Perfect, just in time for your Christmas shopping, Hip Hostess has a beautiful variety of aprons on her site, and this week, Debbie is giving away one Melon Splash Demi Style Apron!
Yes, you could be the winner of an apron, exactly like the one I’m wearing here!
But let me start with this. When Mary from Giving up on Perfect asked her readers, how do you define home? I couldn’t help but comment.
There are so many answers to give. Home is a resting place, a place of safety (hopefully), it’s where we get our tummies filled up and we let our hair down. My home is often messy, full of kids and laughter, and tons of noises like barking dogs and most recently power tools! It’s also not a perfect home–just ask our neighbors when they hear us yelling! Like, come on, get in the car! We’re leaving for soccer! Get your violin done! Whose turn to do the dishes? Pick up your socks! Pick up the towels! The list goes on and on.
On a more serious note though, my answer to Mary was this:
Home is where you learn to be yourself, to be real, and for my family – it’s a place where courage is bolstered.
It’s where we talk around our table about life, and we go deep. There is no untouchable subject in our home. Since the kids’ dad wrote a powerful curriculum, a faith-based response to bullying – we talk about all the cool things happening with this ministry, and how it compares to our kids’ experiences, we learn to encourage one another, which bolsters our faith. It encourages us to make a stand in life. To stand up for what is right. It helps us think of how we can give to and love others. It’s an important kind of bolstering – a kind that is required by all. And it happens at home.
ANSWER TO WIN!
So … what is home to you?
Leave a comment, share your heart and a chance to WIN something that will HELP YOU be more hospitable, right? There’s nothing like a brand new Hip Hostess apron to get you inspired!
2 CHANCES
Tweet this giveaway, add to your Facebook page, or post on your blog, and you’ll get a 2nd chance to win. Oh, and you don’t have to have a blog to be eligible to win!
WINNER ANNOUNCED
I’ll be announcing the winner on Friday, Dec. 4th!
Thank you, RE readers, for your loyalty and support. Thank you, Hip Hostess, for the chance for someone to WIN! And if you want to order some aprons right now, please use this promo code:
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Now don’t forget to enter the Kraft Foods Basket Giveaway that is still going on! And head over to The Inspired Room and check out what Melissa is giving away! So soft and cuddly! Isn’t the spirit of giving so exciting at Christmastime?
Hi, I'm Sandy. Five years ago I stocked up on beautiful glasses from the Dollar Store. As I started writing about dinner parties, I realized that this “icon” portrays a great message. It says that dinner parties are attainable, they are affordable, and that they can be beautiful even when on a budget. 
Home is that safe place where I can completely be myself. It’s where I get the best cup of coffee and the best night’s sleep. It’s where I meet my husband of 32 years (12/04/77) for the best meals handsdown. And, best of all, it’s where I feel God’s presense each and every day.
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Home is honestly just wherever my husband and babies are. I know that sounds a little generic and an easy answer, but lately, with the influx of family visits already starting…..I realize after everyone has gone home how I feel the absolute best and “at home” with my own little family. Wherever we may be.
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Just tweeted. Does it linkback? I wasn’t sure if I had to tell you or not. =)
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Home for me is wherever we are together. After being displaced by Hurricane Ike for 7 months, and living under 3 different roofs during that time, I found that I had to adjust my definition…as long as we were safe and together, we were home.
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Home is simply where we can feel safe. It is the place where we can come in and be ourselves without the fear of judgement or ridicule. It is a place to where we leave the stresses of daily living at the door to laugh and even cry together. Home is best described as a place we can be ourselves!
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Home is family and warmth and just being together. Home is calm and peaceful at times and joyful and loud at others.
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My home is my safety net (physically and mentally).
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Home is where my family is. Where love is cooking on the stove
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Home is a haven and place where no one should judge you and where you should feel totally at peace and able to rest and recharge before leaving to go back to “the outside world”.
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Home is the place to feel safe from the world. It is where you are completely accepted and loved. It is where you can be your best or worst and you are still loved. It is the place that always welcomes you and is glad to see you. There is always a warm bed and fluffy pillows, a cup of hot cocoa, and someones arms to cuddle in. And like the other commenters mentioned, this can all take place wherever your family is because they are what makes a home a home.
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That is such a loaded question…
a place where you can be “you”…a place of unconditional love…
sandy toe
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Home is a place with doors. . . doors that can swing wide to welcome family and friends, doors that can shut tight to keep out the world when it tries to invade. Home can be the site of a party or the site of a recovery room. Right now home is in this house, and I love this house–but home can move if it needs to.
