Okay, homemade mayo. I put this off for way too long because it sounded like one of those things that requires too much from me. It does not. It takes about two minutes, and once you do it once you will feel a little silly about how long you avoided it. I know I did….
I come from a family rooted in tradition. Our traditions take many forms, from big family gatherings to recipes to silly little things we do year after year. Some are meaningful, some are ridiculous, and some have been around so long I’m not even sure any of us remember how they started. But I really…
I was nine years old when I begged my mom to throw this picture away. I thought I looked fat. That was the whole reason. It is the first photo I can remember looking at and thinking, wait, is that what I look like? She kept it anyway. I am so grateful she did. It…
9 years ago, I had the coolest experience The kind you can’t plan. In 2018 I was in the thick of motherhood with three little kids at home, endless messes, and no breaks. One day I left the house just to leave the house. It had probably been a week or two since I’d gone…
I finished the first draft of Lydia, which I knew was approximately step 10 in a 5,000-step journey. I’ve published two books before, a children’s book and a cookbook, along with multiple digital downloads, so I’m not completely new to publishing. But this feels entirely different. There is a rather enormous distance between “I wrote…
Right before we moved to Michigan in 2015, I hosted a murder mystery party with my family and we had SO much fun. The problem was finding a good game for 14 people. They were expensive, you could really only play them once, and the host had to know everything beforehand. So the person who…
Let me start by saying I am not a homesteader. I don’t live on 40 acres, milk a cow before breakfast, or possess several very important skills I assume I’ll need if society collapses. But over the past several years, Ammon and I have become increasingly interested in learning how to do things for ourselves….
People ask what we use out in the garden, so I’m going to share the tools and seeds that I used this year. Truth is, you do not need a shed full of gear to grow food. You need dirt, water, seeds, and a willingness to be wrong about things for a couple of seasons….
My family has eaten basically the same meal every Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember. And when I say the same meal, I mean THE SAME MEAL. If you have a copy of our family cookbook, you’ll already know the menu. But for those of you who don’t, let me introduce you….
I used to think knowing my kids was automatic. I made them! Of course I know them. But our kids change constantly, and the parts that change fastest are the parts we can’t see, their fears, their friendships, what they’re proud of, what they’re quietly worried about at eleven o’clock at night. If we’re only…
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