I believe in putting good things into the world, don’t you? Of course you do. You’re awesome. When I stumbled on a BOGO sale of Crayola Watercolors a few weeks ago, I scooped up 10 for my daughter’s preschool class. Sure, it was a little more expensive than a box
This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of these links, I may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Our Storied Home. The Christmas traditions I remember most weren’t necessarily extravagant, although my mother certainly never did Christmas
Watching your children grow up is one of motherhood’s strangest contradictions: you delight in who they are becoming while grieving each version of them that quietly disappears. One bedtime reading of The Giving Tree brought that truth home to this mother—and made her reconsider where she wanted her time, attention
If you have never had a hot brown before, you are missing out. Big time. According to gotolouisville.com, the hot brown originated from the historical Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky in 1926. The chef, Fred K. Schmidt, created an alternative to the ham and egg suppers that were served to dance
For those of you that don’t know, in my other life I am a children’s yoga teacher. A few years ago I created my own curriculum (called Yogalore) that I use for my classes. Soon after I decided to make the curriculum available to others — parents, grandparents, teachers, and
My mom passed away five years ago; my dad about four years ago. It’s been a rough couple of years for my family. My mom passed away from complications from COPD and emphysema. Her goal was to live long enough to be able to see Jake (my son) graduate high