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Laundry Room Renovation
This space has served us well for the last 26 years…an old school ‘laundry room’ with bifold doors. For years it did exactly what it should have done…hid a whole bunch of junk AND served as the the goal for many an indoor soccer game. I once came home to a board on top of…
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Grieving
Two months ago, my mother-in-law died. Nineteen months before that, my father-in-law died. His death, while hard, was not entirely unexpected; hers was. It was too fast and too soon. I was blessed to help care for her in her final days. The first of those days…the ones where hospice was being brought in but…
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Spring Time
These weeks are blurring together and, in all honesty, I’m not sleeping all that well. In an effort to try and hold it all calmly together I find myself spending an awful lot of time pacing at night…or laying there staring into space. We’re on the countdown for Kid #1 being able to leave where…
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Monday, Monday
This morning I had every intention of sleeping in since it’s a beautiful day off of work – but nope, my body clock is set on waking when it’s barely light out because it has a major case of FOMO. (fear of missing out). I mean, what if I miss the trash truck rumbling by?…
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Hey There, New Year
Christmas 2021 has come and gone and I will most likely always refer back to it as the season with the very big feelings, and for now we’ll just leave it at that. But with the big feelings there were many beautiful moments…and that guy that I like so much and I embraced each and…
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Vacation Mode
We vacation well. Really well. We realize that there are trips where we need to see and do as much as possible and trips where we need to rest. To sit. To sleep. To move as little as possible. Hello, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico! This trip was one of those trips….the not moving kind of…
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Starting Again (Again)
In an effort to find things that are meaningful to write about, things that others might find interesting, I’ve found that I’ve lost my ‘voice’. I start writing only to get stuck because I can’t quite figure out what it is I should be saying. I’m not even sure if that makes much sense, but…
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A Life Well Lived
On Sunday, my father-in-law went to be with Jesus. Dad was one of the old school kind of men. He was a Marine and an engineer and quite the card player. For over 30 years, he and I were cribbage partners and quite frankly, there was no better team than us. (I’m kicking myself that…
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Tis The Season
The halls are decked and so is every other room in our little house on our little street. Lights, lights and more lights seems to be the theme and thankfully our neighbors are just as on board as I am about making our little houses shine bright for all to see. And yet…I want more.…
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An Autumnal Celebration
When we were in college, we lived in married student housing on campus of CU Boulder. (Go Buffs!) It would be so easy to focus on the hard parts of that time of our lives – having a baby (and then another) without health insurance, living off student loans, hot water radiators in our apartment…
Little House, Big Table
it all starts with an invitation
Little House, Big Table 