by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 22, 2014 | Making a Home
I cannot choose paint color without buying an exuberant amount of paint samples to try. There are worse problems, but still it is a problem. The paint chips the painting companies provide almost never, ever, never look the same once they are painted on a wall. I...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 18, 2014 | Making a Home, The Soul
I have stacks of picture frames, some empty and some filled. I have bare walls that I glance at every day and think, “I want to hang something there.” Except the picture frames stay stacked gathering dust, being moved from my bedroom, to the laundry room,...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 15, 2014 | Making a Home, Motherhood
I would dread waking up. Many mornings of making a home, this is how it went. My husband who would already be at work, would ask through the phone, “What are you doing today?” I would reply, “School and housework. Same old — same old.” Those words would drop...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 12, 2014 | Making a Home, Motherhood
It’s my default to find fault. I’m an expert, actually. My mind hyper-focuses on the flaws. However, viewing blemishes through negative eyes spoils the hope of finding any grace and beauty in what I see. See differently…Yes. When I walk through the house and see...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 8, 2014 | Making a Home
I tell this story with all the mamas in mind who think they are failures, because they may not have learned how to make a home. Maybe the dream you have for your own family and home-life is different than the one you experienced growing up, and you have had to learn...
by Michele-Lyn Ault | Sep 5, 2014 | Making a Home, Surrender
I lived behind self-built, fortified walls of security erected in fear — closed-hearted, closed handed, closed-doored. I would tell God, “I love you, but not your people.” I’d keep people out of my life and out of my home. I was okay living...
