This Thing Called Home (the book) Posts

I had a true stop in my tracks moment when I heard this for the first time. “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full, miss the point. The glass is refillable.” (source unknown) How many times have I thought about the world being divided in two: pessimists and optimists? How […]

Here’s the story. On Saturday I went to Magnolia and I was just a regular shopper. The weather was perfect, the whole place absolutely as charming as you might expect. Then, I saw it. The perfect special something for me to buy. I almost choked up it was so sweet. It is a small roll of […]

What is this book all about anyway? I’m so glad you asked! Let me break it down for you. It’s such a quick read, you’ll forget it’s a book. This book is broken into three parts and I purposefully left it brief. This isn’t a textbook, a handbook, or even an all encompassing manual. It’s […]

 “Make this, do that, rush here, help this one, what’s next?” I tell myself, inevitably interrupted by a “Mommy! Mommy!” and a tug of a shirt. It’s a busy life, this mom life. The thoughts you think are the stories you tell yourself. Perspective, vantage point, angle, self-talk…those are the stories and it all forms […]

For somewhere around 4 months, all of my friends heard me throwing around the idea of writing a book. Someday, I want to write a book, I’d think. The urgency was eating at me more and more though and all of my family and friends knew it. A friend told me about a course he had heard […]

Here’s the thing. I needed it. I needed this book. I needed a certain kind of help so that I could stop failing at the home stuff. I looked everywhere and I couldn’t find it. I started teaching myself this stuff and when I opened up to talk to other ladies about it…it wasn’t anything […]