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Design Dilemma – Decorating Around Sliding Glass Doors

Getting back into work mode after a holiday weekend is so tough isn’t it?!  On the mom front I’m in the homestretch of the school year, and the year-end festivities have been so fun yet... Read the full article... »

      

 

 

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Breakfast Nook

Sources:

Fireplace: Home Depot almost a decade ago (I like this one even better than ours) | Table: Second Hand (similar here and here) | Chairs: CTC Event Furniture | Blankets: Better Homes and Gardens at Walmart | Cake Stand: Better Homes and Gardens at Walmart | Glass Cake Dome: Pottery Barn 

I have been trying to get our kitchen area to be in a place that feels good and more us. Because the actual kitchen doesn’t feel like us I’ve been really trying to work on the spaces that surround it and create a space that will work with our future kitchen renovation. This breakfast nook feels so “me”. I love having a fireplace where we eat (that was the selling point for moving the dining room into the formal living room in this house). I love all the white and the weathered beachy finish to the chairs. Just picture the space with a dark hardwood floor, instead of a rug we’ve stained again and again, and white French doors leading out to a patio.

AJ and I have been brainstorming constantly about the kitchen and how we want to redo it. A few months ago we got a rough sketch of a new kitchen possibility by a kitchen designer and felt really  sad that there wasn’t seats at the island, or the ability to have seats at the island because of the layout. So we’ve been really trying to see the space in a new light and really utilize the whole kitchen area better. It’s a really large space but it’s the most awkward space and on two levels so we’ve had to be very creative to get what’s important to us.

Until the kitchen is redone we are working on making everything around it fit our style!

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Bar Cart & Easy Summer Cocktail

I finally figured out that little wall space between the end of the kitchen cabinets and the adjacent dining area.   I’ve always felt like this little space needed something but couldn’t... Read the full article... »

      

 

 

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Adoption Update

It’s been four months to the day that we brought Vera and Gray home from the hospital and it’s been a whirlwind of learning who they are and what this whole process is like. The process is moving fairly quickly for us and we already have an adoption worker assigned for the twins and a fairly major court date next month. The adoption worker told us last week that best case scenario it could be October or November for the adoption is finalized (if everything goes exactly according to the schedule, which he warned us it never does). He also said that the parents could appeal the decision at this trial next month and it could push our timeline back another year. Regardless, the babies will stay with us until an official decision is reached. It sounds like, from everything the attorneys and social workers tell us, that there is almost no chance of us losing the babies but we are also trying to be realistic and know that because nothing is official there is always a chance of things not going the way we hoped.

We would be so grateful for your prayers over the next month as the judge makes decisions. The other day I saw the babies’ birth mom with one of their older siblings and I felt this awful sadness; our potential joy at the news of this court date means her sadness. We were told that no adoption comes without loss and it’s totally true.  We are absolutely wild for these babies and they are already beautifully fitting into our family.

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Designing Out Loud – Update On My Home Office

Designing out loud is really the best way to describe how I’ve tackled the design of my home office. Rather than sharing a before and after and skimming over the details of the process,... Read the full article... »

      

 

 

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