My Back Porch Our back porch has been a work-in-progress for years (and really still is. But in the past couple of months we have done three things that make a huge difference: 1) stained it 2) strung up some lights and 3) finished staining and hanging the back porch swing. And now it is…
Author: Erin
Last week, I think it might have even been on Tuesday, I read The Giving Tree to Evelyn. I haven’t read that book in years. In case you’re unfamiliar (or forget) the story, a boy loves a tree and as he grows older the trees offers him herself (apples to sell for money, wood to…
So right now I am reading Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist. It is full of so many lovely thoughts about food and gathering with people we love. It is about the holy act of hospitality. It is about how life does not always hand us what we expect. It is about letting go of…
{Me Before You by Jojo Moyes} I’ve been off my fiction reading game for a bit (I feel like I went through a non-fiction phase recently), and this is the first book I’ve read in a while that I felt fully captivated by the story. Louisa is an average girl in a small English town…
A couple of weeks ago some friends of ours had their baby 14 weeks early. Thankfully she is doing well, but it has thrown their lives into a new kind of chaos. It made me start thinking and brainstorming things we, along with some of our other friends, could do for them, and I thought…