The Domesticated Princess

I don't know what year it began, but we have pictures going back to the 1970s. My mom would create a template using a shoebox. She'd then bake a couple boxes of gingerbread mix and whip up batches of chocolate icing and Royal icing. A few days before...

 
This tree is one of our newest. While we've owned four homes, this one is the only one large enough to house its own full-sized tree. Plus it has a large window, so people can see it from the outside, which is important to me because I love it when I...

By now you've probably figured out that I gave up on the idea of blogging once a week through the summer. As the first week of summer flew by and I realized I still hadn't sat down to write out my post, I realized that I wanted to devote as much time...

I always feel an overwhelming sense of nostalgia on the last day of school, so I probably shouldn't even attempt to write a blog post today, but I want to. As a mother, I'm torn between wanting my children to stay young and innocent forever and watching...