Overview
Long before their hugely popular TV show, an expanding family, or demolition day on their dream home, Erin began keeping a daily online journal to help her stay focused on the positive and count her blessings in life. She never expected that her depictions of small-town life in the tiny swath of Mississippi where she Ben call home would catch the eye of a television producer and set them off on the journey of a lifetime.
Make Something Good Today offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of a couple that America has come to know and love for their easy humor, adoring relationship, and ability to utterly transform a place into something beautiful and personal. This is the poignant story of how Erin and Ben took a small, tight-knit town into their own hands (literally) and used ingenuity, community, and authenticity to rebuild a once-thriving American Main Street. And how, by combining Ben’s carpentry skills with Erin’s design eye, Home Town is making it clear to us all that small-town living can feel as big as you make it.
Complete with family photographs, Erin’s hand-painted sketches, and never-before-heard personal stories, this inspirational memoir reminds us all not to give up hope that great love stories are possible, big things can bloom in small towns, and there is always magic in the ordinary if you know where to look for it.
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Being away from home was tough, especially at first. My family, particularly my brother Tom, was such a huge part of my identity that it felt as though part of me was split off. Plus I couldn’t afford a cell phone back then, so I went from talking to my parents and brothers every day to checking in maybe once a month. I honestly felt some guilt over it, but I also saw how it was good for me. I was breaking free from my shelter, which had sustained me but had also prevented me from discovering who I was on my own.
Make Something Good Today A Memoir
At college, I got to work building a community like the one my family had always been, like the kind Daddy had helped to build in the small towns where he preached. I would find people, make a life away from my brothers that felt much the same. I would be everybody’s friend. And while it was never my intent to settle down in college, with so many girls to meet and the freedom to do as I pleased, I wasn’t long from meeting a girl like the one Mama had described. The girl I woul