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new spaces /new year: the living room

January 16, 2012 Art

Ah, the living room.  Once a place of no functional space now brightens my day.  This corner of our room (where our Christmas tree stood) has always baffled me.  Our large painting has always hung here, leaving little options for filling up the space around it: maybe a plant or a chair.  It has always [...]

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new spaces / new year: dinner helper

January 13, 2012 Creativity

It seems like all we do is prepare food, eat food, and clean up from eating food with a family of six.  Do you ever feel that way sometimes?  We recently started a chart of “dinner helpers” who are responsible for, well, helping with dinner.  Caroline, 6, and Johanna, 4, are the only two on [...]

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new spaces / new year: a baking station

January 12, 2012 Bake

We don’t buy bread.  And for that reason, I am supposed to be on top of things in terms of baking our daily bread, rolls, etc.  This is definitely a weakness lately– just ask my family.  They know those days well by eating crackers with their lunch.  I’m pretty tired of it, too.  You see, [...]

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new spaces / new year: kitchen

January 11, 2012 Create

Good morning.  I’d like you to meet my favorite new hues of my otherwise unexciting kitchen. These colorful jars have a place on my kitchen window sill, a place where glasses usually sit (Bobby’s glass forgets about its place at the water station often), random buttons and other tiny objects, my herbs, and the likes. [...]

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arriving at functional spaces

January 9, 2012 Create

For the past week I’ve been building up momentum to totally change up my house.  I don’t know if it is the hole where the Christmas tree was or the new year or lack of enthusiasm with my house (and lack of functionality) right now, but it has become the obsession of the weekend.  I’ve [...]

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with or without order

January 5, 2012 Family

While some are getting healthier and others are just getting sick, there has been some time to flop down on the couch for sticker books and weaving with the healthier girls.  Whether myself or my children, sickness always makes me flop down on the couch when I would otherwise be running around in my usual [...]

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solstice

December 23, 2011 Family

Ironically, yesterday was the beginning of winter and winter solstice and was relatively warm here.  Warm enough for play without coats and sandbox tarts.

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right now

December 21, 2011 Gather

Although the weather has turned chill you’d never know it by the way my Caroline and Johanna dress on most days.  Johanna is more determined than ever to play the Nutcracker more than any other Christmas music.  But we were already listening to the Nutcracker back in the summer. One remaining project remains for me [...]

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baking

December 20, 2011 Bake

I don’t know if there will ever come a day that we bake up cookies of different varieties to eat and give away.  I’ve always wanted to have a Christmas cookie baking day with my girls, and even planned it this year, but it is always the first thing to drop off the calendar.  Mostly [...]

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homemade giving: the homemaker’s set

December 13, 2011 Gather

I’m sitting here looking out at the frost outside my window, wondering how much sleep I really got last night.  With one child in our bed back and forth through the night, the other waking with bad dreams, and yet, another, totally awake and ready for the day at 5:30am, I’m guessing not much.  She [...]

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