i get to be the thing i’ve always wanted to be today. i’ve been a mom since the moment rowan was beginning to be knit together – 40 weeks before his birth, over 7 years ago. it’s the only thing i’ve ever wanted to do: tend to a home, love on a husband, and raise
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i’m happy to be menu-planning again. if there are any specific resolutions that i make (and not the general ones i made a few days ago here on the blog), it’s getting a better menu planning system. i haven’t found anything to replace my handy-dandy notebook and pen with calendar system. i’d love an online
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this is my favorite corner in our home. it’s full of sentimental value…the china closet kenny and i brought home from our honeymoon…the silverwear chest that came from my grandparents when kenny and i got married…and the spinning wheel that kenny bought me for christmas this year….all antiques, and all meaningful in more ways than
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for “before” pictures, please refer to this dining room post and this living room post. it occurred to me that i hadn’t updated the blog on the color choice of the dining room. it’s two shades of a smokey-blue. i absolutely love it, and can’t wait to have big dinners and parties in it. this
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you know the times you go to the salon and you leave with a style or color that you weren’t planning on, and it just doesn’t feel right? and you tell yourself, “it’s only hair…it’ll grow back, and the color will fade….” well that’s the experience i had with our dining room this past weekend.
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we started painting the living room this past saturday. we got about halfway down the top of the wooden mantle (above the fireplace) when we realized there was a strong possibility that we were painting over oil-based paint. and we were (of course) using latex paint. we called the son of the previous owner (who
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we are at my least favorite time in a home renovation process: the beginning. we are planning a big task…it involves our two biggest rooms (living room and dining room) and a high-traffic area (hallway). i am very thankful that we have a back staircase to use. otherwise we’d have to move out of the
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this past week has been a bit of a challenge in the eating department. i struggle with getting food (any food!) into their mouths on most days, or getting quality food, even if it’s not much of it on others. it’s a new challenge every morning. but it’s a learning process, and all of our
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last week, when serina and i were sitting in crawling traffic inside the liberty tubes (who knew that there was a wikipedia source for the liberty tubes?!), we chatted about the struggle of Everywoman in america today: the desire to raise goats and sheep. fortunately, we are of one mind on this issue (well, she
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this image makes me happy: that is a freezer full of beef, but not your average beef. this is local, grassfed, organic beef. ahhhhh. lots and lots of ground beef (meatloafs, burgers on the grills, meatballs!) and several different kinds of steaks and roasts and stewing beef, and short ribs. i’ll need your help
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