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Tue., Feb. 20, 2007

Cheryl-anne Millsap The Spokesman-Review

I don’t know about you, but there are days that my house doesn’t feel like a place meant for resting and relaxing.

With the children’s activities and my own, it feels more like a busy airport with all sorts of traffic flying in and out.

Too often, at the end of the day I drop my keys, kick off my shoes and wade right into a mountain of laundry and other household chores. I cuddle my kids (when I can catch them), go over the next day’s schedule with my husband and try to get a few hours sleep.

I wake up and do it all again. Sound familiar? I’ll bet it does to some of you.

If we’re not careful, the place we call home, our refuge from the things we want most to keep at bay, can turn into little more than a layover, the place we drop into to kill time between legs of the journey.

We fly in, and before we know it we’re flying right back out again.

This week in Home

Greg and Tammy Cook retired from a life in the Air Force and landed right in the middle of their own airfield. They created a personal and very stylish retreat in the process.

The remodeling of their Greenacres home is our cover story.

On the Urban Style page, Amy Klamper brings us the story of a young couple just beginning a military career. And they are doing it without sacrificing their own personal flair.

As a bonus, we’ve got the story of a young man who took his love of dinosaurs to a large scale. A very large scale.

If this week’s Home has a theme, it is that life – and in the case of a talented young man, imagination – has wings.

And it’s up to each of us to create a safe place to land.

A place to rest.

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