Home is whatever is needed. There’s no place like it!
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home is where ever my hubby and two little boys are. we are in the military and move to a new “home” every few years. i have had to adjust my view of home to being surrounded by the people i love most.
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Home is where ever we all are. We’ve moved several times when the kiddos were little and I’m always amazed at how resilient they are… as long as mom and dad and siblings are there, all it good. I love that sense of simplicity and security.
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Home is where we raise and nurture our children and our marriage. It is a safe place for everyone and hopefully their favorite place to be.
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In the midst of a very full life, my soul is rejuvenated by just spending time at home. Being surrounded by my family, cooking a meal (or especially a treat!), making the home sparkle and smell good, decorating for each new season, getting caught up on the phone with a friend or tackling a long overdue task all help me to feel peace and calm. Don’t send me away on a trip (although that is wonderful too), just give me a day at home and I’m a new woman!
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home is where my family is & happiness!! tweeted about this….
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Home is where you feel loved and where you can come at the end of the day to just relax, sit back and be yourself. Where you can kick off your shoes and wear sweats and no one will care. Home is where you build memories.
kathy k.
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Home is where you are accepted and loved just as you are. A place where loved ones gather and joys, hopes and sorrows are shared. Love, honor and integrity towards those living with you make a house a home.
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Home is where my child can feel safe, loved, and know that his parents adore each other and him. It is where he can bring all his friends and hang out, have fun, eat good food, and be themselves. It is where we celebrate birthdays, holidays and make memories. Home is where we learn about God’s love for us, learn about hospitality, and open our hearts and arms to others. Home isn’t just four walls and a roof… it is the love that fills the structure and makes you feel welcomed, secure, and comfortable.
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Home is the place we return to at the end of the day for love and comfort and security.
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Home is a refuge. It’s a place of safety and love. It’s a place to rest and rejuvenate.
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Home is where ever my family is. I’m the happiest when we are together just watching a movie with a big bowl of popcorn, having a family game night or just watching the kids play in the pool on a hot summmer’s day. I must thank you for the chance to win that beautiful apron. I will be posting it on my blog for an extra chance. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
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I blogged about your giveaway!
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For me, I define home simply as a place where my family is gathered and the kids feel loved and secure. It doesn’t matter if that physical structure is a 3000 square foot house or a 700 square foot condo. If there’s love, laughter and good conversation (with ample amounts of coloring, play-doh and cookie baking), then that’s good enough for us!
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Faith. Family. Friends. Food. That’s it.
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Home is a place of refuge. A place where we can laugh, cry, and be ourselves and we know we will be loved no matter what we do.
Lynn
keithlynn6@msn.com
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I want my Home to be a place that is centered on God and His Love. A place where there is a lot of love, warmth, and comfort. A place to find rest, nourishment and quiet for body, mind, and soul. The place where my family is that is where my Home is and that is where my Love resides.
kimlessig@yahoo.com
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Home is where you can relax, entertain, love, and live all under the same roof. Everyone has their own version of home.
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Home is where it is safe. A place to crash and enjoy the family and friends in your life. A place to be yourself without over the top expectations from anyone.
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We’ve moved a lot over the years so home isn’t just the four walls and roof over our head. It’s where ever we’re together when we’re relaxed and just enjoying being together with no outside pressures.
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Home is where you can unwind, be yourself, and not have to worry about what other people think. Home to me is calming music, inviting candles, and a home cooked meal shared with your family!
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Home is a comfortable, relaxed place – where you can spill things and put your feet on the coffee table. I’ve been in plenty of “homes” that were treated more like museums and felt uncomfortable the whole time. Home is a place where laughter is abundant, and where you feel cherished and affirmed as a person. Home is safe and cozy and familiar (if not always peaceful!).
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Home is the serenity in our hearts when we are all together. Home is the security blanket that embraces us. Home is where our heart is.
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Home is a place of complete comfort, peace, and freedom to be yourself without judgment.
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In the words of my 9 year old…”Home is comfortable, warm, safe. And I feel loved at home”.
I think I’ll go with her definition – that makes me feel warm
(I posted your link on FB)
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Home is where I’m with the people I love in a secure and peaceful environment.
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Home is our safe place. It is the place that we can be ourselves and not be judged. We have 3 teenage boys and since they were born, we have made sure our home was the place where they felt safe, secure and loved, no matter what the “outside” world was telling them.
