Patriotic Pinspiration

Okay, so if you are like me and tend toward last-minute preparation for holidays, I’ve got two easy ideas for your Fourth of July festivities.   Of course, I found both on Pinterest (have we connected there yet?) … and I have a whole board dedicated to Summer Stuff with […]

Celebrating One Beautiful Thing

Memorial Day … the official start of summer. This year was a little bittersweet for our family  As thankful as we are to be living back home in North Alabama, we sure do miss all our friends from our almost-eleven years on the Georgia Coast.  {Of course, they were battling […]

4 Qualities of a Well-Made Home

This business of homemaking can be overwhelming.  In fact, if we really contemplate what it is to make a home, it’s far more challenging than managing one. Managing a home involves schedules, lists, and plans … making a home requires grace, understanding, and  listening. Managing your home is important and […]

10 Ways to Make a Home

Sometimes I think we use homemaking and home managing as synonyms … and we shouldn’t.  Managing is not the same thing as making. Manage: to handle, direct, govern, or control in action or use Make: to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc. from dictionary.com We have […]

10 Tips for a Meaningful Christmas

Christmas is less than a week away.  Based on the Facebook status updates racing through my feed, the theme of these last few days is RUSH. Rush to buy. Rush to wrap. Rush to bake. Rush to give. Rush to clean. Rush to pack. Rush to go. Rush. It’s hard […]