We’re trying this new thing at our house to get Garrett motivated to do what we say when we say it. Positive reinforcement, if you will, since we’ve really been struggling with the terrible two’s lately. I stumbled across this Melissa and Doug Magnetic Responsibility Chart at TJ Maxx one day. “How cool is this?” I thought. Then, “What the…
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De-beiging the bedroom
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The master bedroom in the new house was not in bad shape when we bought it. It was just beige. VERY beige. The walls and carpet were beige. And with our beige-ish furniture, it just looked really blah and washed out. See? (Garrett’s face cracks me up in this picture!) I really wanted to recreate the way that the dark…
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Half Bath Botheration
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I’m finally ready to start showing off some of the projects that we’ve been working on since we moved into the new house. The house was built in 1996, but fortunately most of the house had been recently updated so there isn’t too much for us to do. Which is a great thing considering I have a two year old…
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The real reason Bella didn’t choose Jacob.
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There’s not enough Drano in the world to handle all that fur. Not to mention the laziness factor.
Cloudy with a chance of muriatic acid.
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When we bought this house I had Clark Griswold-esque visions of our family frolicking in our new pool while singing Mele Kalikimaka and sipping fruity drinks. Four short weeks into pool ownership and those visions disappeared into a fog so thick you could cut it with a knife. And the summer of my discontent began. We were battling algae and…
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