About the Season We Share
Three generations sharing the simple joys, challenges, and ordinary moments of life.
Home • Family • Food • Travel • Crafts • Encouragement
Welcome to The Season We Share.
I’m Jennifer – wife, mother, daughter, and homeschool educator – and this is where I share a little of our family’s story.
My husband, Patrick, and I will celebrate our 31st wedding anniversary in December 2026. We have four children: three sons – 25, 23, and 14, and an 11-year-old daughter. Even seeing that written there in black and white, I find it hard to believe they’re all in double digits now. Where has the time gone?
Our family story has taken us a few places.
Patrick and I started married life in Florida, just the two of us, carving out a life nearly a thousand miles away from our families. When the older two boys were born, however, it began to feel like we were missing something being so far from our families. So when the opportunity presented itself, we packed up the house, the kids, and the cats, and moved to Northern Virginia.
A few years later and another son later, a quick phone call from my mom that went something like, “The house three doors down is for sale, are you interested?,” led to another leap of faith this time to New Jersey, to a fixer-upper house on the same street where I grew up.
And here we are.
Our family has grown and changed through the years. We’ve navigated the joys and challenges of raising children, homeschooling, caring for aging parents, traveling together, welcoming pets into the family, tackling home projects, celebrating milestones, and simply trying to keep up with everyday life.
Parenting is not for the faint-of-heart, but neither is walking beside your parents as they age. Both paths are filled with highs and lows, twists and turns, more joy and more sadness than one sometimes thinks manageable. And yet, I wouldn’t trade the opportunity my family has had to share this season of life together!
That’s really what The Season We Share is about.
It’s about family – in all its wonderful, complicated, imperfect forms. It’s about the ordinary moments that somehow become the memories we treasure. It’s about learning, growing, making things, going places, gathering around the table, figuring things out, and finding joy in the middle of the chaos.
There will be recipes and crafts, along with stories of homeschool adventures and family travels, parenting and growing older, life with pets, and the never-ending projects at home. We’ll share celebrations and disappointments, as well as plenty of ordinary moments in between. Life doesn’t always go according to plan – ours certainly hasn’t – but perhaps that’s part of what makes a season worth sharing.
So, welcome, dear reader. I’m glad you’re here. Please stick around and share this season with us.
It is my hope that The Season We Share grows into a community of support and encouragement, where strangers become friends who share in the blessings and challenges of living across the generations, because none of us is really doing this life thing alone.
Come share the season.