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By On 17 May ’11


someday, these snapshots will be “the good-ole days” and that makes me rather sad.

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First Harvest

By On 16 May ’11

Lots more almost ready! We had these with dinner tonight and they were delicious. Also, here are a few of Korben “protecting” the house.

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Rainy Day

By On 14 May ’11

Praise the Lord! We had a rainy day this week and for awhile there, I had flashbacks of the hailstorm 2 years ago, so I covered up the garden. It didn’t hail, thankfully.

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note to self: home improvement list

By On 3 Nov ’09

When we bought this house in April 2008, we only really considered the insides… it was the *only* house in our price range that met our proximity to David’s work and was in a non-repair-needed shape (it needed paint, but it didn’t need an additional $30K work put into it like the other houses in [...]

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homebodies

By On 16 Apr ’09

Yep. We’re homebodies. (This is *not* a complaint.) I’m lucky if I get out of the house more than once a week with the boys (not counting small group on Tuesday night) and I rarely take them shopping. So it’s no wonder that my house constantly looks like this:

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April and some random pictures

By On 7 Apr ’09

I have our meals planned through May 2nd, finally. I think the first Sunday of each month is unofficially my menu-planning day. Eventually, this will turn into once a month cooking but right now we simply do not have the freezer space for it. I made lasagna [...]

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One Little Swatch

By On 15 Nov ’08

I know it’s a little late in the game to be thinking about pulling together a nursery, especially when you consider that the “nursery” is a crap storage room right now. I don’t know how people actually put together anything coordinated … or that they actually USE the room for the baby in the first [...]

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We ♥ the chalkboard!

By On 5 Oct ’08

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Hard at work

By On 14 Jul ’08

David has been quite the handyman these days.  This house was a foreclosure and part of that meant that it came “as is” which meant we had a kitchen missing a drawer, a section of the fence outside down, a broken trash can (one of those big special ones from the city), no garage door [...]

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This Day

By On 12 Jul ’08

James uses the phrase, “this day” instead of “today.”  He also knows what Lowe’s is and always asks us when he sees either a Lowe’s store or a Lowe’s rental truck, “Are we going to Lowe’s this day?”

Today, we went.  He was happy to ride in their blue race car carts and help us [...]

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i ♥ wundermap!

By On 8 Jul ’08

Wundermap is simply awesome. It’s my new favorite way to check the weather.

As you can see, we just had some rain pass over us. We’re in the vicinity of the word “Leander” and I’m amazed that it’s in the mid-70′s outside where it’s still the mid 90′s just down the road [...]

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It's like springtime in June…

By On 25 Jun ’08

We have started emptying the boys’ bath water into buckets at night and then pouring the “greywater” on the mulch around the base of the trees and we are amazed at how about 5 gallons per night per tree is resulting in new growth all over both trees. I say trees, but they’re [...]

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