Hello, friends! We are renting a duplex while we will be building. It is half the size of our previous house, but it’s going to be home for the next 7-8 months, so we’re working with what we’ve got. Here is our autumn front porch:

We adore books in this house and have quite the collection after collecting for more than 15 years. We’ve shared our favorite Christmas books here, but I asked my kids to pick out their top 10 favorite picture books for a little presentation I was giving at my church women’s group. It was so fun and quite revealing to see the ones that they picked together. I don’t know if I would have picked them correctly on my own. I am going to share the links on Amazon, but of course you can find them at thrift stores, ebay, library sales, your mother’s basement, you know.

Hello! Are you sick of hearing from me every day yet? We are halfway through our every day September! Okay, I admit I’m scrambling some days when I don’t plan ahead, but it’s been good! I like the creative juices flowing again..

Speaking of which, I wanted a fall wreath for our door on our rental, but didn’t want to spend a lot. Here is what I came up with:

This is how I make my grocery list these days. I empty out my brain onto our white board in the hall:

Then, I snap a picture of it with my phone and off I go.