Author: Charity
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Go Green
September 2025 I used to think I didn’t have a green thumb. I have been known to do things like overwater a cactus and leave a plant in my office to fend for itself over a long three to four-week Christmas break. After having given up on plants for a bit, I decided a Read more
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These are the Good Old Days
August 2025 As I flipped my calendar, balancing on three heavy-duty magnets on my kitchen refrigerator, to August, it felt similar to getting to the last chapter of a book, when you can feel the fleetingness of it between your fingertips. Summer isn’t over, but it’s close. For many of us with Read more
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The Hype around Home Improvement
July 2025 Homemaking is both logistical and emotional. Cooking and cleaning are unavoidable aspects of homemaking, but without the purposeful pursuing of a warm and welcoming environment, cooking and cleaning alone is simply housekeeping. Many of us think carefully about the aesthetics of our home. Decorating and organizing is not the entirety of Read more
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Adjusting to a Summer Rhythm
June 2025 Even for those who got hammered with snow this winter and whose schools extended days at the end of the year, early June is a safe bet for most that summer break is here! Kids (many adults too for that matter) look forward to it longing all year long. Even Read more
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Spring Cleaning: What to Toss or Treasure
May 2025 I can’t personally say I’ve been doing a whole lot of spring cleaning, just tidbits here and there, but it is that season. The trees and flowers begin to bloom, and we suddenly get an urge to lighten our load and dust off the cobwebs. I am not a Read more
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Forty and Blessed (not Fabulous)
April 2025 A big part of motherhood is documenting our children’s growth and milestones. But parents are growing and changing as well. This year was a big birthday for me: I turned 40. When I was a kid, we went to a friend of the family’s 40th birthday party. It was shiny black Read more
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Staycations and the Delight of Simplicity
March 2025 There’s just something about sleeping on your own pillow. I hate to be without mine. But I braved it a few weeks ago, and it was worth it. Our family went on a staycation, which has very little to do with pillows except I opted to use the hotel pillow, and it Read more
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Illness and Interruption
February 2025 I read something last month that said, “Currently doing this challenge called January. Where you just try to make it through every day of January.” We’ve made it to February, folks! But, man, January was a rough month for me. There are aspects of the new year that are hard because we are Read more
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A Toast to Tweaks
A Toast to Tweaks January 2025 Who doesn’t love the anticipation that a new possibility holds? New Year’s can be like that for some people. It’s a spanking new calendar year, a fresh start. As Anne of Green Gables says, “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in Read more
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What I Gleaned about Motherhood from Launching My Book
December 2024 My book (The Working Homemaker) has been out for two months now. Some have compared the writing process to a pregnancy, with the finishing of the project being the “birth.” I too have been thinking lately though about how that now the book is out in the world, living its own little life, Read more