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Organizing Every Inch of Our House
Yesterday was a bit rough. I dragged Matt and a tired Henry to the doctor with me for my RhoGAM shot. It’s hard going to a new doctor in a state you don’t live in, especially for such a sensitive issue. Fortunately, Matt’s mom helped us find a good place. I had to bring Matt with me because I was afraid I might break down and not be able to speak.I was able to make it through my standard speech with the intake nurse: “I would be at 13 weeks right now. The baby stopped developing around five or six weeks; we don’t know exactly when. I’ve already had… Read More -
Dream It, Do It: Update on Our House
Things are progressing well with the design of our new house. I met with the architect again to talk through the changes we asked him to make to our house. He made some really smart changes to our changes. Based on the most recent design, we asked him to make a few more adjustments, such as stretching the second bedroom closet all the way across the wall and creating a hallway closet by commandeering a bit of the closet from the second bedroom.He also had a few more suggestions:- He wants to lower the ceilings in the two bathrooms and the foyer to 8′, so he can move the
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Closets!
We are seriously in the throes of working with the architect to design our house (and by “design,” I really just mean that we are making a few adjustments to a house plan that already exists).
Matt, Henry, and I have lived in two different houses as a family. The first was a 1930s bungalow, 1,000 square feet, two bedrooms, 1 bathroom. We had no garage, so we stored our lawnmower in the kitchen closet with our washer and dryer, and we stored our bikes in our bedroom closet with our spare paint cans. Now we live in a 1960s ranch house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. We have… Read More
