Smithtopia

If you don’t have a clean dish in the house… If you’ve reached the “don’t have a clean shirt, either” state… If your kids now look for clothes on the floor instead of in their dressers… If you’re kind of regretting taking down that curtain & ripping up that carpet… If you haven’t made your bed in over...
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Tag!  I’m it! Or, rather, I was given… drumroll please!… an award!  Oh, happy day!  I met Karen in person at the See Jane Become gathering, and it was such a treat.  She’s a lovely person and she writes a lovely blog, and she gave me this award quite a while ago.  (Thanks, Karen!) And then… Another...
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Hi. I’ve been a lazy blogger lately. Sorry, I still can’t use the word “lazy” without thinking of Lara Gallagher.  (I miss your blog, my friend, but I admire your decision to stay away from this crazy addiction.) It’s that 2-year-old mess maker, honestly.  I just had to save the playmobil people from drowning in grape jam. ...
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Two.  What a marvelous age! This little monkey man is at the stage most would call “handful.” How’s that? Well, let’s just say I discovered this week that he has the amazing ability to turn a bottle of glue into a 35-ft trail across the house… in all of about 30 seconds.  Maybe he needed the trail...
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Yes, the other red curtain finally fell. And I didn’t put it back up.  (The first red curtain story is here.)  Instead, I finally gutted & reorganized the laundry room. I actually never thought this would happen. No, really, I didn’t. That room has been an absolute disaster for a long time.  Like, since we moved in...
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Aw, isn’t “Little Dragons” a cute name for a class full of 4 year old Tae Kwon Do dudes? I thought so, too. Doodle was just a little bit happy, just a little bit excited, and just a little bit awed by the whole white-belt-testing ceremony thing.  Me too. John did martial arts in high school,...
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It kind of feels like the whole house has been turned upside down.  In some places (cough, cough, laundry room) it looks like it, too. Here’s the one room that isn’t a mess. I took pictures, printed them, and taped them to the back of her door, so when she goes to bed at night and...
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