Archives for August 2015

We have lived in our house since April, and since then I have been looking for a portable island or cart to go in my kitchen beside the fridge. I just couldn’t find one I liked, especially one that wasn’t a meeelion dollars, so I came up with the brilliant plan for this DIY kitchen […]

Happy Friday! I assume that like me, a lot of you sent your kids back to school this week. My daughter is a freshman in high school, and went back to public school after almost two years of homeschooling. Not only that, she is in a totally different school system with all new kids. I […]

Tofu gets a pretty bad rap, and admittedly, it can be pretty slimy depending on how it is prepared. But I am prepared to change your mind with some of my favorite baked tofu recipes. Tofu is a tricky beast. It is packaged in water to preserve it, but you want to get as much […]

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #100MillionReasons #CollectiveBias Compassion is a core value of mine, and I try hard to teach my kids to value it as well. What does compassion really mean? Feeling what others feel, and wanting to help them overcome their […]

I really like paper. And pens. And notebooks. Oh, who am I kidding? I’m addicted to office supplies. I have been eyeballing the Arc Customizable notebook system for a while because, well, it is customizable. The punch creates these  half-moon shapes in the paper, which then fit around discs, creating a notebook. It’s kind of crazy, but […]

I fell in love with Jen Hatmaker’s message when I watched her speak at the If:Gathering this past year. Since then I have read her books, watched her TV show, and stalked followed her ministry on Facebook. So when she announced her newest book “For The Love” and put out a call for launch team members, […]

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In April we moved from a 1,000 square foot apartment to a house that is more than double that size. Not only do we have drastically more square footage, we have two garages, and a yard. Not only did we have to buy a lot of tools to get the house and yard back into […]

I have blogged off and on for a lot of years, but I have been doing it seriously for a little over a year now. By far my BIGGEST struggle is time management. When I cut my outside-the-home work schedule down to part-time, I was able to tread water and get posts slapped up at […]