Like many women in this world today, I wear many hats in this household. I run a business from home and I am also responsible for maintaining our house on a day-to-day basis. I struggle to find a balance between the two and perhaps that is because there always seems to be a million and […]

I’ve added a couple new pages to the blog…those little tab things at the top of the site when you’re viewing this blog via the web and not in a reader or your email. I also added some favorite links to other blogs and sites I frequent so if you’re looking for some new blogs […]

Last Thursday, I was returning from my morning walk with Ayla and our neighbor from across the street was ringing our doorbell to let me know my car door had been left open. Strangely enough, I don’t remember leaving it open (especially as far as it was when he showed it to me) and can’t […]

It hit me recently that I really like survivalist movies. I never really noticed the theme before but we were trying to find a movie to watch and considering our collection…and realized that a big section of our favorite movies are about people surviving in the worst of situations: Resident Evil Trilogy 28 Days/Weeks/Months Later […]

This post is part of the Before & After series I’ve started about the renovation of our house. If you’d like to read more about our projects on the house, please visit our Farmhouse page. When we bought the house in August 2006, the kitchen in the main house was this room. The counter wasn’t […]