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  • Sleep. Or what ever the opposite of that is.

    I had a kid who didn’t sleep. Her name was Tuesday and I blogged about this “problem” a few times. Eventually at 38 months she started going to sleep on her own and sleeping in her own bed. A freaking miracle because I was pregnant and FREAKING OUT over having two kids that took hours to rock to sleep every time they woke up. (Bennet so cozy in our room in the hammock) So when Bennet came along I was super hopeful that she would be chill and drowsy and all those other words that really…

  • Thrifting: an average take

    Oh so you want to hear more about thrifting huh? (I’m basing this off the survey 92 of you filled out so far, if you haven’t yet here it is, I get 100 free responses so top me off! and thanks!). I will be dashing back and forth to the range to check on the apple pear sauce cooking while I chat with you about this. Hope things don’t get too dis-jointed. First let me say I have a lot of thrifting to catch up on (on the blog), but I hopefully WON’T be thrifting this…

  • Celebrating One!

    Oh sweet sweet Bennet! This was Bennet on her birthday, the best shot I could get (and you can tell I did a hack job to Photoshop out flip flops on the floor!). Since she doesn’t know when her birthday is we decided to do a low key dessert only party a few days later with a small group. I pretty much had nothing done an hour before the party except for ordering vegan cupcakes and making this hat, the important things, obviously! I used a load of fun ribbons from The Ribbon Jar. I have…

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