Friday was Jason’s birthday and the kiddos were both very excited all that day. Friday is what we call a “home day” (Junah is a very routine oriented person, she’ll often ask at bedtime, “what day is it tomorrow?” with the response being either “preschool day”, “home day”, “Maggy Day” or “Grandpa Day“) so the [...]
Dollhouse Family for the Girl
In the week before Easter I had a terrible cold, the kind that should have had me flat out most of the time. But, being the week before a holiday, there was no way I could relax, there were handmade gifts to be completed! I pushed through and am so glad I did (although I [...]
Train Tracks
Trains and train tracks are big in our house right now. The first thing Ezra wants to do every morning is, “build a train track, Momma!” We have a giant bucket of wooden tracks that is usually upended in our livingroom with tracks and trains scattered everywhere. This boy loves his trains so much, and [...]
Quilter's Design Table Love
We live in a 920 square foot two-bedroom house. And since Junah moved into her own room three years ago, I've found maintaining a sewing space difficult. Until now. My wonderful parents gave me a fantastic sewing station for Christmas. It is the Sew Essentials Quilter's Design Table available from Joann's (on sale for $134 right [...]
Ezra's Dollhouse
It was back in the middle of October when I declared our plans for giving both kids dollhouses for Christmas. At that point we had ordered Junah's dollhouse and I set right to work painting the furniture for Ezra's. Oh, I am so glad I did that early painting, because very soon after sick season [...]
More Etsy Christmas Gifting
On Tuesday I shared the majority of our etsy Christmas gifting; all for the kidlets. We did find a few more things, as well. This year we are determined to start our Christmas planning before football season starts (so next summer!) which should give us more time to shop etsy (as we left it rather [...]
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