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Today I renewed our annual passes to the Biltmore House in Asheville, North Carolina. I just love visiting this place. I’m not sure what it is that I love most—the good food, the shopping, all the plant and decor inspiration, or the fact that it offers Dean and me regular opportunities to get away, just […]

I’ve been missing from Instagram and the blog as of late. My mornings are filled with feeding hungry bellies, guiding kids to the day’s schoolwork, and getting myself to work all so we can be finished and off to the new house sometime in the early afternoon. There we spend the rest of the day […]

As some of you know (if you read my blog or my Instagram blurbs regularly), we are wrapping up our homeschool year this month. However, since this is such a time of transition for us, with working on our new house and living out of our suitcases, our daily routine is a bit skewed. Because […]

So it’s official! We’ve sold our home, and we are now homeless in a sense. We close on our new house on October 2nd, so until then, we are essentially homeless. It feels a bit strange not to own a home! Thankfully, though, once we do own our home, we don’t have to live there […]

No “Instaworthy” home photos here today. Nope. Today you get the real deal—the bare walls, dirty floors, and cluttered room look because this is what real life looks like for us right now. We have packed half of the house so far. If you look at some rooms, it looks like we’re making a dent […]

At this point in the year, we’re usually knee-deep into the first term of our homeschool schedule, but this year, I decided to take a different approach and switch up our schedule to follow seasonal rhythms and changes. One way we’re doing this during the winter months is by implementing holiday studies. For the past […]