One year, about an hour before guests arrived, I looked at our dining table and realized it was just a plain tablecloth with plates on it. No centerpiece, no candles, nothing that said “this is a special day” at all. I scrambled that afternoon, pulling together thanksgiving table decor ideas from whatever we had in … Read more
One afternoon in late September, I pulled into our driveway and realized our porch still looked like the middle of summer. The flip-flops were out, the flowers had gone leggy, and there wasn’t a single pumpkin in sight while every other house on the street already felt like autumn. That weekend I started pulling together … Read more
One evening in early December, I stood in front of our bare fireplace and realized it was the one spot in the house that still looked like October. Everything else was decorated, but the mantel was empty and sad, almost like the whole living room was waiting on it to catch up. That night I … Read more