Author: Erin

  • Memorial Day

    Doesn’t this image just hit you right in the gut?   I saw it floating around facebook.  Today- remembering and thankful.

  • Confessions of an Amateur Renovator

    For as long as I can remember, I have wanted a tired old house of my very own to renovate and bring back to life.   See this example of a before and after renovation from Country Living.com?  I drive by old houses like this and just ache to own and fix them.   Since you…

  • 4 Simple Steps for Easy Meal Planning

    recipe & image via I was really sick the first five months of this pregnancy.  I had very little appetite and fought constant wife and mama guilt that I was doing the bare minimum to prepare healthy meals for my family.  There were enough take-out boxes coming into this house to give me a serious…

  • Boy Mom Up!

     via Soon I will be the mother of two little boys. And I am 110% GIRL. I love make-up, jewelry, high heels, decorating, and the ballet.  I really don’t care for football and I scream my head off at the site of most bugs.  Yet God, who knows me better than anyone, has called me…

  • From Farm to Bowl: Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream

    I took Wynn to a local farm here in North Carolina to pick strawberries, fresh from the field.  I was craving fresh strawberry ice cream and homemade jam and I wanted to show Wynn how God grows treasures like straweberries!  I wasn’t sure what to expect from a little boy, just turned two years old,…

  • An Ice Cream Resolution

    Wynn’s resolution for the summer is to eat ice cream every day. Since it is already bathing suit weather in North Carolina, he is getting started a few weeks early.  It’s all in a day’s work when you are 2!

  • Beach Boy

    We are enjoying our last few weeks in North Carolina before we head back to our Michigan beach cottage for the summer. This past weekend we drove to the South Carolina coast and spent a magical four days on the water.  The temperature was just perfect and we even saw dolphins playing in the surf. …

  • It’s a . . .

    BOY!!! And everything on the ultrasound looked healthy, healthy, healthy.  I can’t tell you the relief and joy to know that he is growing and thriving and measuring right on track for a mid-September arrival.  Thank you so much for praying with us! When I was pregnant with Wynn, I was sure that he was…

  • 20 Weeks & Counting

    It has been a long 20 weeks but this uphill journey is starting to seem more than worth it as sweet baby is growing fast and I am starting to feel lots of reassuring baby flutters.  I have been meditating on this verse through the difficult weeks of pregnancy sickness:  “Blessed is the man who…

  • Easter Brunch Outdoors

    Easter brunch is my favorite entertaining “event” of the year.  It is a chance to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, the colors of spring and REBIRTH.  I could look at pretty table settings, recipes and styling ideas all day long.    Since we are in North Carolina this spring and enjoying warm spring weather I…