Life is our little corner of the universe.
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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Tags: ah-ha!, creativity, education, ramblings
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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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Tags: change, Cinderella, Eagle, funny, mother moment, speechless
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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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Tags: change, Eagle, Freedom, laundry room, work
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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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Tags: Doodle, tae-kwon-do
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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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Tags: change, house&home, new-floor
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