Heart and Home
Today, my focus was to get a bunch of cleaning caught up on. Liam installed our brand new dishwasher yesterday (YAY!) and the big kids were staying over with my parents. As I tidied and scrubbed, I felt myself being drawn back into thinking about how my house symbolizes me. My kitchen is like my [...]
Kitchen island
Here is the long-awaited post about the new island! Isle Johnstone? Johnstonia? Whatever you want to call it, this is a piece of furniture that makes my inner domestic goddess sing. As you can see in the following picture, it is beeeeautiful. And the Learning Tower for the kids fits in right next to it [...]
Playful Playroom
Shortly after moving into our house, we converted what is meant to be the master bedroom off the kitchen into a playroom for the kids. It suited us better to have everyone sleeping upstairs and a play area in the main living area for the kids. As anyone who has been to our house knows, [...]
Voluntary Simplicity
Yesterday, I attended a workshop on voluntary simplicity which was being offered at our church by a few of the parishioners. There was a retreat a few months back, but being the mom of two little kids (one of whom still nurses several times each night) doesn’t lend itself well to that type of activity. [...]
