“Why doesn’t technology work!!!!!!!!” This is what I was screaming in my office a month ago, literally having a tantrum much like my 4-year old’s display of displeasure. Camp Wandewega was giving me a full-on panic attack. I texted The Boy, called his office phone, called our home phone, emailed, left multiple messages, telepathi[...]
Man, this little guy has my heart. It seems like yesterday I was holding his tiny body in my arms, spending my evenings rocking him to sleep. These days he pretends to be Spider-Man and fights Darth Vader in ominous battles filled with explosions and chase scenes. Today was one of his last days of preschool. He performed in the en[...]
Since Little Maus was born, I’ve been struggling with my weight…well, I’ve been struggling with it for almost the last 6 years really; let’s get real here. After baby number 1, I was really getting myself back in shape, but that all changed after this last pregnancy. Your body is just NOT the same. Arms, hips, butt, boobs…and b[...]
If you have been reading this blog, then you will remember a while back I posted some images of our living room … you know that room that has no TV and adults sip coffee and chat room? We have one of those rooms, but one will usually find me sipping coffee, sitting quietly in a chair only early Sunday mornings. The dude wakes me up whi[...]
After a bit of prodding, begging, pleading, and a little googling, The Boy built me a pipe shelf for my home office, and I have to say, it’s AWESOME! it took me quite a while to style it, but it is finally coming together. I love decorating the little spaces in our home almost as much as the large spaces, but sometimes find it difficul[...]
Every once in a while, I have a day where I enjoy retracing my steps…time traveling a bit. Lately, I’ve been thinking back to our honeymoon. Since my husband’s family could not fly to the States for the wedding, we traveled to them for the honeymoon. Most of our time was spent in a quiet farm town in Germany with Oma and Opa, but w[...]
I've been searching for 3 years for window treatments for the TV room and I think I might have finally found the perfect curtains. The front room's linen striped panels came from Serena & Lily. I love them but thought they might be too lightweight for the back room and I also wasn't so sure I wanted everything in the house to be so m[...]
I don't know about you, but when I see a vintage dip and dunk chemical photobooth I get giddy with excitement. I've always adored them but growing up in small-town USA, they were not plentiful. I vividly remember finding one on a class trip to Six Flags Great America and blowing every penny I had. Dragging classmate after classmate into[...]
A new house and blank slates can be exciting and overwhelming to a person who is not a professional interior designer such as me. When we first moved into our home three years ago, the entire house was every shade of pink: rose, salmon, fuchsia...it was ugly folks! In fact, we almost didn't look at it based on the way it showed online. T[...]