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July 05, 2010

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White Roses

I Love Valentine's Day. I Love Roses. I Love the color white. So it's no surprise that I'm drawn to white roses for Valentine's Day. Their beautiful simplicity gets me every time. And I've been seeing lots of white roses around. Here are a few of my favorites: This STUNNING cake from Amanda at I Am Baker...Love it. These feminine flowers for your hair by emmersonmade. Beautiful rose covered pillows. and the Rosemary headwrap from my little etsy shop.

Defending Domesticity

Home is the sacred refuge of our life. John Dryden How many times a week do you get asked, "What do you do?" I guess I never really paid attention to this question when I had a tidy little answer to give. "I'm a mental health counselor," was my reply for the five years after college. I'm fascinated with people's reactions to my answer now, "I stay at home. I'm a housewife." (crickets...) In a world where women have fought for centuries for the freedom to choose,the idea that a married woman without children would choose to stay and take care of a home is met with awkwardness and the eventual question... "Then what do you DO all day?" Oh, how can I tell you the pure joy of caring for a home and family (even if both are small right now) in a way that you will understand? How can I explain the luxury of making meals from scratch? Of having a place for everything and everything in its place? Of the smells of fresh laundry, rosema...

Journal

It started with a little red leather journal. I was a newlywed, living states away from family and friends. Our desperately small apartment filled with boxes of wedding gifts as we tried to make our two lives one. My elementary school yearbooks, his baseball glove. My tea cup collection next to his boomerang. I was in the middle of changing my name, address, and life. And I was job hunting for the first time. I had to go the library to google how to get to Wal-Mart. One afternoon I decided I needed a break from unpacking and dealing with the bureaucracy of trying to get my new driver's license with my new last name (what do you mean I have to wait until I have a bill sent to my house...all the bills are in my husband's name?!) I slipped into a Barnes and Noble and came across a delicate, leather-bound book. I gathered the last bit of our wedding money and headed to the check out counter. As I drove home with the little journal sitting in the passenger's seat I thought ...

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