* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Give Dinner a Second Chance Dinner was good, so naturally the extra gets saved. There’s enough chicken for another meal, a little soup left in the pot, or roasted vegetables that will…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Some evenings, dinner needs to be ready before everyone is home. The day has a way of stretching in different directions. Someone is running late, another is finishing one last thing, and…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. There is something about the internet going out that makes a house feel strangely quiet. The television isn’t streaming. The computers aren’t particularly useful. Nobody can scroll their way through the evening,…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Every October, we buy the giant bag of candy with the absolute best intentions. It is going straight into the pantry until Halloween. We are disciplined adults. We can absolutely be trusted…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. It happens every year without much warning. One morning you reach automatically for something lightweight and realize the weather has moved on without consulting your closet. The closet, meanwhile, is still happily…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. It always starts with one photograph. You go into the craft room looking for a particular picture—maybe the one from the family trip years ago, or the photograph of Grandma standing in…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. There is a brief window in October when the weather seems to understand exactly what we’re trying to do. The sky is impossibly blue. The trees have finally committed to autumn. The…
* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. There are some spaces in a house where you know exactly what you would like to put there—if only there were another six inches. A hallway might have just enough room for…
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* This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Some afternoons have a plan. Others quietly make one for you. It started with a single record. Not because it was a favorite, necessarily, but because it had been a while. Long…