Ever since we moved into our house in April 2015, I have wanted a new dining room table and chairs. Not only had my taste significantly changed from when we first purchased our modern-styled set some 4 or 5 years ago, but it really didn’t fit the space available in our new house. Our table…
Pretty soon, your mailbox will be flooded with Christmas cards. If you’re like me in years past, you’ll leave them on the counter for lack of a better place and then find them randomly crushed and chewed on and shoved under the couch because your toddler got to them (you thought I was going to…
We’ve got a whole gang of superheros in our house this Halloween. Lincoln wanted to be Ironman, so I obliged and bought him a super cheesy packaged costume. He looks hilariously adorable, so I can’t complain. Mia wanted to be Batgirl, which I was happy about because I knew it would be easy to put…
This post is a long time in the making. Because sometimes DIY projects take me FOREVER to complete. The home we purchased earlier this year was a flip, which is great because of lot of it was new. The downside that everything was very generic to please the masses and didn’t have a whole lot…
When we first moved into our house, our small pantry had a bi-fold closet door on it. This was a problem for two reasons: The already small opening to the pantry was made even smaller when you opened the door and pushed it to one side. It was lame. I knew even before we moved in that it…
Our new home has two small bathrooms. Like most women, I’ve always had big dreams of a giant master bathroom with a soaker tub where I could lock the door and escape… but of course, we can’t have everything we want. A master bath is one of the things we sacrificed when we decided to…
At our old house, we had a tiny entryway where we all fumbled over one another trying to remove our shoes and coats before we got mud and dirt everywhere (especially in the winter). There was very little space to hang coats or backpacks or purses, and even less to store shoes. It was my…
Father’s Day! Time again to celebrate our amazing husbands who also happen to be amazing fathers. I don’t know about you, but as I start to plan my gifts for the Mr. every year, I tend to go a little overboard. I get what I refer to as “christmas for the kids syndrome” where I…
I am sure we aren’t the only ones who lovingly refer to our grandpas as “Papa.” I went through a phase of calling my own dad “Papa” because I watched a little too much “Little House on the Prairie” growing up… but that’s neither here nor there. Now my kids call their grandpas “Papa,” which…
Why is Ikea the best thing ever? I mean, really. Years ago, my husband and I decided that we were old enough to buy “real” furniture. Furniture that was pre-built, made from solid wood, and didn’t have “Flork” anywhere in the name. And thus we decided not to buy any of our big, necessary items…
