What you may or may not know about our family is that we used to homeschool, and by homeschool, I mean myself and my daughter working through subjects and predicates at the sticky kitchen table while one little boy would climb up on the counter, in nothing but a pair of Minions underwear, to […]

  I have a personal rule when it comes to my husband: everything I buy is “on sale” and everything I cook is “low-fat”. Or at least, that is the perception. A few months ago, he came home to two very large, lush ferns hanging on our front porch. I had been asked to participate […]

  A few months back when the first snowstorm of 2017 hit East Tennessee, we were all home together in tiny house land, cranky started to settle in and boredom began to kick in. I remembered our rather large collection of play dough in the kitchen, so we all settled in to create our masterpieces. Each […]

  We went through a season of life where every single winter, our home would be plagued with the stomach virus. It would hit one of us and we all just knew what was up; a miserable few days and nights of quarantine for our household. Especially when they were small, it made me nervous […]