I love keeping recyclables on hand for quick crafting projects. Toilet Paper & Paper Towel rolls, clean egg cartons (I a very careful to make sure there isn’t any egg on the ones I keep), plastic bottles, etc. These are all great for having on hands to make fun projects out of. While finishing up…
The other day, A and I spent some time outside planting flowers, pulling some weeds and I did some trimming on our lavender bushes. Doing these things usually helps me put stress to good use or just puts me in a great mood. Not to mention, it usually gets my brain turning. So, I was…
Whew! It’s been a busy week around here but I’ll give you all those details soon, I’ve been dying to find an extra bit of time so I can share today’s project with you! We made this wreath a little over a week ago and at the time I didn’t even think of making it…
I was supposed to write a blog post yesterday. I found myself last night at 11:30pm on a Saturday night scrolling through Pinterest just to find a quote to toss up, anything that I could put up there just to say I got a post up for the day. And I found one….and I posted…
It was a.day. The kind of day where I found myself in the kitchen at lunchtime with my baby boy needing picked up, the dogs whining to come inside, lunch needing stirred and my daughter wanted to be picked up because “I just want you mommy” all while battling a migraine and this toothache that…
Sometimes saying yes means letting your toddler have a tent in the living room for a few days. Eventually that tent has to come down though, especially when house guests are due to come and your living room is already small. I was prodding A along to get the stuff out of her tent so…
This week has started out kind of…frumpy. We got a very short, very lovely thirty-six hours with Ryan before he was pulled away to work 1800 miles away for another two weeks. The first few days after he goes out of town there is always something a little off about the energy of the house….
Smart feeds and algorithms are going to fail us. Follower counts and likes are going to fail us. People will undoubtedly fail us, whether they intend to or not. More importantly – the expectations we create in our heads that revolve around those things will cause even bigger disappointments, leaving us feeling failed even more than we…
Hello Love, It was so lovely to see your face this weekend, even for the short amount of time we did have with you. We missed you lots. I know it was far too short and wasn’t picture perfect but it was good, it was full of real life and even better – our life. …
“It’s nap time,” I said as I encouraged A onto the bed. A replied with a silly, “Let’s play hide and seek!” “It’s nap time. Play hide and seek with your eyeballs…ready…close them.” I replied quickly and playfully. Laughter rapidly commenced. Being her mama is so much fun, most of the time- she…
We let the kids stay up later than usual, we put them down to bed and we stayed up past three am talking about life, the now, the later, the news and caught up just like old times. The good kind of late night conversations where it feels like it’s been 15 minutes and it’s…