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How to Live Through a Kitchen Renovation with a Baby

It’s been a while since our last update on living through a renovation. Our reno, which was quoted at 5 weeks, maybe 6, but hopefully 4, is now in its sixth week. So we stretched to six. And we probably have a month to go before the counters get installed. Pretty...

Gift Guide: For Dogs & Cats

It’s not all about human babies around here… our lives revolve around our fur babies just as much. With our 14-month-old goldendoodle Ruby, 14-year-old black cat Trixie, and 13-year-old little cat Mocha, we’re pretty much surrounded by animals at home at all times. And they need Christmas presents, too! Here are some things that...

Pantry + laundry room

If you follow us on facebook (you should!), you might have seen our big news on Monday that we signed a contract to have our laundry moved from the basement to the pantry, YAY! We have a VERY scary basement, which I guess makes sense for a house built in 1890, but...

Tips to Living on a Budget

Kerry decided to quit her job in October of 2013, which means we’ve been living over a year now just on one salary. Actually, Kerry had decided to quit a lot earlier than that, but she actually quit in October. Kerry giving up her income, and our decision to try...

Sometimes, I Am the Electrician

If you’ve been reading the blog, you know that this weekend we had a bit of a failure of a lighting situation in our pantry. I generally have no qualms taking on a lighting replacement but that pantry one was a little too far gone for me to fix up....

How We Design a Room

Happy Monday! What amazing weather for October, right? I thought it would be fun to talk today about how we come up with our plans for a room. We have friends who say they just don’t even know where to start when it comes to decorating or designing their houses, which is...

Our Complete Home Tour!

Over the last few months, we’ve been taking you on a tour of our house from room to room, and now we thought it would be fun to do a roundup of the whole thing. There were some rooms we didn’t specifically focus on during our home tour posts because...

It’s 2018!! Here’s This Year’s Home Reno To-Do List!

Hello! Long time no talk. Seriously, sooo long. HAPPY 2018! We had our last holiday parties of the year this past weekend, so we can finally start getting back into the swing of real life, which feels good. I kind of just want life to be routine again… or as...

Last-Minute Printable Valentine’s Card + Friday Links

Hey, you guys, Valentine’s Day is tomorrow! As much as I think this holiday is silly, I just love sending cards to my favorite girls, all elementary school style. I whipped up this little watercolor-inspired card, so if you need a last-minute card for yourself, I’ve attached the pdf here...

What’s making me happy today

It really does feel like we have a new house, now that our renovations are coming to an end — at least on the first floor. I was planning a different post for today, but when I walked into my kitchen this morning it made me so ridiculously happy, I...