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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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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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Yes, I Found It! Stillness.

Yeah! Yes, Yes, So Wicked Awesome! I am doing the River Dance with a raise the roof (yes, I am that big of a dork) over here. I finally did it! What, you ask? Did I finally finish my bathroom before & after? No. Did I have paint my junk dresser and install new hardware? [...]

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Put Me in The Zoo

I know things, around the house and in my heart, are out of whack when I am too feisty with every one. When I feel: Too snowed in Too sick and tired of being sick and tried (I’ve got to beat this illness!) Too jumped on, called after, and whined to Too impatient. Try as [...]

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Muffin Tin Lunch – Snowman Version

Now you can “eat their head off and their butt-heads…” **I, Mom, have now interuppted this regularly scheduled program….No Potty Talk!** Enjoy!

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Priorities As Told Through Breakfast

I suppose New Years has become a symbol for change. Change of calendar, change of….well maybe, the calendar is the only change I can think of right now, but you know what I mean. Things like regrouping priorities, goal planning, and praying for peace and all of that. So here are some priorities for me [...]

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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

…at least that is what the song says, right? Summer, in all it’s sandy glory, is pretty wonderful too. Here are some wonderful things from this time of the year, in no particular order. 1. Felt snowflakes; I made a garland of white lights and a variety of gray snow flake ornaments for over the [...]

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Kitchen Reorder

Mommy’s Little Helpers Okay so the good thing about not reinstalling freshly painted kitchen cupboards? Time. Time to see and study all the shovings done for shove-sake in the inner depths of my kitchen cupboardry. Also time for Molla and Ry to bring digging in tuperware to a higher art form. This week as been [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving

Here are my little dumplings with their Daddy on Thanksgiving morning. Thank You God for such a blessing. We had a leisurely breakfast and played around on our living room “furniture”. Yes, cushions and blankets kept us pleasantly cozy and entertained! {note: in the upper right hand of the photo the kitchen cabinet doors are [...]

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