jwade03 | Yellow Cottage Living

Come Sit A Spell

For years I have dreamed of having a space that was strategically set up as a conversation area. In our house hunting adventures, before we ever were seriously going to buy one, we fell in love with floor plans that offered a hearth room or a keeping room. We loved the idea of having a space where people could sit and talk in a comfortable chair and just relax, but still be able to easily grab a drink or a snack. Food is very important in our lives! Most of the houses with a keeping room ...

Recipes

Friday Fave

We’ve had a long week of cleaning and other life adventures, but I thought I would share something we LOVED this week. I made 2 batches of them so far because we just couldn’t get enough. A dozen suddenly disappeared yesterday and there were only 2 kids at home! I’m not sure any of the 4 of us present were totally honest, or could remember how many we had personally eaten straight off the pan. I first made these chocolate chip cookies from Center Cut Cook back in the fall. ...

Home Decor, Home Tour

Command Center

We’ve had the keys to the Yellow Cottage for a little over a month. Thankfully, every week of those 4 weeks or so was about the same. Swim practice. Unpack. Clean the rental. Swim Meet. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. However, our schedule is starting to pick up a bit and it became very important to me, like obsessive, that we have a calendar on the wall like yesterday! We had a good little set up at the other house with a dry erase calendar, chalkboard and a cork board. It was a hodge podge mix ...

Home Decor, Home Tour

We Bought A House

Several months ago, we began this journey to buy this house. I’m still not sure we made the most wise decision in dropping this cash, on this house, in this city, at this point in our lives, but YOLO, right? I’ll share more of the home buying story along the way, but wanted to get this first post out there and make this new venture official. Years ago, I blogged, and blogged quite regularly over at Wades’ World. My 12 year old was about 2 when I started that blog! What?!? ...