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Messy House Tour

September 8, 2012

This morning I let Meredith run wild in the house because I just could not deal. Usually I clean up as she goes but today I just left it all and decided to shoot a video of the mess she made. It actually wasn’t as bad as expected.

long weekend adventures

September 4, 2012

I love a long weekend. Seems like that one extra day makes a world of difference. This Labor Day weekend was a good one. After breakfast on Saturday Meredith and I hopped in the car and headed out to do some errands while we let David sleep in and do his own thing for awhile. First stop was to pick up a new batch of diapers. I was really hoping once Meredith started walking her legs would thin out and she wouldn’t need to go up in size, but it hasn’t happened yet. The mediums are too tight and leaking too much, so we had to bite the bullet and go for the larges. They look comically big on her,…
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long weekend adventures

September 4, 2012

I love a long weekend. Seems like that one extra day makes a world of difference. This Labor Day weekend was a good one. After breakfast on Saturday Meredith and I hopped in the car and headed out to do some errands while we let David sleep in and do his own thing for awhile. First stop was to pick up a new batch of diapers. I was really hoping once Meredith started walking her legs would thin out and she wouldn’t need to go up in size, but it hasn’t happened yet. The mediums are too tight and leaking too much, so we had to bite the bullet and go for the larges. They look comically big on her,…
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Good Things: August 2012

September 1, 2012

At the end of each day I write down at least one GOOD thing that happened, then I share them all here monthly. *** 1 – Easy day of work 2 – Meredith going to sleep at 7:30 allowing David &me to watch the Olympics together adding our own commentary 3 – Watching Olympic soccer with my parents 4 – Getting chores done early & being able to just relax 5 – Church potluck, making chocolate chip cookie dough, lots of good play time with M, and an unplanned sit down dinner with David 6 – Catching up on all the unread blogs in my reader 7 – Leisurely work day doing injections with one of my favorite coworkers 8 – Playing…
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Currently

August 24, 2012

I’ve been in reading/book cataloguing/organizing mode. This is my to-read shelf, and here’s what’s on it. Time // 1:45 p.m. Place // on break at work Eating // for lunch we were brought a delicious chicken in a creamy sauce over rice Drinking // afternoon coffee (my caffeine addiction has taken itself up a notch) Watching // nothing since the Olympics ended Reading // Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (for book club, on the Kindle) and Dinner: A Love Story by Jenny Rosenthal (from the library) Wanting // to finish cataloging our book collection and make the library into a happy place Thinking // about painting our front door Creating // a cross stitch I’ve been working on for ages, and fiddling around with hand illustrating a new blog header myself Hoping //…
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