My Baby Girl is 2!

Happy Birthday Molly To the girl with eyes that say everything – I love you! You’ve made our lives full of joy and laughter with a whole lot of hustle and bustle thrown in! I hope you are always as energetic and strong as you are at two years old. Check out Molly’s tea party [...]

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The Last Day of My Twenties

I’ll be 30 this weekend photo credit My Birthday I’d love to have some powerful words to express about the last 30 years or the next 30 years. But really, right now I’m trying to get my almost 2 year old out of her Dad’s night stand (which stores all sorts of man treasures like [...]

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Knit Blooms

Handmade Spring The only buds or blooms around here are found on Molly’s knit hat.

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A Happy St. Patrick’s Day Indeed

Dance Video and Baby Announcement The kids made a special St. Patrick’s Day dance move for their grandparents. It has an extra special surprise in the middle!

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Green Week :: Day 1

Green Week Salt and Chocolate blog writer, Mary Beth, has been doing a photographic essay or “noticing” project about the color GREEN called Green Week! Here I sit, a Minnesotan expecting yet another winter storm today, struggling to find spring-filled relief and inspiration. (cleaning, walking, decorating, shopping, cleaning – did I say that already?) I [...]

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morning:: noon :: night

Molly loves to play with her “guys” and “babies” (fisher price little people) in the doll house. Sample day at the local membership mega-mart. Molly struggles to stay awake to eat her chip crumb snack from the sample lady that thought salsa would be too spicy for her to eat. Ryan chilled in the freezer [...]

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morning :: noon :: night

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A Month Below Freezing

It’s a heatwave…a tropical heatwave! Just Kidding! If we make it to the weekend, without rising above 32 degrees F., Minnesota will have the fourth month on record, since the 1880s, to not have a single day above freezing. When the air is colder than cold, and the sun is brighter than bright, just upon [...]

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morning, noon and night

I am inspired by a photo series, morning, noon and night, produced by the blog, beauty that moves. I thought I’d give it a go… morning, noon and night truly,  just a blink

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Make Room for the Play Room

How to Make an Old Closet into a Play Room in 9 steps Note: I’ll spare you the real before photo of our pre-attic closet disaster,  and go straight for the cute photos of how to make room for the play room. I know, it hurts my before-and-after loving gene, not to have documentation of [...]

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