I am in love with hotel style key racks! I just think that they are so pretty and about a million times better looking than the cheesy ones that we all made in middle school shop class. Surprisingly though, I couldn’t find a lot of options out there to buy one (especially if you don’t …

Finding balance with housekeeping when you have small children can be really tough!   There are some days that I feel like I’m walking in quicksand just trying to keep up. Some days it’s so bad that I genuinely have to give myself a pep talk to get up and work on it when I …

Last fall I bought a pound of Vanilla Beanswhen I was making my neighbor Christmas gifts (which were home-made Tahitian Vanilla Extract). I had no idea how much to buy, so I went ahead and bought a full pound. I ended up having about ¾ of them left over. Talk about a happy accident! Vanilla …

A house fire has got to be one of my biggest fears! I have to say that it is a completely rational one too…which I think is the scariest part! The week that we moved here a family in our new church group lost their house to a fire. This hit a little too close …

I’m a bit of a 1950’s romantic when it comes to Heirloom Recipes (family recipes that have been passed down). The whole time I am preparing the recipe I daydream about the house-dresses that would have been worn, the retro kitchen gadgets that would have been used, the darling aprons, and the smells that would …

My house has a LOT of stairs leading up to the front door (compared to the one step we had at the condo). If I still lived in the Salt Lake Valley it would be a little bit of an issue having 8 or so steps, but out here, we get a good 10+ inches …