Today I am feeling hopeful. With the vaccine beginning to be shared, it feels like the beginning of the end. It is a sunny day and relatively warm, but I am dreaming of the weather next summer. And in fact, I have already booked our first camp site for next June, up at Lake Superior, in Cook County. I can't wait to look at the lake in the morning from the campsite, while we have our coffee and cook breakfast in the open air.

My husband Ryan and I are the proud parents of a "traveling teepee" camper by Bethany. Bethany was a Minneapolis-based service organization that produced a few thousand campers to earn funding for their missionary work. The camper-fundraiser company is now defunct. The exterior of the camper looks like a little house. To take the cuteness [...]

With fall season starting, I want to start bringing in natural textures in the dining room. The burlap topper