About This Blog

Hello! We’re Mike and Mollie, authors of This Evergreen Home. We’re glad you stopped by. You can contact us here.

It was on a long 10-hour car ride with three kids in tow that the idea of this blog was dreamed up. We both knew that we wanted to create something together, and with past experience in blogging, we thought that would be the perfect platform.

But what to blog about, and why? Those were the questions we wrestled with as the highway miles stretched before us. Strangely, at first it felt easier to define our ambition by what we didn’t want it to become.

We didn’t want to create a parenting blog (though we weren’t opposed to the rich stream of content ideas that came from being parents). We also didn’t want our blog to be an “expert” blog. Neither of us feel like experts, not by a long shot. Not in parenting, not in life, and not in our faith— all areas important to us, but to which we could only claim to be learning as we go, along with the rest of our peers. 

Eventually, what began to emerge is that we wanted to create the very blog we wished we could read. A blog that wrote about all the kinds of things we talked about on date nights, sitting on the couch together, and around the table with our closest friends. Things like living intentionally, parenting well, loving deeply, prioritizing goals, simplifying, and the things that really matter. Yes, that was it— a blog that we ourselves would love to read, and maybe, just maybe, others like us would love it too.

As I stated earlier, we don’t consider ourselves to be experts on the topics we’ll write about. Think of us like good friends, trading notes about what we’ve noticed and what we’re trying. Maybe something will strike a note with you or maybe something you share back will give us a new perspective. 

To all that is evergreen in the human experience— to those things we dedicate our new blog.

About Mike & Mollie

Mike and Mollie met in college. They both arrived a week early for their freshman year of college for a grueling week of cross-country camp.

Between logging endless miles on the trails and getting to know his teammates, Mike took a noticing to Mollie. It would be months before she truly noticed him. Well, at least in the way he hoped to be noticed by her.

Over a decade later, they are now married with 4 wonderful kid.

Mollie enjoys all aspects of family life. She homeschools their four children and enjoys running, reading, taking photographs of friends and family, and a hot cup of coffee.

Mike has a career in digital marketing, enjoys playing softball, and loves to read. He likes to keep himself busy with a handful of side projects at any given time. But mostly, he’s just a guy who loves his family and laughing with friends.

While Mike & Mollie are serious about having fun and enjoying each day, their highest aim is to live a life filled with meaning and purpose. This blog follows their journey of living simply and intentionally in order to create more space for the things that matter most.

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