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We're coming up on our 9 year wedding anniversary this June, but it's been 10 years since I saw him standing there.
Across the room, with his back to the wall...one knee bent up, and the bottom of his sneaker planted up against the wall behind him.
He had his hat on backwards. I've always been a sucker for that. I...
Now that the sunroom is at a good stopping point (for the time being), we've decided to move on to a itty-bitty space that sits right next to it: our half bath.
As you can see in the first floor layout above, it's the only bathroom on the main floor of our (1728 sq. ft., 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath) house, and since it's...
We got to sit down with our (fantastic) social worker, Beth, (and her social-worker-in-training "shadow", Amaris) again today- and over a period of three hours, we completed step 3 (of 5) of our home study: our individual interviews. I went first, from 9:30-11:00, then Kevin interviewed from 11:00-12:30.
I...
Well, it took a couple of tries and some crazy, don't-try-this-at-home style scaffolding but my knight in shining "arm-ink" finally managed to replace the ceiling fan in the sunroom.
We worked out a trade with the folks at Shades of Light on their Wine Barrel Chandelier, and we had fun modifying it a little with...
It's Photography 102 launch day over at ShootFlyShoot.com!
Last March, the guys introduced Photography 101, and they've had such a blast connecting with folks through their site over the past year!
While Photography 101 was primarily about learning to shoot in manual mode, Photography 102 is about the things...
The following texts were exchanged between me and my neighbor/BFF on January 26th, at 8:52pm. My texts are green, hers are light gray:
Getting a sweet tooth craving late at night when you've already got your PJ's on and don't feel like going to the store: NOT GOOD.
Having a friend that will share brownie mix and...
This Old House magazine published a story about our old fireplace recently...
It's in their January/February 2013 issue, but I found my copy at Books-A-Million about a month ago, so I'm not sure if it's still on newsstands. (?)
I absolutely love the illustration on page 76...
...and I'm intrigued by...
Hi and welcome to another installment of Pick My Presto!
I went to randomly select another an email from my Pick My Presto inbox the other day and discovered that AOL had deleted all the messages that were previously in it. Zoinks!
I posted a quick shout-out about what happened on our Facebook page, and got an...
I love decorating with plates, and even though the ones in today's post gave us a little trouble at first, I'm really happy with how the whole collection (eventually) came together.
Let me start at the beginning. I thought I had them all laid out the way I liked them, so I attached Disc Hangers to the backs of them....
I'm big on little things when it comes to interior decorating. Choosing wall colors and arranging furniture is fun, but adding (he)art and accessories is my favorite part, and I'm so stinkin' smiley about the pillow nestled up against back right now!
The front is an old seed sack we dug out of a barn in Iowa a...
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the white shutters we got from our Facebook friend, Toney...
In that post, I mentioned that we were still trying to figure out what to replace the temporary paper shades on the upper half of our windows with. They're okay for now, but they're a pain in the booty to move up and...
My mom gave me an amaryllis for Christmas, and man is that thing doing some cool stuff this week! One day there's a bud, then BOOM, the next day there's an open blossom!
It's sitting on a little, old hamper in our sunroom right now and I love the way it makes me feel when I walk in there every day! (Thanks again,...
Our first home study interview was a telephone interview, and it went great! Today I wanted to blog about our second home study visit- which took place at our home. Something really cool happened a couple hours before it started the other day, so I wanted to make sure that I saved the memory here so that we'd never forget...
My Mr. wrote and recorded a song to our future 'Sweet P' (P is for Palmer!), and it's called Love Collides. It's an acoustic guitar-meets-piano style ballad. It's very tender, and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed the process of creating it!
Click the play button below to have a listen:
There's...
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Happy 'Home Study #1' Day!!!
We're SO excited to have our friend/social worker, Beth, coming over for a visit today! It feels like the first real big step in our "paper pregnancy", so we're feeling really blessed to be able to spend this time with her today.
We did some laundry yesterday,...
First of all, THANK YOU for holding me accountable this week. I could literally feel our arms e-linked together and your e-motivation made for great note-writing inspiration!
Secondly, I had so much fun with this project y'all. I mean, we have GOT to do this more often, for real! I ended up having a few different ideas...
I woke up thinking about my Word Of The Year, which made me wonder how you and your Word Of The Year were doing, and all of a sudden it hit me: We should have a "This Little Word Of Mine" link party this week!!
We threw one here last year, and man was it a pretty/powerful party!
(Thanks again to...
"This year there will be more attention to the fabrics against my skin, to the companion that is tea, and the miracle of the mug’s solidity in my hand. There will be surrender to everything that curves. -Tara Sophia Mohr"
I've been thinking a lot of the fresh start that comes along with each new year new second a...
We tweeted a few Instagram photos of us getting fingerprinted for our background checks last week...
We got them done at our local sheriff's office and I think I must have smiled the whole time we were there.
We (all four of us) also managed to figure out how to get our Adoption Timeline set up last night...
...so...
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