By Pamela Chandler The Thinkers and Doers of All the Things Are Tired
I was telling a friend how exhausting some of the invisible labor is around here, and she laughed and said,…
Continue Reading
A Gift for Mom! 🤍
Tag
house
“Mommy, I Wish There Was a Dad at Your House.”
“Mommy, I wish there was a dad at your house.” That sentence stung. I sat in silence for a moment…
Continue Reading
By Lindsay Sledge The House on Wakefield Drive
Jack and Nancye built a house on Wakefield Drive in 1988, the year their first grandchild was born. The year I…
Continue Reading
By Aftan Hoffer This Life We Have is Perfect For Us
I try my best not to be offended by kids. Ask any teacher, and they’ll tell you countless stories of…
Continue Reading
By Heather Spiva The Apricot Tree and the Peach Seed
When we moved to the house we’re in now, one of the biggest features that originally sold me was the…
Continue Reading
By Lizzy Christian Goodbye to the Little Yellow House
We recently sold the house we lived in for five years. We always knew it was an “in-between” house for…
Continue Reading
By Kim Hanson We Built a Rock-Solid Foundation in Our Little Home
I found my brand-new husband, sitting on the floor of the only bedroom in our brand-new house. His back propped…
Continue Reading
Mom May Never See Our Home, but Her Love Lives Here
To the average person, it was a typical Wisconsin Friday in October—wet, dreary, and a bit nippy. To my wife…
Continue Reading
Invite People Over, It’s Always Worth It
I meticulously vacuumed and mopped, water streaks practically mocking me with the contrast of dirty to clean. Tending to the…
Continue Reading
By Jodi McDonnell Our Home is Full of Laundry, Dishes, Dust—and Love
My house will never be worthy of photographs. It will always have dust in the corners, a random piece of…
Continue Reading
By Melinda Dueck Our Home Isn’t Picture Perfect, but It’s Perfectly Us
The online world is filled with pictures of finished homes with color coordination, painted walls, and seasonal decorations. I never…
Continue Reading
The Room that Built Me
Before Pinterest, before social media, before anybody cared, my room during high school in the early 2000s was decorated with…
Continue Reading