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Our Cozy Christmas Tour 2023

Welcome to our Cozy Christmas Tour 2023! Come on in, make yourself at home. I’m thrilled you could make it.  I’m going to fix myself a chai latte before I show you around.  Want me to make you one too? I don’t post videos on Instagram, showing how I decorate

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At Home

Bedtime Story Advent Calendar

Our four-year-old, Ada, wakes up and asks the same thing every morning: “Momma, is it Christmas?” “Nope, Sis,” I say. “It isn’t Christmas.” “Is it my birthday?” she says. “Nope, it isn’t your birthday either.” “What is today then?” “It’s Tuesday,” I say as I work my fingers through her

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Our Christmas Home Tour

Welcome Sweet Friends! We’re inviting you to our Christmas home tour! If you’re an old (and dear) friend, you know to kick your shoes off at the door, not because we’re at all fussy but because this is a bare-footin’ kind of house. If you’re new, we’re glad to have

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Soulful Stuff

Perfect Christmas

My childhood in many ways was Norman Rockwell-ish. Does anyone even know what that means anymore? If you don’t, Google it. My mom also had an ideal childhood and wanted to recreate that for my brother and me — and even my dad. He grew up on a farm and

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Food and Wellness

Gluten-Free Cranberry Bliss Cookies and a Link Party

Last week when I shared our Christmas tour, I included some shots my friend, Stacey Bosley, took of us baking cookies. We were making the closest thing I’ve been able to get to Starbucks’ Cranberry Bliss Bars since I had to go gluten free in 2012. I sure do miss

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