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Author: Amber

  • We’re building a garden shed!  I’m so excited. That was always the plan for this space: And we’re finally doing it. I think I’ve mentioned that our garage is so small a mini cooper couldn’t fit in there. We have all manor of things in there, like strollers, bike trailers, tools, etc. This way Bj can have a proper little shop out there and all our yard things can be stored here. I’m going to have a potting area on one side, and behind a little hatch thing for the kids to pull toys out of.…

  • Good luck getting a three year old to tell you how in the world they got a yellow stain on the BACK of a tank top (usually only worn as an undershirt even!). It was hard enough to get her to tell me where she put my keys (under my desk in my knitting bag, “Isn’t that silly mama?”). So instead of trying to guess at every yellow thing the stain could be I decided just to cover it up. Love the Silhouette for stuff like this. “Hey this ones hard to see. Mama put another…

  • I didn’t think I’d make much a of a big post about my second birth experience, since I went into such great detail with my first (you can read it here, along with why we chose home birthing), but I’ve learned that there are lots of differences in birthing! At just a few days past my estimated due date I wasn’t thinking I would go into labor any time soon, and I was totally fine with that. I was having a good time knocking a ton of things off of my to do list, as was…

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