Our Home in Indiana
It’s been almost half a year since my last ‘Currently’ post but the hiatus was somewhat justified. Our summer was busy with travel and seasonal activities, and in July we found out that McCarthy baby #4 was on the way! The weeks that ensued were a blur of nausea and…
The change in seasons always seems to inspire me, and a sudden drop in temperatures this past weekend has spurred on a sense of autumnal ebullience. Thanks to the gift of a beautiful book of devotional poetry (The Soul in Paraphrase, Leland Ryken) for my birthday in August, I’ve been…
I have never struggled with “depression”. Or at least not as the medical world defines it. I have felt sadness, grief, heartbreak, remorse, guilt, anxiety, fear, spiritual darkness… a gamut of emotions that seem to fall within the spectrum of this thing called depression. Unfortunately, it is the nature of…
Enjoying I’m back on board the meal planning train, after several interruptions, and looking forward to salad season! I had a good routine going with meal planning and grocery shopping that was interrupted last spring when early pregnancy nausea made pretty much everything unappealing. By fall, the kiddos had a…
Reagan is my second “holiday baby” (born during the season of Thanksgiving and Christmas) and there really isn’t a better time of year to have a newborn. Work and school schedules tend to be winding down as the year comes to a close, family and friends are gathering near, and…
It’s been about two years since we move to Indiana and around the same time I shifted this blog from “Real Housewife of Chicago” to “The Hoosier Homemaker”, choosing the tagline “Making Indiana Home Sweet Home” to summarize my sporadic blogging moments. It still fits, but the depth of the…