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Another perk of having a house is having a front door. I couldn’t wait to move out of the condo and have a front door people could easily knock on and come into our house.
Technically we had a front door at the condo, but it opened to a hallway. Some people hung wreaths, but I [...]

It’s starting to feel like fall, the air is cool without a hint of humidity, begging you to open your windows and let it drift into the corners of your house that have been pent up all summer long. I’m sure there will still be another 90-degree day, but for now I’m enjoying this change [...]

I read this in a Daily Walk email from Relevant this morning and wrote it on a sticky note, that I promptly left on my desk at home and forgot about until I came home after work. I think it’s worth sharing.
“Prayer is any raising of the heart to God.” Luis of Granada
The short devotional [...]

I have lived in Iowa for 27 years (my whole life) and every summer RAGBRAI rolls across the state–literally. This bike ride has become an event of epic proportions. We’re talking 20,000 bikers who willingly hop on bikes and make their way across the state the last week of July, dipping their back tire in [...]

Adam and I made a pit stop at the Bolingbrook IKEA on our way home from vacation. We had 2 things we were looking for and managed to be in and out of the store in under an hour (which if you’ve ever been to IKEA, you know is hard!)
The first thing on our list [...]