Welcome!

Hello there! Welcome to 5^th & Phillips! I’m so happy you’re here! I’m Miranda Phillips! Wife, Momma, Aspiring Blogger and Holiday Fanatic. (excuse the shameless selfie!)

My object in starting this blog is to create a space for you lovely ladies to come for your afternoon (and by afternoon, I mean nap-time) refreshment and recharging! I love to write about my home, my three babes and navigating the tricky waters of womanhood and motherhood. Every so often I enjoy talking about the weightier topics of life. Things like marriage, parenting and so on…

So let me tell you a little bit about my family and myself! I am a native Texan but I will always call south Louisiana home. I grew up in Texas and graduated high school there. My husband and I split our time between Houston and New Orleans. We moved to the New Orleans area about a year before we got married. We picked a small town outside the city on a whim and fell in love with it. We spend a lot of time going back and forth but this is ultimately where we want to end up.

As you probably guessed my husband, Brandon works in the oilfield, as I’m sure a lot of your husbands do too! The situation with that has been quite stressful for us lately but we are hopeful that we will get through it all right. He is such a trooper and really the glue that holds us all together in times of trouble. He is my best friend and I am so grateful for the life and the children he has blessed me with. He's also a bit of a weirdo, and I love that about him. Here he is in his happy place :)

We have three kids, Jude age 10, Jaden age 8 and Gemma age 2! Jude and Jaden are my stepchildren so they spend part of the year in Arkansas and part of the year with us splitting that time between LA and TX. They are citizens of the world! Brandon was in the Army when they were born so one is from Oklahoma and the other is from Mississippi! You can imagine how they feel about traveling. Gemma was born June of 2013. She has her father’s outgoing personality like her big sister Jaden, while Jude is the more thoughtful reserved one of the bunch.

We are also host to quite a zoo! We have a rescued Black Cap Capuchin named Kai, A flop eared rabbit called Eden and a sweet Boston terrier named Daisy. We get lots of questions about how we have a monkey, is it legal, what about our kids and so forth. I’m sure throughout my blog posts some of those questions will be answered for you.

We live in a tiny house built by my husband and myself. It is the loveliest home we’ve ever had. So much time and effort was put into making it our dream home and that is exactly what it has become. It is 904 sq. ft., which technically disqualifies it as a tiny house as those have to be 400 sq. ft. or less but we consider it to be tiny as it houses 5 people and three pets. We have always been intrigued by the tiny house movement so last fall we decided to pack up and move out of our 2500 sq. ft. subdivision home and build a tiny house in the country!

My goal is to reach out to the wonderful and empowering women around me and share a little bit of inspiration and joy. If at anytime you have feedback I would LOVE to hear it. You can reach me by email at fifthandphillips@gmail.com

P.S. In time it will become increasingly obvious that we are not one of "those" families. Our hair is not always in place. The kids sometimes wear stained clothes. The background of our photo's contain real live messes! (the scandal!) So you know we are riddled with imperfections. We're pretty proud of that and we hope you are too.

Happy Reading!

XOXO

Miranda