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04.09.16

Bonjour!

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Bonjour friends!  Eek!  I’m in Paris, France!  Biking through the French countryside and seeing things I’ve always dreamed of seeing!  (Like those goats behind us.) ;)  We are missing our kids, but having the best time.  I just had to pop in and thank all of you again who gave us recommendations!  You helped us plan such a fun trip!  Sorry I’ve been slow to respond to comments and e-mails the past two weeks.  It’s always busy getting ready to leave on a trip and since the day we arrived in France we have been going non-stop from sun-up to sun-down trying to see as much as we can of this beautiful city.  I’ll share a few pics of our trip on Instagram and Facebook and of course be back next week with lots to share.  Au Revoir!  :)

xo

xoxo, Erin
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Home Decor
04.05.16

5 ways to get your house ready for SPRING!

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Spring is here!  Bring it on.  It’s such a happy time of year.  I don’t know about all of you, but every year when the beautiful blossoms start popping out on the trees I get the itch to get my house ready for Spring!  I’m a nester at heart year round, but Spring seems to kick things into overdrive and really motivates me to get my house put together.  These are the main things I do every year to spruce up my house and welcome this beloved season.

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xoxo, Erin
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Fashion
04.01.16

Friday Favorites/Fashion

utility-kitchen-canisters-oHappy Friday friends!  What a week!  I hope you all survived yours.  I have some fun favorites to share today starting with these darling kitchen canisters from West Elm! flour-and-sugar-canister
I fell hard when I saw these and bought the Flour and Sugar canisters immediately!  I don’t drink tea so I didn’t get that one, but what a cute set!  They have one for coffee too!  They add so much charm to my kitchen and are large and so nicely made.  I’ll share more pics further back later but had to let you know about this fun find immediately.  :)  Did you all see what I did with the flour jar on Instagram?  More on that in an upcoming post too!  Let’s just say I’m in love with these jars and will be using them for many things!  Not just to hold flour. :)

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xoxo, Erin
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Food and Cooking...or lack thereof
03.30.16

An organized fridge and Tomato Parmesan Chicken

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First of all.. thank you thank you to everyone who left Paris advice!  I read every comment (so many great tips!) and my husband and I have been trying to plan so many things you all suggested.  CAN.  NOT.  WAIT.  :)  Thank you!  organized-fridge
K.  About a month ago I gave my fridge a good clean out.  This is the before pic.  Obviously. :)  To be honest with you all, these pictures I’m about to share aren’t all that special or earth shattering.  In fact, I came close to just not posting them at all.  But then I thought about how for me, seeing pictures of a cleaned out space motivates me.  Even when the after isn’t anything special or earth shattering.  So maybe these pictures will motivate one of you to clean out your fridge?  And maybe you will feel better after you do.  And that will make happy.  So I will now proceed with mediocre material. ;)

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xoxo, Erin
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Home Decor
03.28.16

Monday ramblings and a question for you!

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{Full powder room post here}

Happy Monday friends!  I hope you all had a nice Easter weekend!  Ours was great – a very full two days.  Get togethers with friends both Friday and Saturday night, gymnastics for the kids, Kole’s birthday party, church on Sunday and a nice long walk with my husband.  Now it’s suddenly Monday morning and I just got the kids off to school.  I’m sitting in a very quiet, messy house.  It’s cloudy and cool outside which feels so cozy and refreshing.  I have a lot to do, but I’m just sitting on my couch for the moment looking out the windows and enjoying the silence.  It doesn’t come around here often. :)

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xoxo, Erin
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Holidays
03.23.16

Easter in the entry!

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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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xoxo, Erin
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Home Decor
03.22.16

Kole’s room (the beginning!) and a special night

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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.

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xoxo, Erin
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Fashion
03.18.16

Friday Fashion and Favorites

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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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xoxo, Erin
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Family
03.16.16

Life Lately

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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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xoxo, Erin
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Fashion
03.10.16

Favorites at Anthro!

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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.
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(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.  :)

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xoxo, Erin
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Organization
03.07.16

Garage Organization (take one!)

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!
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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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xoxo, Erin
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