A month after our sweet Bridget was gone, I noticed our family wall didn’t have any photos of Oliver or Jasper. I also noticed our travel wall was missing photos from several great trips we’ve taken over the past few years (especially in 2019). Because it was still early in the new year, I still […]
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Easy Fancy Blanket
This was such a fun project – even better that it was fast to do! – with a WOW result. For your own pom-pom blanket, plan on using 1.5 yards of fleece (2 yards if you want a group snuggle size) and about twice as many yards of trim as yards of fleece. I saved […]
Bookshelf Quick Fix
I totally love our bookshelves – we’ve had them for over a decade. But after changing from carpet to hardwood, and moving the bookshelves to a new location, I noticed something strange. See it? The base of one bookshelf has plywood at the base! How did we miss this for so many years? Clearly I […]
Bringing Order to Bookshelf Chaos
Just like people have happy weights, I think our house has a happy number of books. No matter how many times I purge our (four) bookshelves, donating hard copies of books we now own electronically to the Friends of the Plano Public Library sale, I seem to have just as many books at home. This […]
November 2019 Wrap Up
How can November have come and gone so quickly??? Another election, another ballot cast. The DRC Half with Dallas Galloway is THE BEST way to kick off the end of Daylight Savings. Oliver made addressing Christmas cards a challenging experience. I finally had a chance to stop by and enjoy Plano’s Flags of Honor during […]
October 2019 Wrap Up
October was a crazy-busy month. I traveled three of the four weeks of the month, and somehow tried to fit life and work in the margins. Kicked off the month with a quick upgrade to the half bath cabinets. Much more modern than the bronze leaf pulls. I headed to Knoxville for The Uprising – […]
Hayley House Remodel 2019
It only took us 10 years, but we finally replaced our floors! The boys weren’t sure what to think – particularly when we moved all of the furniture into the “wrong rooms.” Goodbye horrible carpet. Goodbye broken ugly tile. Really. We’re not sad to see you go. It’s surprising how big the house looked without […]
Greeting Card Organization
I decided 2019 was the year to get my greeting card collection under control. Time to sort out the stacks of generic cards. Time to sort out the bought-for-this-person-because-it-was-perfect (then forgotten). Time to sort out the cards bought and never sent because life. I found the perfect solution in the form of a sturdy, 12-divider, […]
The Word for 2019 | Kindness
I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of American culture and how it trickles down to interpersonal relationships. We live in a tribal society of us vs them – and “those people” are usually the cause of our woes. The neighbor who does things we don’t like. The driver who doesn’t obey the traffic […]
2018 Word of the Year – How Did I Do?
Every December I select a word or phrase to be a focus for the upcoming year. In 2018, my word was “intent.” I had in mind an Ecclesiastes 3 year, where everything had a season and needed to stay balanced. I started working for the city in 2015 and, as is typical for me in […]