When I was pregnant with our first child, my husband was routinely working several hours away and often had to stay overnight for meetings. It was just the two of us, so the distance was easy to manage until I found myself admitted to the hospital in preterm labor while he was on the road. Living in south Mississippi, I have several friends whose husbands work offshore, and I'm always amazed by ...
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5 Easy Ways to Help Make Your New House a Home
There isn't much more exciting than moving into a new home...or anything quite as stressful. While we were staying in Houston for my husband's radiation last year, one of my sisters was settling into a new home with her family. Day by day, there were hiccups to deal with and design decisions to make. I enjoyed watching (and hopefully helping a little) as she turned a beautiful new house into a ...
Revived & Renovated – A Review
Sitting and waiting at doctors' offices or riding long hours to visit new doctors hundreds of miles away has given me a little time for reading, and one of the books in my bag this week is Revived & Renovated: Real Life Conversations on the Intersection of Home, Faith and Everything in Between by Victoria Duerstock and Paige Rien. Being able to review books is one of my ...
California Design Den – Bed Sheet Review
"Lala salama." It's one of the Kiswhahili phrases I love and not just because it rolls off the tongue so easily. Sleep peacefully. Who doesn't want to do that? I know I do, and nothing short of a sick kid wakes me up more quickly than having the fitted sheet on my bed come off during the night. It drives me crazy, and because our bed sheets were getting on in ...