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Festive Christmas Mantel Decoration Ideas
Can you believe it is the holidays?! They sure do sneak up on us, don’t they? One of my favorite things to do is get the house decorated with lots of lights and shimmery things. This year, I wanted to go with more neutrals and natural elements. I think it is great to switch things up from year to year and I am thankful I was able to work with the talented interior designer Claire Cannesson Kahn and photographer Beatta Bosworth to showcase our home this holiday season. Use Flowers: We were contacted by ProFlowers and asked to decorate our mantel with one of their gorgeous Christmas Flowers arrangements. I really like…
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Imba Means Music: The African Children’s Choir Experience Through the Eyes of a Child
Imba Means Sing: A Celebration of Hope Through the African Children’s Choir “‘Imba Means Sing” delivers a heartwarming song of hope for the future.” – LA Times “Vibrant, uplifting documentary” – Common Sense Media It’s pretty amazing what great things can happen if someone cares enough. Over thirty years ago, Irishman Ray Barnett traveled to Uganda and saw, with his own eyes, children displaced and left with nothing, many, orphaned, due to war and political unrest. Having come from a place where he understood what it was like to be orphaned, the experience pulled at his heartstrings. After a bit of time, he got to know some of the…
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Formica® Laminate: A Modern Choice
Can you hear the yelps of joy coming from my place? Yes, our kitchen redo is finally finished and I am so excited to share it with you! I have wanted to change our concrete kitchen countertops forever and was going back and forth on what I wanted. The concrete just didn’t hold up very well over time and to get it fixed properly would have been quite expensive. And Corian and Marble countertops are gorgeous but weren’t really what I was looking for. I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted but I kept looking through Pinterest and Instagram looking for the perfect kitchen design that suited my tastes. So you can imagine my excitement…
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Tips for Raising a Reader
Next week I will be speaking to parents at a preschool about the benefits of reading aloud to your children, so I thought this would be a good time to write about raising readers. I think back to when my son was about 6 months old. How I would hold him and read board books in the rocking chair. He would have let me read to him all day. Today, he is a 7-year old book-aholic who reads everything he can get his hands on. I like to think that reading consistently to him beginning at an early age helped guide him to that path. Reading to young children, including…
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Breaking Bread with Brooke Burke
With the holidays upon us hosting or attending family dinners can be so much fun or chaotic or a little of both don’t you think? One of my favorite memories is the year my mother thought it would be fun to have a food fight on Thanksgiving. Yes, we were all sitting around the table enjoying our turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole (well, at the time my mom was the only one who liked that dish), and dinner rolls when my mom picked up a handful of mashed potatoes and threw them at my dad, laughing the whole time. After a few moments of complete shock…
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Celebrating Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. A time for us to pay tribute to the ancestry and traditions of the first Americans. The people and culture of Native Americans were met with tragedy many times over as Europeans filtered into the New World, looking for riches and putting down flags, claiming the land as their own. The first Americans faced slavery and war, being defeated by guns and disease. But the traditions and culture of the first Americans remains to be an important part of history. Our history. And much of their heritage, beliefs and traditions teach us about respecting the Earth and using resources wisely. Something we often forget…