And if you really love the big group home tours that we do where you get to (virtually) travel from house to house and peek in at what everyone’s done in their home, don’t you worry!

You know what the kicker is?It’s a really really good e-cookbook.

It’s filled with tasty recipes, and inspiring blurbs, and sharp-looking designs, and really talented wonderful bloggers.. It’s called the Holiday Heirloom Recipe Collection and I get to share it with you.We want to share with you some of our famillies’ best-loved heirloom recipes and maybe help you start some new recipe traditions of your own.. And we want to keep the recipe sharing going!You can link up your own recipes below and have them shared on all the fabulous blogs of the bloggers featured in the book.

At the end of the week, we’ll all be picking our favorites and featuring them for our readers.I share my recipe for Ambrosia Salad.. Want to know a secret?

The photo of my recipe is really the first picture I’ve ever taken of food that wasn’t a total disaster.

Let’s check out the book now, shall we?.There was an unmistakeable pull out in the wide-open spaces of the country for us.

So now we rebuild all those little details of our life in our new, old house.It’s a shaky way of living for now.

All those little insignificant tidbits of day-to-day living build up to mean a whole lot when there’s no more same ‘ol way of doing things to fall back on.I have to remind myself: We have to rebuild all these underlying things that make life feel stable, but also, we.