by Marissa | Jan 2, 2016 | 2016, Faith, Home, Image-Update, Life, MakingHome, Parenting, Uncategorised
I admit, by the time mid December finished the steamroll that began flattening me in November, I was ready to find a cave and hibernate until Spring. But I didn’t. I love traditions and I love all the festivity around Christmas but this year many things were...
by Marissa | May 13, 2014 | 2014, Home, Image-Update, MakingHome, Renovations, Sewing, Uncategorised
When we first moved here, I had my sewing room in a larger room upstairs. Well, actually it was simply a room that held messy piles of all my stuff. Dan was using this small room as his office for teaching violin until this fall when he began teaching at his studio in...
by Marissa | May 12, 2014 | 2014, Farm, Home, Image-Update, MakingHome, Uncategorised
Yesterday was Mother’s Day and after my breakfast in bed and sweet cards from my girls, we spent the day around home. I cleaned and did some fresh decorating along with reading stories, chatting, napping, cuddling, and eating meals made by Dan. At ten pm...
by Marissa | Mar 5, 2014 | 2014, Gardening, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, MakingHome, PursuingBeauty, Tutorials, Uncategorised
I’m trying to keep a good attitude, really I am, but winter this year feels kind of endless. This from someone who usually loves winter. I don’t know, everything just feels kind of old, cold, and tiring. But there, I’m trying to keep my chin up. Look...
by Marissa | Dec 27, 2013 | 2013, GrowingFamily, Home, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, MakingHome, PursuingBeauty, Uncategorised
It’s been a beautiful, crazy, unusual, and perfect-for-us Christmas. Full of fun, quiet, noise, food, friends, just us, and family via facetime. The girls have been soaking up every minute of it, especially the fact that their beloved daddy is taking the week of...
by Marissa | Dec 15, 2013 | 2013, Home, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, MakingHome, Uncategorised
Have I told you about the island in my kitchen before? Well, its huge and beautiful; we found and bought an section of an old bowling ally for a fraction of the cost that a hardwood counter top would have been. Solid maple and six feet long, I dreamed it up and Dan...
