Head over to Windy Poplars today to participate in this week’s Kindred Connection Party!

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To join this week’s Kindred Connection party, head on over to Windy Poplars! This week’s question is: What made you want to start your blog?

I started Feathers in Our Nest when my husband and I got married last October. I started it for two main reasons:
1) to keep in touch with family and friends who were now a state away
2) to chronicle our journey through life together

We are both very close to our families and we miss them dearly! I wanted for them to have an easy way of seeing what we were “up to” on a daily basis (and provide some reassurance that we were getting along okay!). I thought having a blog would be the best way to share pictures and updates with lots of people at once.

I used to journal when I was a teenager, and I stopped doing that in late high school and through college. I really regret that now, since I feel like part of my life is “missing” (or at least is undocumented)! It is my hope that I will be able to look back at our blog in years to come and remember all of the wonderful experiences we shared during our first years of marriage.

Since beginning our blog, I have found many other reasons to continue it! I love being able to share recipes, frugal ideas, projects we’ve made, baby updates, and more!

I have also found many other blogs I enjoy following and I am constantly learning from them how to be a better wife and homemaker.

So, what made you want to start your blog? Do tell all at the Windy Poplars Kindred Connection Party!

It’s Kindred Connection Day (for the first time ever) at Windy Poplars. If you are joining me from KC, welcome! I hope you enjoy your visit at Feathers in Our Nest. To read more about Kindred Connection, go pay Kristin a little visit at Windy Poplars.

Here are the questions this week!

1. If you could describe your desired lifestyle in one word, what would it be?
Peaceful. I want our home to be filled with peace and harmony, reflecting the inner peace Christ has given us. I desire that my family would love being in our home because of the Peace that reigns here. I love for things to be “visually peaceful,” and while this is not always possible (life just happens!), I do want our home to be beautiful and welcoming.

2. What style of home is your “House of Dreams”?
The one we’re living in! It’s a big, beautiful old house with lots of charm. While we have some house projects on our to-do list, this house is really everything we’ve wanted! We have a big front porch, columns, crown molding, high ceilings, a partially fenced-in back yard, flowering trees and shrubs, and old door knobs/keyholes on all the doors. It could be just because it is the first house we’ve owned, but we’re pretty much in love!

3. If you could live in a fictional story/movie, which would it be and why?
I know everyone else has been saying this, but definitely Anne of Green Gables! I’m an “Anne-girl” at heart, and I love everything about the books and the movies. I’ve always thought I’d fit in better in a time when ladies wore dresses all the time (and hats to church picnics!) and thought puffed sleeves were high fashion. I also love the beauty of Prince Edward Island… sometime I’d love to visit there!

4. Do you prefer coffee or tea? Favorite kind?
Definitely coffee! Since being pregnant I stick to mostly decaf (except for the very occasional half a cup), but before that I loved getting espresso drinks like caramel frappes and iced lattes. There was a coffee shop in Lynchburg that served the BEST coffee drinks. We loved going there to read and study! There is just something about a great coffee shop that refreshes and calms me. Currently, my favorite kind of coffee is decaf with a little french vanilla creamer.

5. Share the last sweet/romantic thing your hubby did for you.
This morning I was checking my email before breakfast, and my hubby came back from running an errand. He told me to get dressed because we were going to the candy store! We went downtown (if you can call it that in our little town!) to a sweet shop that we’ve been wanting to visit and were delighted to find they serve breakfast treats as well as baked goods and candy. Tad got me a blueberry muffin and a cup of coffee (decaf, of course). Then, we went to our little local “country store” to buy boiled peanuts and local honey (to help with allergies – the pollen is SO bad here). It was a beautiful, romantic morning!

Your turn! Go visit Windy Poplars and join in the fun of the Kindred Connection Party.