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This post contains affiliate links. My four-year-old and I do not see eye to eye on the value of potty training, and she reminds me three to four times a day that I have no control over the situation. No control? Oh, we’ll see about that. A couple weeks ago, after yet another accident, I finally decided […]

This post contains affiliate links. Last night we finished decorating the baby’s room. Yeah, yeah, I know he’ll be five months old on Saturday, but what can I say? He’s kept us busy. When we first decided to give him a room of his own, we weren’t even planning to decorate it. I mean, sure, […]

It snowed on Sunday, just like it did four years ago when Harbour was born. I remember going to pick up the birthing tub at the midwives four years ago. It was the day before her birthday –  I was 40 weeks + 2 days. The midwives told me that a wicked winter storm was […]

Every New Year’s Day I say that I’m going to get organized – that I’m finally going to conquer the clutter. So I dutifully take out books on home organization from the library and I subscribe to organization blogs and come up with decluttering plans. “This is going to be the year,” I tell myself. “I’m […]

Apparently 2014 was the Year of the Horse, according to the Chinese Zodiac. I was really hoping it was the Year of the Cow because I was going to be all clever and declare it the Year of the Cowl instead. Booyah. Alas, my cleverness will go to waste until 2021 when the Ox year […]

Every time I slip on a pair of leggings, I can hear the voice of Peggy Hill in my head. It’s the episode in King of the Hill where Peggy enters a beauty pageant, confident that the judges will prefer her brains over the typical big-haired beauty that you’d normally find in a Texas show. She […]