I decided to make the kids some chore charts that would be re-usable and also blend with the decor (or lack thereof) in my home. I was the fortunate beneficiary of some old windows, so they inspired this project! The first thing that I did was borrow my sister's electric sander, and sanded all three windows to remove all the old chipped off paint. Once that was done, I painted just one … [Read more...]
I hate it when this happens. **Press play. Me: Hey Ben, I want you to hear this song, I LOVE it, it's meant a lot to me and really captures how I feel- Ben: (polite face) Me: (trying to squeeze all the set-up dialogue before the musician starts to sing) -right now on a deeply emotional basis. In fact, if I were to, say, have a theme song, this one would be it. It's seldom that I … [Read more...]
Starting today, we are implementing a new routine as well as some guidelines and THEMED DAYS! I am seriously so excited about this... However, I am a great visionary, with sometimes less than stellar results in the actual DOING. So, with that being said, I am giving you permission my sweet commentators (and just to clarify, all of our readers are sweet, but only the commentators are getting … [Read more...]
This last weekend in Chicago was my first time to a BlogHer conference. It blew my mind. That might seem to be overstating it, but I assure that is not the case. The fact is that I went with low expectations. I mean, there were thousands of people there- a huge expo, sessions and parties every night and having decided to go only a week or two prior to the conference, I knew that I'd be … [Read more...]
