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Displaying Children’s Artwork
Even though we still haven’t started construction on our new house due to permitting delays, I’ve been having so much fun planning the space as much as possible. My hope is that we stay at this house for the next 10-20 years (eep!), so I’m eager to get it settled and organized. I’m not someone who likes to constantly rearrange and redecorate; I like to tinker until it’s just right and then just maintain the environment while my focus shifts to other things and projects. (Well, having growing children means that the space will inevitably change in order to meet their needs, but that’s different than simply changing things up… Read More -
Organic Mattress
Henry’s been sleeping on a crib mattress on the floor (Montessori-style) since we stopped co-sleeping around two months. Now that there’s a new baby on the way (due at the end of June), it feels like a good time to upgrade him to a twin mattress on the floor. Eventually, we’ll probably pair the mattress with the MALM bed from IKEA, but for now we might as well keep it as low to the ground as possible.It won’t be much of a transition to go from a crib to a twin mattress, but we might as well… Read More -
And So the New Year Begins!
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What a whirlwind vacation: a 20-hour road trip with a toddler and a bloodhound (not nearly as awful as I thought it would be!) from Austin to Tampa, a couple days with my family in Florida, a last-minute change to our flight to avoid the blizzard that descended upon Indiana, a Christmas-day flight to Matt’s hometown in Bloomington, five days of snow, a trip to the pediatrician for antibiotics, two flights back to Florida along with a 2-hour car ride to get to my best friend’s house on the other side of Florida, a New Year’s party, a trip to the beach, a two-hour trip back to my family’s hometown,