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I haven’t stopped by for a while, BUT, I LOVE this giveaway, and I really love your 10 commandments in your side bar. Great stuff!
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Home is where after a full day at work, a trip to the gym, running errands and getting groceries – I am able to get in my pj’s, throw on my favorite robe, hug my husband tight and prepare myself mentally and spiritually for the next day to do it all over again.
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Home means many things to me now since we have moved a few hours away from our family. Right now are so blessed to be living in a cozy little cottage in the woods, I don’t miss the big house we had in suburbia a bit. But for me home is also a long visit to my parents, Sunday dinner at my son’s house, Christmas Eve at my aunt’s, a fun party at my friends house…since we don’t get to see everyone as often as we used to all of this is home to me now too.
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Home is our safe haven from the world. It is where our grown children and their families are always welcomed and loved. It is where we gather to celebrate and console. It is our comfort.
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Home to me is where there is comfort, acceptance, and love no matter what! Being able to relax and be at ease and always welcomed. When your older children who have moved away from home come and sink into your couch and relax and enjoy themselves without being nagged to come home that’s one sign that God has blessed your efforts to make this kind of home…
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Home is where you gather yourself together to face the challenges of life. It’s a place of comfort and safety you create for yourself. Home to me is the aroma of freshly baked bread or applesauce in the making, sheets drying outside, a good book waiting to be read, children’s laughter, a hug from my husband – the simple things of beauty.
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Home is a place of refuge, joy, peace! A place where anyone can come and feel as though it’s their home!!
Where perfection doesn’t have to exist, where we cam just be ourselves!
Now heading to put on my facebook
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Home is where we have the priviledge to carry out Deuteronomy 6:5-9: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength…You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up…”
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Home is a place of warmth and security ~ a place to form and instill in my children the Godly values we hold so dear ~ a place to express true joy uninhibited ~ a place where I want all who visit to feel just as comfortable as I do and to sense the presence of God here.
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Home is where ever my family is.
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Home is with my husband and dog!
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I posted this on Facebook!
Thanks!
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Home is a sanctuary that my family can come to when the outside world is cold and unforgiving. I hope they step into our home and feel security, love, warmth, and grace. I pray “home” for them will become memories and traditions; reminders of comfort and peace where ever the Lord may take them.
That apron is too cute!
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Home is where my family is. We love to take roadtrips but I always love coming back to my home-it’s comfortable, it’s secure, it’s ours!
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Home is where my love and life is. My family. Simple as that! Would love to win the apron!
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Home is where I can put my slippers on and I don’t have to worry about if my hair’s out of place… My home is not perfect but it has all the things I love in it, most of the time!
Sandy, YOU are too cute in that apron! Is that your {gasp} new kitchen???
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Home to me is an ever-evolving story — the best external witness to what’s happening to us inside. I’ve been on a kick to transform my old story (clutter, unrest, busy-ness) to a new one of rest, creating a peaceful haven, and making time for important things, both small and large. With a new baby and 2 other small ones, it’s the best thing I’ve done for my family so far.
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Home is the warm and comfortable place I sleep every night and rise every morning. Home is the place I laugh and love the most! I know its corny, but so true – Home is where my heart is — its where my true loves reside (LL and my bub, Claire too)!
Great question!
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Home is where my family and I find sanctuary from the outside world. We find shelter and warmth here. There is a feeling of security in knowing that there is always a place we can go where there is constant love. While our home here on earth is only temporary, it is a reflection of the complete peace and comfort we will find in our eternal home.
Lovely giveaway! I love rick-rack
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Home is my favorite place to be, I just bought my first house this year and have enjoyed making it my own. There is nothing like walking in your front door and knowing you are were you are suppose to be.
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To me home is where you can finally relax, sleep, eat weird stuff, laugh, cry and basically be yourself with your favorite, most loyal people in the world. That would be family.
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Home is where we are together as a family. It doesn’t even matter if we’re in our house–if we’re together that’s really enough. But the house does add an element of relaxation, and of ministry. Home is us! The house is just where we live and have fun and minister.
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Home is where we can be comfortable, be loved, laugh, play, cry, come closer to God together. Home is being accepted, feeling warm, fed and at peace.
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Home is: the place where I’m happiest, with candles lit on the mantle, bread baking in the oven, and the people I love cuddled next to me. It’s safe, happy and full of love.
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I love this, for us home is where comfort happens. It’s where we can be real, be us and learn who are in life-in relation to God first and then others. It’s a place we can make mistakes, and learn from them. It’s a place of belonging and growing. Wow, it’s so much to us, thanks for a few moments to reflect!
