It’s funny how currently, I live one block from the hospital I was born at. Now granted, it is no longer a hospital, but a large brick building that has become the administrative home for many ministries. And we often joke that as a family of 3, we were all born in different states. Dan…
Have you ever thought about what makes you content? Or maybe the more correct question would be is – what do you need to be content? Maybe you find yourself in a chapter of discontentment. You wish your car ran better. You wish your house was more updated or looked like the neighbor’s down the…
When I was going through chemo, there were many slow days. And hard days. I was zapped of energy, so I spent a lot of time reading, thinking, and taking life a bit slower. A life that at times, wasn’t all too bad. Except the chemo part. Don’t want to do that again, that’s for…
Are you a spring cleaner? Do you get the itch when nice weather rolls around to not only do a deeper clean of the house, but to go through what you have and purge of what you do not need? I’ll admit I get the spring cleaning itch more than once a year, but it’s…
With all of these snowstorms that we’ve experienced in West Michigan, it has called for some creative activities in the house. I grew up with my mom having dried potpourri on the stove and that inspired me to try something myself. Stovetop potpourri. Though not dried and uses fresh ingredients, I have to say it…
Outside order contributes to inner calm Gretchen Rubin This summer I’ve been slowly going through areas of our home that need some attention. We live in a 100-year-old house and I’m thinking they didn’t need closets because our house has one coat closet and one bedroom closet (that would be our daughter’s). Our closet has…
