored it and then at the beginning of the year, Bart said to me “Does it make you crazy how filthy their rooms…
Read More
I’ve read both of Kristin Hannah’s biggest novels (The Nightingale and The Great Alone) and loved them both, so when I heard she had a new book coming out, there was no question that I was going to read The Four Winds too. And I LOVED it. I’d been dragging through an audiobook before this one and when I finally…
Read More
My girls love playing games during breakfast before they go to school and it’s a fun start to their day. I also love quick and easy card games that I can play with my littler girls while the big girls are at school – a ten minute game goes a long way between loads of laundry or errands! If you’re…
Read More
