Classic Christmas Tablescape

Let me start off by being real honest here, tablescapes are normally only done for an Instagram picture and then it all comes down. There’s one dining table at our house and it’s used three times a day for meals and then for homeschooling and for…

Weekly Wrap Up: Front Porch Pickin’

Whew! What a week! We held our first ever Front Porch Pickin’ where we opened up our home for a Christmas holiday tour and our front porch was a temporary antique booth/home decor store. We had hot cocoa and apple cider and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies and…

Holiday Cookie Exchange Recipe Swap

I’ve teamed up with five fabulous bloggers to share our favorite cookie recipes! I’m so excited because I love a good holiday cookie! My absolute favorite cookie is a fresh-out-of-the-oven classic chocolate chip cookie. A little backstory on me, I didn&#8217…

Weekly Wrap Up: Thanksgiving Week and Random Musings

Hey friends! You’ll be seeing pictures of the kids throughout the post. I took some Christmas photos of them for our Christmas cards and I’d love to share them with you. Lately, life has been busy in a good way. We’ve been decorating for…

Holiday Traditions

A couple of years ago, Benjamin and I decided we didn’t want our holidays to be remembered because of the gifts. We wanted to create a true Christmas season experience. We want our children to look back and think about the fun things we did. We began to…

Address The Mess

There’s a certain lesson I seem to have to relearn and relearn. Just do the chores. Address the Mess. It’s a simple lesson, right? But in the monotony of staying at home, it’s easy to start putting off the chores for something a bit…

Weekly Wrap Up: Sickness, Scaffolding, and Sisters

Pregnancy Update: 19 Weeks Today with Little Guy…No name yet. But he’s the size of a mango. Potential names for this week: Jacob, Davis, Lincoln, William, Hanks. FYI: we prefer either Biblical names or family names. Since genealogy research has been a hobby of mine for…

Weekly Wrap Up: Jackson’s 9th Birthday

It was a busy weekend so my weekly wrap up is a couple of days late, but I love capturing our week in these posts so I thought, “better late than never!” Our sweet Jackson, our second child, turned nine on Saturday. We celebrated with a family dinner…

Weekly Wrap Up on the Farm: It’s a…

I can’t tell you how much I look forward to sitting down and writing these weekly wrap ups. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking the time to stop by and visit and for loving this family of mine. We love you back! This week…

Why I’m Glad I Went With the Gallery Wall

Two things you should know about me: I overanalyze everything and I don’t like putting nail holes in my walls unless I’m CERTAIN. I know that last one doesn’t seem like a big deal, but it does when you really want a gallery wall…