Category: lets get personal
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Happy Holidays From The Hendersons
I just wanted to quickly say happy holidays to all of you who celebrate in any way and thank you so, so much for being here this year (or even just today). I know that not everyone experiences the holidays the same way (this time of year can be so hard for many people). So…
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My End-Of-Year Personal Post: The EHD Highlights (And Some Lessons) Of 2025
2025 was a big year for EHD, full of more “ups” than “lessons” (which is all you can really ask for), and I feel enormously grateful to still be here. We are closing out the 15th year of the blog, which is wild (that’s most of my adult life!). Some of you have been hanging…
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What Are Your Simple And Memorable Family Christmas Traditions (Especially For Tweens/Teens Especially After The “Santa” Years…)
I had a dumb panic last week. I feel like I haven’t been the best at keeping to “family Christmas traditions,” instead trying new things every year, which is all fine and good, but is it less memorable? And now that Santa is behind us, will the kids even look forward to Christmas morning? We…
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Life Update 2025 – What The Heck Are We Up To Over Here????
This one is for those who want the “hot goss(ip)” – all things behind the curtain and under the hood in the life/business categories. Remember when that’s what blogs were? We just blabbed, stream of consciousness, and people had long attention spans and would read every word? All hail long form content!!!! Anyway, we have…
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Team News: A Big Magazine Spread Of My Brother’s House And A Recap Of Our Team Retreat!!
Y’all. My brother’s river house has a 10-page spread in the October Better Homes & Gardens issue!!! I was terrified to pick it up, TBH. Here’s how it works (at least here’s how I do it). I shoot these projects and create a big old pitch deck to send out to the magazine that I…
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46 Years Young (And A Recap Of Our Summer)
My birthday is always over Labor Day, so I’m usually with friends and kids outside in nature for a few days – my preferred state of being. But I’m not going to lie that 46 feels a lot older than 45, and inching towards 50 has made Brian and me definitely think more about our…
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Why We Don’t Have Our Rugs USA Line Anymore
So so so many of you have DM’d or commented asking a lot of questions about what happened to our rug line – why am I not on the site anymore, and do some of our rugs have a new name? It’s been confusing, and until now I wasn’t able to share (and hoped to…
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Our 10-Day Family Trip To Belize – Highlights, Good To Knows, And Why I’d Choose Belize Over Hawaii
This trip to Belize felt like our first entry into traveling with the kids, not vacation. We didn’t “backpack” (only carry-ons, though), we stayed in nicer hotels (not bunk room hostels), and we had a fully planned agenda (by yours truly), but the spirit of “travel” was there. We moved around, saw so much of…
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Our Work Retreat in Wine Country (And Some Thoughts On Running The Business 15 Years In)…
Oh, how I love a team retreat – I get both excited and nervous and afterwards feel both so full and exhausted (in a good way!). Like all aspects of our lives, Zoom is never a substitute for in-person (IRL) connection. I have found that, like a long-distance romance, the more time we go without…
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Our Work Retreat in Wine Country (And Some Thoughts On Running The Business 15 Years In)…
Oh, how I love a team retreat – I get both excited and nervous and afterwards feel both so full and exhausted (in a good way!). Like all aspects of our lives, Zoom is never a substitute for in-person (IRL) connection. I have found that, like a long-distance romance, the more time we go without…