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There are just under two weeks left in my pregnancy – nine days until my estimated due date. It’s funny – for most of this pregnancy I generally had no idea how far along I was and once a week or so I’d enter my due date into pregnology.com to find out. Then, once I hit […]

We started our homeschooling up again last month. Yup, halfway through the summer. We even started on the holiday Monday of the August long weekend. We’re soooooo mean. When you think about it, though, there was really no reason not to. Other than the daily ten minutes of copywork (handwriting) that River dreads, she thoroughly enjoys everything else. She […]

For the first time since we moved in, I feel like our house is too small. Except that it’s not actually our house that too small – like everyone else, we just have too much stuff. I’ve been wandering from room to room, wondering how I can possibly clean up when there is no room left to put […]

Last week, I stumbled across a picture of our kitchen that I took a week before we moved into the house. Sorry for the lousy picture – clearly I wasn’t thinking about possible blog posts four years down the road when I snapped this shot. It’s been a long time since we looked at this photo. […]

Last week we had another life lesson where River learned important things like “life isn’t fair”, “misunderstandings happen”, and “you just have to deal with it and move on”. It happened at the last ballet class of the year. It was a hard day all around. Even though we spent the day at a pool, I could see […]

Update: Did you see how amazing our kitchen makeover was? Check out the pictures if you haven’t already! After a long and busy weekend, I lay in bed on Monday morning and mentally worked out the day ahead of me. I knew that if I planned the day well, I’d be able to accomplish a […]