Children, Random Musings

Midlife Crisis or Midlife Awakening?

So, I bought a new car. It’s black, sporty, starts with a “B” and ends with a “W”. To say that I love it would be an understatement. I’m not a person that is really into cars or anything, but this has totally transformed me. After almost twenty years of driving a minivan, I feel like I’m a new person…

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Projects, Random Musings

Staying Motivated-Why Is It So Hard?

I love to start projects. It’s finishing them that I have a hard time with. Something that drives Ted crazy is when I start weeding the yard, because I’ll end up with tons of little weed piles all over the place and then he thinks that he’ll have to clean them all up (which is not true, I might add,…

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Projects

Why Do These Things Always Take Longer Than You Think?

I have to acknowledge that I often have a problem with finishing projects… I love to start them, but I usually get going and almost finish, but then I’m ready to start something else. Part of the problem with Koen’s room project is that I have to order certain things (blinds, rug) and I don’t want to order one thing…

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Projects, Stuff I Love

Paint and A New Bed!

I had hoped that the room wold be done by the end of January, but… Although, the hard part–painting–is done. I’ll add some pictures of the paint and the new bed, but it won’t be the “big reveal” quite yet. I really like the paint color–it’s “passive” by Sherwin Williams. I found the color in the PB Teen catalog The…

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Random Musings, Stuff I Love

What Good Shall I Do This Day?

I saw this sign at Best Made and it just spoke to me immediately. First of all, Best Made has some super cool things! I bought these for Leo and Koen and these for their new bathroom update (February’s project!). But it was the “What Good Shall I Do This Day?” that really resonated. I think the question can be…

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Projects

Project of the Month

I’ve decided that I’m going to do one home project per month this year and I will talk about it here! I’m not exactly sure what my projects are going to be yet, but I do have the first one planned–Koen’s room. It was one of the first rooms I painted after we remodeled in 2004 and it hasn’t been…

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Children, School

And that’s that…

Time marches on. I feel like I should be sad or something, but I’m so excited for her. Lots of parents were hugging and crying, but I’m just sitting there thinking of all the awesome things she’s going to get to do and all the new people she’s going to meet. I’m slightly jealous actually. Maybe it’d be different if…

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It’s my very first post!

Well, actually it’s my second… I started thinking about starting a blog about six months ago and I got an account and made my first entry (which wasn’t really about anything), but I don’t really remember what I even had going there. How does time move so quickly? I had my domain name picked out a long time ago. I…

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