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I found my brand-new husband, sitting on the floor of the only bedroom in our brand-new house. His back propped…
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I found my brand-new husband, sitting on the floor of the only bedroom in our brand-new house. His back propped…
Continue ReadingTo the average person, it was a typical Wisconsin Friday in October—wet, dreary, and a bit nippy. To my wife…
Continue ReadingI meticulously vacuumed and mopped, water streaks practically mocking me with the contrast of dirty to clean. Tending to the…
Continue ReadingMy house will never be worthy of photographs. It will always have dust in the corners, a random piece of…
Continue ReadingThe online world is filled with pictures of finished homes with color coordination, painted walls, and seasonal decorations. I never…
Continue ReadingBefore Pinterest, before social media, before anybody cared, my room during high school in the early 2000s was decorated with…
Continue ReadingIt’s been seven hours since I last spoke. There’s no one in the house to talk to. My husband is…
Continue ReadingThe kitchen in my home is a sacred place. This humble place of mine has held the moments of our…
Continue ReadingI need to make dinner. But before I can do that, I need to clean off the counter, which means…
Continue ReadingDear, sweet, adorable, impossibly neat, put-together Marie Kondo, Pull up a stool to my kitchen counter, won't you, love? I've…
Continue ReadingWe mothers spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Along with everything else on our plates we are often…
Continue ReadingTwo tiny keys sat on the kitchen counter of an otherwise empty house. To anyone else in the world, they…
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