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Nursery Palette
I’ve about decided this is going to be the nursery palette. What do you think? I may stick with faint gray and white striped walls. Maybe I should paint the crib yellow?! And go with navy and white bedding? Hmmm. Ideas?
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Sister Visits!
One of the perks of moving to the west is that we’re a whole lot closer to family. Originally we thought we were going to be moving to Utah- minutes from Brigette and an hour from Sabina. Being so far from them was the hardest part of moving to Seattle. You can only imagine my…
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Organizing banter
Tom had the day off, and took Scotter for the afternoon/evening to a Star Trek convention he is attending with a friend from out of town. It’s been a LONG time since I had this much free time! I created a long list last night in preparation, mostly it entailed organizing our home. I’m eager…
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Brain dump
We knew subletting would be hard. Well, it is. It’s hard to not have a “place” for things. It’s hard to feel constantly on edge that your increasingly rebellious and active two year old is going to do irreversible damage to someone else’s furniture/hardwood floors/walls. I feel constantly confused, out of place, stressed, and uncomfortable.…
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Soaking up Cleveland
My emotions have been strange these past weeks. I tend to be quick to cry- be I happy, sad, or angry. I just have over-active tear ducts. That being said, they’ve been particularly refined these past weeks. I had my final student voice recital Friday- no tears. I cried my eyes out a few years…
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Purge?
Right now in the packing when 3/4 of our stuff is in boxes, I have this overwhelming desire to leave it all behind and start fresh. Can you have an estate sale before you die? Lot sale, anyone? Unfortunately, there’s no time to sell anything else. So I guess it’s coming with. I gotta say…
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Thank you, thank you, thank you
My girlfriend Claire told me about a book she read where the author says: “I have two prayers.” One of them was “Thank you, thank you, thank you.” I’ve been saying that over and over the past few days. There’s a swing on the front porch! A few nights ago we found housing in Seattle.…
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The final before and afters!
It’s sad, in a way, that right when we have our house as we like it, we are moving. But that was our intent when we bought it, so it feels as it ought. We set out to leave our mark on Cleveland in a positive and beautiful way. How crazy it is to think…
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We signed!
We put our house up for sale on March 16th. Eight Days later we got an offer. Two days after that we got a second offer. Yesterday we signed. It was a whirlwind of emotions. From the stress of keeping the house clean, to the anxiety of how to counter the first offer, to the…
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"New" Curtains
Before: After: I’ve been meaning to lengthen these cheap Lowe’s curtains forever, it just never rose to the top of the priority list. Now with our listing drawing near, I made time. To be completely honest the other reason I didn’t tackle these was because I wasn’t sure what to do, I didn’t want to…