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Wow….good one! Hmmm…home to me is a sanctuary away from the hussle and bussle of the world. A place where (my hope is that) our children will always always ALWAYS feel safe, secure, and loved. A place for laughing, crying, and being yourself. A place where we are ALL learning and a place where we are striving to put God first every day.
Yep…I think that sums it up.
By the way…love the handles on your kitchen cabinets…we have the exact same ones (great minds think alike)!!!
Take Care!
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Home is:
Where I can wear my favorite tshirt and be comfortable.
Where I can share an advent devotional with the man I love the most and struggle with faith together.
Where my puppy rules.
Where I can be myself and become a better version of myself.
Where I am loved.
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Well, here on earth home is wherever my family is. But if you’re a believer, our eternal home is ultimately in heaven which is something I don’t think about often enough. So, thanks for reminding me!
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Home is a haven where you can be you. Where your children feel love and caring. Home is where your family can laugh together, cry together, and pray together. It might not be clean all the time, but home is where you hang your heart each day (I know that someone else coined that phrase, but it was perfect!)
Sandy, thanks for visitng my blog last week. Yours alwsy inspires me! Thanks also for the cute give-away!
Hugs!
Susan
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Home is love…it is the place we live with the people who really know who I am. I fluff and feather and try to keep it a happy and healthy place. It is where you come to at the end of the day, and you know that is where you belong. Like Dorothy said… there is no place like it.
Susan
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That apron is super cute!! Home to me is wherever my husband is. That sounds cheesy, I know – but it’s true!
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Home is where my husband is… where ever that may be.
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What a LOVELY apron. That would be part of my Christmas outfit!
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Home is when I snuggle with my babies . . . we are in the process of moving so home isn’t a house, it is snuggle time
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Home is my safe haven ~ a place to just relax and “be”. It’s a place to welcome family and friends, eat, drink, laugh and love.
The apron is adorable and you look dynamite wearing it!
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Home is where you can be yourself. Home is where you’re surrounded by love, safe and secure.
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Home is where my family is. As Jane Austen said, “There is nothing like home for real comfort.”
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Home is a haven of safety, our sanctuary! It is also where memories are created, we are cherished and loved just as we are. Home sweet HOme!!
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Home is anywhere my husband and kids are. We just belong together. Thank you so much!
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Home…
Home is where you can walk in the door and instantly feel surrounded by peace, love, and a sense of belonging. It is wear I can kick off my shoes, put up my feet, look around, and marvel at God’s amazing provisions, both the physical and the spiritual. It is where my children feel most comfortable, nestled in a place where they are loved unconditionally and taught how to live a God-centered life. It is where people can come and expect to feel that same love, warmth, and acceptance, no matter who they are.
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Simple, home is where my family is. Would love to win the apron
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For me home is the place I feel good and secure. Home is where we share laugh, smile… The smell of awesome food I bake. My cats that are home waiting for us after work. It feels great
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I tweeted about the giveaway
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So … what is home to you?
It’s peace, love and calm. A refuge from the big bad world. ——
Happy Holidays!
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Home is a refuge..a place where each member of the family comes to be unconditionally loved and accepted. It is a place where we love, are loved in return, and constantly learn more about what it means to love!
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Home to me is where I am safe. It doesn’t necessarily a physical building but rather the people who make up the home. Hoem is where I am me and feel that is the best I can be.
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Home is a haven where my family and friends can come and feel secure and loved!
Love these aprons!!
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Home is being with my family and friends that are like family.
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Too cute!
For me home is wherever my husband is…but luckily for both of us it is Vermont – from the nature to the food, it is the one place we both love to live!
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my home is comfort, great smelling and my husband. where i can put my sweats on and relax! Somewhere where nothing else matters in the world except for spending time with my husband.
That apron is sooo cute and I hope I win!!!
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To me, home is a place where you can be your true self and relish in the freedom of being around the ones you love.
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Of course, home is wherever my family is. K
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Of course, home is wherever my family is. Wish they could be closer. K
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Home is where my family is.
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Home is right in the middle of your comfort zone.
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Home is my refuge and my comfort. The place where I am myself and where I feel safe.
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One woman stated it perfectly when she said home is a sanctuary. A place our family can come in, be together, and get refreshed after a long day. Warm, cozy and together. Together we are blessed.
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For me, home is anywhere my family is gathered.
