Baby Listy Updated

For those who are interested, I updated our list of baby needs/wants:
Baby Listy

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Pictures Coming Soon. Ish.

I have so many pictures that I want to post that I will probably picture blog for weeks and weeks.
I’m working on getting all of my pictures downloaded to SmugMug. Then, between that and our backup external hard drive, I will feel comfortable enough to delete the pictures on my desktop hard drive to make [...]

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Chicken Tractor Pics

Materials Used:

Scrap and new lumber (6 – 2″x4″x8’s, 3 – 2″x2″x8’s, assorted scraps from the garage)
Various lengths of galvanized deck screws, staples and staple gun, nails occasionally
Scrap OSB
New plywood (2 sheets, 4′x8′)
1/2″ hardware cloth and galvanized wire
$4.50/gallon “oops” paint from Lowes

Total Cost: approximately $80
Jason and I designed this together after looking at dozens of pictures [...]

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Merry Christmas!

Celebrations are in full swing here. Baby Jesus has been born and placed in his manger, both on the advent calendar and in the nativity scene. Gifts have been opened and are now being enjoyed. Meal preparations are humming along.
As we savor the celebration of Christ’s birth, we also have good news to share about [...]

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Spicy Red Pork and Bean Chili

I made this recipe for Maya & Asher’s joint birthday bash last Saturday. Well, sort of. I changed so much that I don’t think it’s the same recipe anymore. But it was certainly inspired by that one, so it deserved some linkage.
It was rockin’ awesome, and disappeared pretty quickly. I don’t normally cook pork, but [...]

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We’re In!

The kids and I moved into the house with Jason yesterday. After three weeks of camping (two sleeping on the ground!), J was ready to sleep on our natural latex mattress. After four weeks of having sole responsibility of the children and two weeks of living without my husband, I was ready to have us [...]

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Flooring Photos Up!

Our home renovation set on Flickr has some more pictures up, sprinkled throughout. Mostly showing the unfinished floors and fireplace. Enjoy!

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house siding

Do you think I can make this:

Look like this?

*sigh*
I love cottages.
I especially love red ones. And yellow ones.
I do not, however, love the look of 1978 split entry houses with white brick columns and blue painted, woodpecker-holed, carpenter ant-infested plywood siding.
I’m so grateful to God for the beautiful land and serviceable house. But said house [...]

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asher’s flappy arm

My first video post!
So, Asher has always loved his bouncy seat. From early on, he learned how to pump his left arm (always his left!) up and down to get himself to rhythmically bounce to his heart’s content. I didn’t believe he was intentionally pumping at first (two to three months [...]

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I’m back!

Boy, did I miss blogging! It was tough. I didn’t do perfectly on my internet and email fast, but I did okay. I ended up checking email daily, because as it turns out, it’s hard to live in today’s world without email…life went on, without me, and I was missing important stuff. So I gave [...]

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