I still laugh when I think about that rainy Saturday morning last spring when my two kids turned our kitchen into a confetti battlefield. As a forty-something mom, mornings are a choreography of school lunches, lost socks, and coffee sips in between taxiing the kids to piano and soccer. Our neighbor waves as she walks her dog, and I remember the way my own mom used to pin paper hearts on the mantel when we were young. Those small, imperfect touches made our house feel like a home. Lately I’ve been borrowing that nostalgia to soften corners of our busy…
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I still remember the small paper hearts my mom taped to the inside of the car on chilly February mornings, and now I’m the one juggling lunches, school drop-offs, and neighborhood soccer carpools while sneaking in tiny surprises for my two kids, ages 8 and 12. Our house smells like cinnamon most afternoons, and the chalky footprints by the back door are a kind of family wallpaper. Between homework sessions and piano practice, I love pausing to rearrange little corners of our home so they feel warmer and more personal. Those small styling moments have become a ritual for us,…