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Home is where we are together as a family. We just moved from our first home that we built together and I was so sad because we were leaving our “home.” We moved into a small rental until our new house is built. Our rental is now HOME. We are together and our things and each other has made this house OUR HOME.
Love the apron. Hope I win!
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I have asked myself that question a lot in the last year or two! We have moved several times and so I naturally wonder those things. But I have come to the conclusion that Home is where my family can gather and where love abounds. There is a freedom to share our hearts and sometimes our hurts. We can be real. Thanks for asking! The apron is so cute and wearing one would make me feel “at home”!
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What is home? I can honestly say that I’ve had a home or a place that truly felt like home in the past ten years when I got married. Unlike my childhood home, this home feels like it. A home is place where you truly feel safe and never had to worry about being hurt. A home is a place where you fit in and don’t worry about being bullied, teased or feeling self-conscience of yourself. I home is where you are surrounded by people who love you and you love them in return. A home is where you want to go home to at the end of a terrible or happy day. This is what I have and I am grateful for it!
I would love to win the apron. I’m just starting to entertain in my new house (we moved recently) and this would help. At least it would help me feel more like a classy hostess.
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Home is where I can be myself and be loved anyway, home is where we can shut out the world and devote time to each other. Home is where memories and traditions are made. Home is a place to come home to. Home is a place to be settled (I moved 23 times before getting married), a place where you love the ordinary, everyday things. Home is a place where I feel safe and secure, a place where love abides, courage grows, respect is learned, and a gathering place for family and friends.
I suffer from depression, so a lot of my life is spent at home, secluded and alone, but this year I’m feeling good, so I’m planning some entertaining for the first time in years, I’m so excited and a new apron would be wonderful! Thanks for the chance to win.
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home is where I can be Me, I can let my hair down and do what I want. Its a place where my family finds peace from the hustle bustle of the world. Place where they rejuvinate ( re-energize) ,relax and enjoy! My HOme is our Haven.
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Home is…where no one judges you. A place with unconditional love…security, it’s cozy and warm. Home is a safe haven, a place filled with laughter and memories.
I am blogging about your giveaway for an add’l entry because I adore this apron. You look terrific in it!
Wish me luck!
Tammy
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Home is where I learn to live out Christ’s hands and feet to my children – with many, many mistakes of course.
And that apron would relieve me of having to choose a skirt for our Christmas open house!
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Home is where my family is!
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Home is where my people are. It’s where the ones that don’t live with me come to visit. It’s where we all meet for food and chat and Christmas. It’s where any of the aforementioned can bring anyone along and they’ll fit right in. It’s the best place to be.
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Home is were we feel safe to be ourselves. It might be our own house, a family member or a friends house or it could be a hotel room. Thanks for the give away.
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Home to me is where I can stay in my p.j.’s all day if I want and my kids still tell me I’m pretty and my husband says I’m hot. Home to me is where love is unconditional. It’s where tempers flair at times but love always multiplies and grows.
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Home…it’s a big word. To me home is a lot of different places and people:
Heaven, how I long for the day when I can meet Jesus, my Father…oh, what a day!!
My house where my husband and girlie live is my comfort zone, where I can let loose, where I can be messy, where I can be myself…totally.
My hometown in Canada, I think I will always call that home even though it’s been 4 years since I moved to the US.
Wherever my family and dearest friends are feels like home. A hug from my Mom feels like home, a long chat with a good friend feels like home, snuggling with my husband feels like home.
The list goes on.
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Home is where I am with my family, where I can help determine the culture of our lives, where we cultivate kindness and acceptance.
Thanks for the chance to win!
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Home is a place of comfort. It is a place that I can fall apart and there are people there that love me to build me back up. It is the only place that I know I don’t ever have to be anyone but myself.
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Home is where my family is. It could be a tiny apartment (that we live in now) or a mansion….none of that matters, if I can’t hear my kids laughter (or battles), the dogs barking, a Clint Eastwood movie (courtesy of my husband), and ‘mom’ called out a million times a day. That is home, in all it’s loud and crazy ways!
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I don’t have children, so home is where my husband and fur-babies are.
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The simple answer is that home is where my family is! And that is true, but it is also a place where we welcome others into our lives a little more when they enter our homes. This is more complex than I thought it would be…
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oh girl – home is a place of refuge (and where ever I can where that ADORABLE) apron.
Off to retweet your tweet “_
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Home is where I can be the most comfortable and relaxed, with friends and family.
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Home is where my family is.
