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 […]

We had another doctor’s appointment last Tuesday. I would share the latest photo, but it’s not really that great and you can’t see much of anything. It’s the same angle as the last one but a lot fuzzier. Apparently Mackenzie didn’t want to hold still long enough for the paparazzi to do their job this […]

I finally got back into making meal plans again. I went all out this time and did 3 weeks at once. I haven’t stuck to it too well so far but at least our freezer is FULL of food and when I do feel like being a good homemaker, I have a variety of things […]