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Stocking Up & Hunkering Down: Preparing for a Second Baby
Our little family of three (well, six if you count our bloodhound and chickens) is in the final stretch before a cascade of changes sweeps through our lives. Honestly, I haven’t thought enough about preparing for the transition this time around. My thoughts are consumed with purchasing land and undertaking site development for Austin’s first public Montessori school. (Note to Self: Think more about the transition to second babyhood!).The one thing I have thought about is meals. We won’t be able to afford take-out like we did post-Henry. It’s imperative that we set ourselves up to prepare meals at home, even amid the stress of a new baby.A… Read More -
A Family Table
When I was an American Studies major in college, we talked a lot about artifacts and how they can give you insight into a particular culture–how people lived, what they valued, etc.
On a separate note, we talked a lot about materialism and how a consumeristic culture can falsely equate purchasing products with attaining happiness and contentment.
I carry this dualistic interpretation of objects with me, which may explain why I had to think long and hard before trying to convince Matt to splurge on a hand-crafted dining room table.
It started with a simple Craigslist search. We knew that we wanted to upgrade our cute $50-mid-century … Read More
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Rubbermaid Closets
It’s unreal to be able to literally stand inside our house and get a sense of what it feels like. I’m surprised by how much I’m enjoying the building process. I never had the dream of building our own house; it just kind of worked out that way because of the particular neighborhood we wanted to live in (both in terms of affordability, diversity, and proximity to the school I’m trying to start) and our aesthetic preferences (we didn’t want to renovate a ranch house, which is what the rest of the neighborhood is comprised of).… Read More
But now that we’re building it, I’m thoroughly enjoying the process. We visit it
