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The Home Team No 01

Family.

The reason for everything else on this site: loud dinners, small hands, and a house worth coming home to.

It's not a quiet house, and I wouldn't trade a minute of the noise.

Everything else here, the photographs, the cooking, the books, is really just the long way of describing the people I come home to. They are the reason for the windows open, the second helping, the road trip that takes the scenic route on purpose.

The best hours happen around a crowded table, somewhere between the meal and the part where nobody wants to leave. I keep most of it to myself. But this is the shape of it: the small, repeating things that make a house the place I'd rather be than anywhere.

Around Here How we spend it
01
Sunday Dinners Loud, long, and the whole table. The meal is just the excuse; the lingering afterward is the point.
Weekly
02
The Road Trip Windows down, no real schedule, and a playlist nobody fully agrees on. The scenic route, always.
Scenic Route
03
Pancake Saturdays Too much syrup, flour on the floor, and small hands insisting on flipping their own.
Mornings
04
Small Hands in the Kitchen Future cooks in training, here mostly to lick the spoon and rearrange the spice rack.
In Training
05
The Back Porch Where the day winds down and the good conversations always seem to sneak up on you.
Golden Hour
06
Coming Home The best part of ever leaving. The door, the noise, the people who barely look up.
Always

The people who turn a house into the place I actually want to be.

The Family Album Us, mostly off guard