By now, most of us have made, and quietly broken, our New Year’s resolutions. The gym membership we swore we’d use. The sugar we promised to quit. The planner we bought with the best of intentions… now collecting dust. But what if this year, instead of resolving to fix ourselves, we focused on strengthening our…
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Right now, our house feels a bit like a circus act where someone is trying to keep 14 plates spinning at once. My husband is in a job transition. It is not that he lacks connections or promising leads; it is that we do not have a clear known. Is the next step a new…
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The first time you pack a home to start a new one, you realize you’re not just moving furniture, you’re moving a culture. I found that out the year my husband and I wrapped and packed our new dishes next to his large trunk of travel souvenirs and my grandmother’s floral music box. On paper,…
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New Year, New We: A Different Kind of Resolution
By now, most of us have made, and quietly broken, our New Year’s resolutions. The gym membership we swore we’d use. The sugar we promised to quit. The planner we bought with the best of intentions… now collecting dust. But what if this year, instead of resolving to fix ourselves, we focused on strengthening our…
Loving Your Spouse Through the Unknown
Right now, our house feels a bit like a circus act where someone is trying to keep 14 plates spinning at once. My husband is in a job transition. It is not that he lacks connections or promising leads; it is that we do not have a clear known. Is the next step a new…
Honoring Where You’re From While Building What Comes Next
The first time you pack a home to start a new one, you realize you’re not just moving furniture, you’re moving a culture. I found that out the year my husband and I wrapped and packed our new dishes next to his large trunk of travel souvenirs and my grandmother’s floral music box. On paper,…