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Home is where my family is, where I can totally relax, where I change into my pjs, and where I kiss my babies goodnight.
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We will be moving into our first home on Dec 20th and I can’t wait to make it ours:) We’ve been living with in-laws for 6 months now, so home for me means a place of my own to share with my husband and 2 little ones:) Lovely prize!! Thanks!
christinbanda at yahoo dot com
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Home is my happiness.
Hugs in the morning~~reading books at breakfast~~laughter at dinner~~games in the evening~~Hugs at night.
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These aprons bring back memories of my late mom. She had lots of them when I was growing up. I am not sure what happened to all of them. I love your site and I love your apron giveaway. Thanks for making my day, which is my birth day a happy one.:)
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My home is phamily. As long as we can all be together there is really nothing else that matters. These aprons bring back memories of my late mom. She had lots of them when I was growing up. I am not sure what happened to all of them. I love your site and I love your apron giveaway. Thanks for making my day, which is my birth day a happy one.:)
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Home to me is unconditional love. It is comfort, fun, happiness, reality, and love. You can walk in the door and shed your shoes and your worries, and just be you.
Home is comfort.
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Home is a feeling that is shared not made.
Sure, all the cozy comfy elements of decor and aromas of candles and things make an atmosphere beautiful. But for me, home is being with my husband, my kids, my family memebers, my close friends and sharing and laughing. Feeling accepted and loved. That is home.
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Home is family and where we can relax without worrying about messing the place up!
CUTE apron!
Janet
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home is… where my husband and sons are.
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Being a military family, home is anyplace where we are all together…
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Home for me is the place where I live with my children and where we all feel safe and blessed to be together.
And pretty aprons like this one remind us of this.
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My answer is going to be different than most I am sure..Home to me is…You can feel warm and fuzzy right when you step into your home. It’s when you snuggle in bed with your child(ren) and husband or significant other, it’s fresh baked cookies and apple pies. Home is not only a place, it’s a feeling or something that gives you a warm feeling. It’s eating as a family at the dinner table and sharing breakfast in the morning. It’s bed time stories and late night giving my baby her bath. It’s a cuddle with the cats at night while watching my favorite daytime shows. It’s being the best parent and spouse you can be and giving all of your love daily to each.
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I did a whole post on this back in October, after a trip to L.A….
Home is the foggy little peninsula and the house with the purple door. My home isn’t perfect (I gave up on that in favor of my sanity…and apparently blogging)…it needs a new master bathroom (Can you just imagine saloon doors? OK, they are gone now, but they were there!), the kitchen tile is atrocious, the grass is a little brown, and there is plenty of dog hair to go around.Yet, when I drive up to the house, I hear the “sniff, sniff” at the door waiting for me, my favorite picture hanging on the wall, the smell of my favorite candle, and again all is well with the world….my world. The one where my kids make messes and laughter, where I stay up too late, and where, when the sun sets on the deck, it is pretty darn near perfect…especially if chocolate chip cookies have just finished baking in the oven!
Holly
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Hope.
Ordinary people with an extraordinary bond.
Mutual respect and love.
Enough.
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Home is the safest place in the world. Where there is laughter and love abounding.
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I love your site and new kitchen! Home is food, family and fun not necessarily in that order. Hubby just left for three weeks and we’re missing him already.
A piece to our puzzle is missing.
blessings,
lise
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You can do or be what ever you want, this is what we stress and encourge in our home even if this means that your Jr in high school DAUGHTER wants to play varsity FOOTBALL! Well with a lot prayer and talking it over the the coaches she finished an entire season that included summer camps and 2 hour practices 5 days a week in full gear and maybe a little lip gloss she ended up a league champion she may not have played in every game but when she did you could hear the crowd show her their support & not just from mom & dad, so this will stay with her for the rest of her life that yes it is possible to do or be anything you want.
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“Home is where the Navy sends us.” We’ve lived many different places, but really…home is where my family is. Where we can all feel safe to be ourselves. Right now, it is warm and cozy and quiet, but in the morning, my toddlers will be awake and the joyful noise begins! I can’t wait. I am such a home-body!!
And I soooo LOVE that apron!
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Home is wherever good friend and family gather.
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What is home to me? Plain and simple… Home is anywhere my family is.
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H-O-M-E… it’s the place you long to retreat in after all the activities of the day. It’s the place where your feet can finally rest. The place your family finds connection again.
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Home is whatever you make it to be. For me it is a place where love abounds. It doesn’t matter the size or condition of your living place, so long as the bond of love holds your family together.
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