Lessons from bumps in the road trip
Boom! A loud breaking sound. Screeching and rubbing.What I thought was maybe a blown-out tire on our trailer, was in fact, our bike rack hitting the ground and being dragged behind us. My husband’s...
View ArticleI Love This Place: Encinitas, California
Time for another addition to our I Love This Place series! Contributing writer Nicole Bennett shares why she loves where she lives along the beautiful Pacific coast (and I’ve personally been to her...
View ArticleThe Big Blessings of Living Small
More than one person has said this to us since we bought our small-ish condo four years ago: “You could get a bigger house if you moved inland.”Five people and one fluffy labradoodle living in just...
View ArticleGiving the gift of ice cream
When it comes to loving people, I love to give gifts of all kinds (it’s my number one love language actually). There’s something special about picking out something just right or coming up with an idea...
View ArticleTiny House Principles for Home and Life
Lately, my kids have gotten super into all of the “tiny house” shows somehow. They’re fascinated with watching the design process and creation of these homes the size of tree houses or RVs.After...
View ArticleLet Your Passions Help You With Your Chores, or An Ode to Podcasts
It’s 3:30 p.m — almost the end of a long, exhausting (if fun) day. The kids are winding down for a rare, quiet moment with a book, or a toy, or a show on TV, and I know it’s time to start thinking...
View ArticleWhy YA Literature Appeals to More Than Just Young Adults
As a thirty-six year-old mother of three, I am not the target audience of the literature genre dubbed young adult. Affectionately abbreviated YA Lit, this genre refers to books written for 12 to...
View ArticleHow To Be A Janeite
Balboa Park’s House of England, December 16. Many of the other Janeites dressed in legit regency attire.I did my best with an empire-waist maxi dress. I felt awkward at first, but then began to settle...
View ArticleWhat’s Saving My (Digital) Life Right Now
Things shift a lot in the summer season for our family. We spend even more time outside and we have way less organized responsibilities (read: school and sports).So for me, summer has become a great...
View ArticleA Family Sailing Adventure
Recently my husband and I caught up with dear college friends, who are currently living a lifestyle very different from ours. After years of enjoying their suburban California life—with three kids and...
View Article12 YA Book Series (To Introduce You To New Genres)
I remember the shift. I’d dabbled in dystopia and a bit of fantasy (well, mostly just Harry Potter), but never had I ventured into literary outer space. But all it took was one series to suck me in and...
View Article14 YA (Backlist) Books For Your Summer Reading
Here are some swoonworthy, summery (mostly contemporary) young adult reads for you or your older teen to put on your holds list as the weather warms up and the beaches start calling our names.1. Love...
View ArticleOn Taking My Reading Hobby To The Next Level
While I would have always classified myself as someone who likes to read, it’s only been in the last couple of years that I’ve really devoted myself to reading as a true pastime and taken on the...
View ArticleThe Best of Both Worlds: Bullet Journaling with a Planner
Continuing our series during this final year of AoS of the top 12 published posts of all time (measured in simple traffic numbers), here’s number 11. Like last month’s, this one’s a surprise to me as...
View ArticleFinding the Essentials of Life
I’ve been reading this blog in one form or another for around twelve years and writing for Tsh for many of those years. Over that time, I’ve learned and been inspired in incalculable ways from Tsh and...
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