I’m not sure if it’s because it’s 95 degrees outside and I would rather be anywhere else than in this scorching heat, or because I just watched Book Club: The Next Chapter, which is set in Rome, but I woke up today daydreaming about our time in Italy a few months back.
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Grab a cup of coffee, settle into a cozy chair, and let’s take a tour of our Beach Shack!
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The morning sun is pouring through the windows in our office as I sit here and sip my coffee in silence. It’s not yet hot out, but it’s scheduled to be soon. And with that, and a few other reasons, we are ready for the seasons to change.
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After being gone for 11 days, we’re finally back home. It’s funny, walking into our house it felt huge. Going from small rooms in a 720 sq ft Beach Shack to our modest-size house, suddenly the rooms felt so much larger than I remembered and I found myself feeling overwhelmingly grateful for our 99 year old Craftsman.
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Whenever we make our way down to the beach, I always try to bring a book with me. As I’ve gotten older I have found I crave sitting in a chair on the beach, listening to our kids playing and the waves crashing, and getting lost in a good book.
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The number of forcibly displaced people is at an all time high in 2023, with figures exceeding 110 million humans who have been forced to flee their home from persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations.
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We are finally staying at the Beach Shack this week for the first time ever and so far, we’re having the best time. Part of the charm of this little cottage is that everything here is smaller than it is back home, which we’re actually starting to love. However, because the rooms are so tiny, the bed we’re sleeping in is also smaller. At home we have a king, and here we have a queen, and after sleeping in the queen for a week, honestly…
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Happy Friday evening!!
Sweet readers, what are you up to this weekend? We’re still at the beach and had the most beautiful, relaxing day playing, lounging, and relaxing in the sand.
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In a world that stresses having more of everything, and that excess is where your worth and value come from, I can’t help but think that bigger is not always better. In fact, it might be the opposite. Sometimes, all that matters is who you’re sharing your time and space with.
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Thoughts and feelings on our third day spent at the beach, and how grateful I am for it all.
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Last night, as we were texting Matt & Beau, they asked us how we would describe our day in one word. Last night, I told them my word would be “relaxing”.
Today, PJ texted them a photo of us at the beach and told said his word would be “relax”. I like that we’re both on the same page here, because that’s exactly what we plan to do for the next couple of days. We both have a few work things to take care of and once those are complete, we plan on relaaaaaaaaxing for the rest of the time. Maybe I’ll even turn our out of office on.
Maybe. We’ll see. Probably not.
We’re at the beach staying at the little beach shack we bought and renovated last year for the first time!!
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Happy Friday!!
Dear readers, what are you up to this weekend? How was your week? We’re ending it on a high note, much higher than last week’s (which, let’s be honest, isn’t hard to beat). But like I wrote about in yesterday’s post, this week felt like the beginning of something great. Only time will tell!
Meanwhile, we checked in on Holiday House this afternoon and the drywall is 95% finished! I didn’t take any photos so you’re just going to have to take my word for it, but Iit looks incredible. After almost three years of working on this little cottage, it’s almost indescribable how good it feels to be at this stage. I need to think of a good word for it. What’s a word that better than great?
Also, as I’m writing this, PJ just fixed his farm truck that crapped out on us last week as we were pulling out of the gate to drive it home after the accident. Things are already looking up!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend, loves. xoxo
I was woken up this morning to the sound of a torrential downpour happening just outside our windows. It was pitch black and the whole bedroom felt cool, dark, and safe, exactly the kind of combination that makes it extremely hard to get out of bed.
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After the week we had, it felt so good to spend a few days with family and friends.
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My loves, remember back in February when we teased something fun we filmed for the day? Well we can finally show you what it was: Our first official house tour we’ve ever done (after six years of living here, no less), and we filmed it with HGTV!
It only feels appropriate we shared our house with them behind the wheel, since they were the ones who filmed our house’s renovation back in 2016/2017 for our pilot Down to the Studs that premiered on HGTV back in the summer of 2017. It’s crazy to think that was six years ago. What is time anymore?
Anyway, in the tour we tell the story of our house, how I grew up here and how we bought it back, and show almost every room (with the exception of a few that we couldn’t show because they were in no way shape or form ready for cameras), explaining along the way the story behind every one. It was such a fun, exhausting day, and I love that we can finally see what we filmed all those months ago. We didn’t get to see any of the footage until it aired, which happened to be on the day of PJ’s accident, so we ended up watching our house tour from the emergency room. Life is kind of funny sometimes, isn’t it?
You can click here to watch, if you’d like!!
This happens so infrequently that it must be documented any time it does.
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