If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram or have been reading this blog for a while you may have noticed that over the past nine months I have been working on a house other than mine. The house is called The Nest. It is an emergency refuge home for women and children who find themselves homeless for whatever reason. The Nest has been a labor of love, for me, for my family, and for the ... View Post
For the Girls – Why a hashtag matters
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The Morning After – Arkansas Tornado
Last night horrible tornadoes ripped through Arkansas devastating communities very close to where we live. The same communities that we have been house hunting in. Watching image after image, constantly refreshing my Twitter feed (Central Arkansas has a tight Twitter community,) listening to the sheriffs voice crack on the news as he told of the devastation, I remembered a day very ... View Post
Fluffing The Nest – Help Create an Emergency Refuge for Women and Children
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” ― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC Once upon a time I did interior design work for a living and occasionally, from time to time, I still dapple in the home decorating arts. I was never the fanciest, or the best, or the trendiest designer. But I think perhaps I was ... View Post
Gogo’s House, Camp Lovely and the flu
First of all, my whole little family has had the flu this week. The nasty summertime flu. It has not been lovely at all. Today is the first day I have had enough energy to even open the laptop. I think we are on the mend, Miles actually is the best out of all of us since he had it mostly last week and went to school today. Hopefully this will all be over and done with by the weekend, but boy ... View Post
sunday’s challenge- we have to get our hands dirty
"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has roots in earth and manure." - D. H. Lawrence Being Christ hand's and feet here earth means that we must be of earth and not just of ideals. We must choose, over and over, to put our roots down in the dirtiest and stinkiest places of all. The places no one else wants to go because they are filled with waste and mess. Places that smell funny ... View Post
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