by Brooke Romney | Feb 19, 2014 | Books
Snowflower and the Secret Fan and Shanghai Girls are two beautiful books about the Chinese culture. I loved both of them so much and found the women’s lives and experiences fascinating, heartbreaking and inspiring. Both were books that kept me up at night and...
by Brooke Romney | Feb 13, 2014 | Gift Ideas
My mom just gave our family an early Valentine’s gift that we love, STOMPLE! We love games, but we had never heard of Stomple. So, we busted it out last night and it is so much fun! It is a marble game that involves a lot of luck and a little strategy and...
by Brooke Romney | Feb 11, 2014 | Relationships
15 Ways My Husband Makes our Marriage Work Since it is Valentine’s week, I thought it was a good time to get a little sappy and share 15 ways my husband makes our marriage work. Please stop reading here if you hate it when things get a little mushy or think you...
by Brooke Romney | Feb 10, 2014 | Travel
If you are craving a day of antique shopping or interested in seeing a little of Detroit’s history close to home, check out Materials Unlimited on Michigan Ave. in Ypsilanti. It is a beautiful store full of antique treasures collected from demolition jobs and...
by Brooke Romney | Feb 6, 2014 | Travel
If all this Michigan winter has you wishing you lived much further south, take a break from the ice and snow and give yourself a little taste of summer at the Kalahari Resort in Sandusky, Ohio. Just about 2 hours away from Ann Arbor, it is the perfect family get away!...