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Meal Planning Made Easy
My current meal-planning system is pretty inefficient. I have a binder of recipes that I flip through to select our four meals for the week. Then I make our grocery list. If I find a recipe off the internet that I really like, I print it and add it to our binder.I love that we have a centralized place to store our tried-and-true recipes, but it’s a bit inefficient to write and rewrite all the ingredients every week for the grocery list. It would be more efficient to have a computerized system that would automatically import the ingredients I needed for whatever recipes I selected for the week.… Read MoreThe
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November: Reflection & Rejuvenation
From the Nikki McClure CalendarThe months are flying by! But it’s good. I’m simultaneously excited that we’re getting closer and closer to the birth (we’re due in mid-February) and I’m satisfied that I’m dutifully preparing for it. I think I can attribute my joyful attitude to the fact that I’m consciously making space in my life for pregnancy. I work ten hours a day on school stuff, but then I come home and take an hour-long nap and then take Hoss on an hour-long walk. Matt and I cook together about four times a week and enjoy meals out approximately three times a week. Then I usually have a… Read More -
Nursery Artwork
Charley Harper: An Illustrated LifeFor a while, I was trying to look for an art print to serve as the inspiration for our entire nursery. I wanted the print to set the colors for our decor palette and set the direction for many of our other design decisions.… Read MoreI did a lot of wading through Etsy in pursuit of the perfect print, but I lost patience pretty quickly. I kept coming back to the artwork inside the cover of our ABC book, illustrated by Charley Harper. I searched for the print on his website but couldn’t find it. Finally, I found a book of all his prints on
