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2025 Favorites Happy New Year! I have not done a favorites list for the last several years, and I miss having the record for myself, especially as I’ve quit using the platforms that keep up with these records for me. So in addition to some favorites from 2025, I will throw in a highlight or …
2021 Favorites Happy New Year from our new home! We ended 2021 by moving back to the UK. It’s been a bit of a flurry, but now we are in our new home in Bristol, quarantining and waiting for our shipment of stuff to arrive. Our house is currently empty except for a couple of …
2020 Favorites Happy New Year from Castle Bluff! We are staying at a cabin in the woods where the mood outside is matching all my feels about the year we just finished. I am happy to join in the collective sigh of relief that 2020 is officially over. For the final month of 2020, I …
Hello 2020. I’m grateful you’re here. I am already pumped for all that’s coming in 2020. It’s going to be an AMAZING year, I can feel it. But before we get too far into 2020, I want to I want to take a minute to record some favorites from 2019. So here are some of …
Favorites of 2018 Hello 2019. I’m grateful you’re here. There are so many things I am already hoping and praying for in the year ahead. But before I get ahead of myself, I want to take a minute to be grateful for what 2018 brought into my life. So here are some of the books, …
I’m quickly sharing a few of my favorites of 2017 before I’m so far into 2018 that I forget about them. These are some of the books, movies, songs and places that widened my heart in 2017. My Five Favorite Books I read in 2017 The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom White Awake by Daniel …
Some of my favorite stills to snap photos of in our expat life involve tea. Cups of tea. Teapots. Sometimes flowers. And lots of times, books. We have adopted tea time in Scotland, and it does make the cold climate more bearable to keep a hot drink in your hand as often as possible. Here’s …
Friends! How these first days of January have flown by! Confession: I have not left the house this week except to go to church and to walk to and from school. And I am still not caught up! But it’s time to throw off the PJ pants and head out into the world because it …
Photo Challenge Tina from Girl Meets Globe tagged me in the Capture the Colour Photo Blogging Challenge! For the challenge, you have to choose one photo for each color/colour. (I’m feeling schizophrenic about spellings lately.) Here are the ones I chose: White Yellow Blue Green Red Even though I take a LOT of photos, I …
In the same way that a pot of soup full of Herbes de Provence simmering on the stove makes me dream of far away countrysides, this Herbs of Provence Caldrea hand lotion is like a little breath of fresh French hillside air. This lotion is all natural and super rich, so I keep it by …
I could not possibly count how many cups of coffee and tea I have sipped over the last month. In the very near future I will be taking a hiatus from both (as part of a journey of fasting), the imminent arrival of which is making them seem ever more dear during the month of …
A few of my favorite reads of 2012 The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer The City of Tranquil Light by Bo Caldwell Peace Like A River by Leif Enger The Fiddler’s Green by A.S. Peterson (sequel to The Fiddler’s …
Every year I choose my five best books, a few favorites out of all the books I read. It was hard to narrow it down. So…here goes! Ok, The Willoughbys is a children’s book, but I read A LOT of children’s books so I had choose at least one. I have made all the adults in …