Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed with life and everything on my to-do list I have a little trick I do that helps. It’s a secret, but I love you all so I’m happy to share my secret with you. Ready for it? Here it is..
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I have so many projects going on around my house right now my head is spinning. But it’s a good spin. :) My three main BIG priorities this year were to get our garage organized, my master bedroom decorated, and Kole’s bedroom decorated. All three of those projects are in motion right now (yea!). I’m also working on a spring table setting, multiple gallery walls, completely re-organizing my office, and I’m half way finished with my new system for storing kids’ school/art work. Oh! And it’s Kole’s birthday party this Saturday and Easter on Sunday. Add every day life with my kids to the mix and I might be going just a tad crazy right now! The funny thing is that I’m seriously itching to jump in and start organizing my closet. I might start tomorrow morning.
Continue reading “Kole’s room (the beginning!) and a special night”
Friday is here! YEA. Thanks for the sweet comments on my recent Life Lately post. Hearing from you all makes my day and I love feeling like this is a safe place to share a peek into my life. The good and the hormonal. ;) Speaking of sharing, I have some fun favorites for you all today! I bought this black and white striped throw about a month ago and love it on my family room couch. After I added more black to my office I decided to try and bring black into a few other areas of my house.
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Is it Wednesday already!? Thursday by the time you all read this. What a week! I keep thinking I’m going to have a slower week where I can “catch up” but I’m finally learning that no such week exists! At least in the stage of life I’m currently in with my kids. I was remembering today (while I was in my car for almost 6 hours straight driving kids to their various acivities) back when I was home with one baby searching for things to fill our days. That was a hard stage for me, but right about now I wouldn’t mind re-visiting one of those weeks. ;) Here are a few random phone pics of what we’ve been up to! Kids are finally feeling better and back at school. Having sick kids for over a week definitely makes you appreciate life when everyone is healthy and doing well!
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Happy Thursday friends! Excited for today’s post! Ellie and I went shopping. We had a good reason. Not that we need a good reason, but this time we had one.
(a long time favorite quote of mine) :)
El had worked hard to earn some money and knew what she wanted. March is my birthday month and I knew what I wanted. Not our best pic above, but we only had time to take one because we were busy hitting our favorite stores. One of my all time favorites? Anthropologie. When I say that name do you immediately smell the Anthro smell? If not, you need their candle. :)
Continue reading “Favorites at Anthro!”
So I’m back. :) We are having a much better day so far. Antibiotics are here and we are determined to get rid of all sickness. Crossing my fingers that it skips me! We all know that when mom goes down, the ship sinks fast. :)
If you remember my 2016 to-organize list one of my top priorities this year is to get our garage in order. I titled this post “Garage Organization (take one!)” because there will be several posts in this series. I’m getting this garage organized (REALLY organized) once and for all and I’m taking you all along on my journey!
I wish I had more pictures of just how messy my garage has been for the past two years since we moved into our new house. Quite the dumping ground! The first thing I did was move our cars out of the garage and pull everything into the center. I swept the sides and the perimeter of the garage floor and then went through each item deciding what to keep and what to send packing. I took the picture above after I had gone through about half of our stuff.
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Happy Monday friends! We’ve had a weekend of pj’s and couch time with sick kids. My kitchen is a mess, my bedroom is a mess and there is laundry piled so high I don’t want to even go there. El snapped this picture with her phone today.. she’s actually feeling fine. My two other little sidekicks shown here.. not so much. Poor things. Ad is doing much better but Kole will be home with me tomorrow and we are heading to the dr. first thing! Never fun when kids are sick. The upside is that we had a major Star Wars marathon (I think it was part of the love story when this picture was taken – those are the parts Ad and I perk up during) and I was able to get a new post ready for you. It will be coming sometime on Monday so pop back in if you have time! Tonight I’m off to bed. I think I slept a total of 4 hours this weekend and this mom needs some rest! Along with a fairy to help my sick kids sleep through the night and then magically whip my house back into shape.
Continue reading “Our weekend.. real life”
Alright friends. Let’s do this! I’m finally sharing pics of my decorated office/craftroom today! YEA! This post is going to be major picture overload so grab a snack, get comfy and I apologize in advance if I crash your computer. :)
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Hi friends! We are back. Had such a great trip to Kauai. I took too many pics and will have to share more at some point, but after today’s travel and recovery (unpacking, laundry, grocery shopping, school prep, etc.) I don’t have the energy to go through them all right now. :) Here are just a few quick snap shots I got with my phone. Above was our home for the week! We have stayed here before and love it. I’m hoping to do a post at some point on fun things to do in Kauai and Maui and in those posts I’ll share more details about where we always stay.
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Hi friends! Sorry things have been a little slow on the blog this week. We spent last week skiing in Utah and are spending this week vacationing in Kauai. I know. Two weeks of vacation.. one right after the other. One in the snow and one in the sunny tropics. Kind of funny how it worked out that way this year (best with our schedules), but you won’t hear me complain! I had one day in-between that we were home last Friday. My husband had to fly to San Francisco for meetings for the day. I spent the day washing snow suits and packing swim suits. :) Here are a few pics of our ski trip from last week (all quick pics I snapped with my phone). We left my 5 year old at my parents for a few days and just took the girls. I think we’ll take him with us next year, but at this point he would rather stay and be spoiled by two sets of grandparents than come skiing with us. :) My husband and I love to ski (a lot of our first dates were on the slopes!) and this little yearly ski trip with our girls has become a tradition since we first took them two years ago. The four of us look forward to it so much!
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Alright friends. Kitchen organization. Let’s do this. :) I’ve been working on getting my kitchen organized from top to bottom. At some point I’m going to do a post that shows inside every cupboard/drawer in my kitchen – how everything is organized and where everything is located. But that post overwhelms me because it’s so much picture taking. So I thought I’d show you my kitchen organizing progress along the way. Then at some point I’ll combine what I’ve shared along with a few things I haven’t shared to make one BIG organized kitchen post. Should be a party. :)
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I hope everyone had a happy Valentine’s day today! 
I’m sharing what our mudroom doors have looked like this week. This was our mudroom locker doors “before.”
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