The Best Christmas Trees, Lights, & Holiday Decorations

They're here, all in one post for you: our 2025 Holiday Gift Guides! They include everything from the things that we're getting our own family & friends this year (from small businesses and...

Every time I go to Europe for a week with just one carry on (and a purse as my personal item) I get asked for a detailed rundown of how that's possible. (There have been two times. That made it...

I love an iced something for my daily coffee. And most days that's a cold brew I make at home. For over 2 years now, I've relied on this cold brew maker to keep a delicious batch at the ready in...

We get a surprising number of questions about how we make our pour over coffee (and even requests for a video tutorial). We aren't baristas by any means, but we love an easy, affordable, and...

Anyone who knows me is typically shocked when they learn that I now have - and sleep next to! - an actual real-life cat. Even I can't believe it most days. But if you follow me on Instagram, you...

We love having friends over to our backyard firepit, which means we eat A LOT of s'mores. That means A LOT of opportunities to try unique twists on traditional s'mores. There's nothing wrong with...

Our kids are very much into the traditional Jack-O-Lantern-style pumpkin carving, often trying to make a scarier, grosser, or goofier face than last Halloween. But we still remember a time when...

The annual Color of the Year announcements are one of our favorite traditions to follow (and predict, with varying degrees of sucess). Each year, a lot of the largest paint manufacturers select a...

We got lots of questions about the "miracle" cloning paste we showed on Instagram recently. What is it? What does it do? And why the heck is it called "keiki"? Short answer: keiki paste is an...

Based on the DM pet naming requests I've been fielding lately, many of you seem to be just as obsessed with pet names as we are. So today we're rounding out our series with the last remaining...

Naming our first dog "Hamburger" (aka "Burger," seen below as a new puppy) back in 2006 officially kicked off our obsession with unique pet names. So much so that we actually pitched a pet naming...

I've daydreamed about buying a backyard movie set-up (projector, screen, etc) for several summers now. But the logistics and potential expense always stopped me... until last month! And now I feel...

We're just as surprised as anyone that we officially own a cat. And to maintain balance in the universe (since we did a dog naming post) here is the cat version for all the cat people out there -...

Before we started this website, we actually pitched a dog naming book to a bunch of publishers. This is a completely true story. We had so much fun naming our first dog, Hamburger (aka Burger), it...

We'd never really thought of Dallas as a "vacation" destination, but there's so much to do there that we barely scratched the surface on our recent trip! We ate lots of good food, explored fun...

I know a house always evolves to work with a family's changing needs, but I'd say this kitchen and attached sitting area are as close to absolutely done as ever. In fact over the last two years...

Never heard of Ocean Springs, Mississippi? Neither had we! But it caught our eye on round-ups like Southern Living's 15 Most Adorable Small Towns and USA Today's 10 Best Coastal Small Towns where...