There’s a chance you saw this picture on my Instagram Stories this past Friday. So many of you freaked out, like what?!?!?!?!? 
Today I’m sharing our big news!
So, yes, we are moving! Yes, we are selling our house and moving into...
Branches: Michaels // Vase: Savers (originally from Pottery Barn) // Eggs: Joann Fabrics // Pink Plates: Target (similar here) // White Plates: Pottery Barn // Easter Baskets: Target (last year) // Napkins: Home Goods (very similar design on sale here) // Chairs: Classroom Essentials Online // Table: Second Hand (similar here) // Highchairs: Amazon // Bunny: Marshalls (very similar here) // Cake Stand: Walmart
I gave our table a little spring makeover with some giant spring branches. I found some as a Doorbuster Deal at Michaels on Sunday for 60% off and then put them into a giant vase I found at Savers and popped some spring eggs into it. I LOVE these giant branches… it makes the whole kitchen area feel special! For Easter morning I plan on having a simple little spread of my mom’s Lemon Bread and Blueberry Cakes and some quiche I’ll get from Whole Foods. We have church at 10am so I just want something easy because we know from personal experience that getting six of us out of the house on Sunday mornings is no easy feat.
I generally don’t spend much on the kids’ Easter baskets… probably $10-$12 apiece. I put art supplies, fun band-aids (my kids are OBSESSED with band-aids), scrunchies for Elle (can you believe they are back in style???) in the baskets which I got at Target last year.
We try to keep the whole meaning of Easter around Jesus and the resurrection while still having fun with Easter baskets and Easter egg hunts. If you are in our area and don’t have a church we’d love to have you come to ours. We are at Cornerstone Church in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA and the service it at 10am.
Have a great day!
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This small bathroom makeover I’ve been working on for the past month is officially done, and today I’m excited to share the finished project! I want to extend a huge thank you to Lowe’s Home Improvement for sponsoring this...
When we were first married people told us to get away for regular date nights once a week. We weren’t so great at doing it for the first year we had the twins but these past few months we’ve been a lot better at getting out even if it’s just for an hour date to grab a drink and some nachos at a restaurant in town. Last weekend AJ and I escaped for a night to the Hilton Boston-Woburn to experience their Romance Package. The trip was less than 24 hours but it was enough to feel refreshed. We stayed in one of the king rooms with a great walk in shower. Without a doubt my favorite part of the room was the shower… it’s design was so simple but it felt really luxurious too. Actually, the entire room’s design was really thoughtful. It was all based around the area’s past shoe and leather industries. The beds were fastened with something that looked like leather belts and every elevator had tips on how to keep your shoes in ship shape.
We had a reservation for dinner at 6pm but were able to push it off for 45 minutes so that we could each squeeze a run / walk in. I was in the gym by myself (AJ ran outside) and listened to my favorite podcast, the Happy Hour by Jamie Ivy. It felt great to get some good exercise before eating a dynamite dinner.
The hotel even had disposable headphones for people like me who forgot our own.
When we got back to the room we had some of the champagne that came with the package and some chocolate covered strawberries and quickly got ready for dinner at Matadora.
Dinner at Matadora was fantastic. We got a few tapas, including these olives, almonds, bread and cheese. This tuna tapas (middle) was incredible. The Rosemary Manchego Fries were so unique.
Breakfast the next morning was also superb and came with the Romance Package.
Our plan for the next morning was to walk through Market Street in Lynnfield. It’s 10 minutes away from the Hilton and it’s such a fun place to wander around. The architecture of the Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids are two of my favorites in the whole plaza with their quintessentially New England appeal.
Or if you want to get away with your kids for April vacation in a couple of weeks check out their Staycation Package… our kids would have loved their pool and breakfast with piles and piles of berries!
Many thanks to the Hilton Boston-Woburn for hosting us last weekend. All opinions in this post are my own!
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Spring! That refreshing but awkward period of time between when the ski season ends and the gardening season begins, and there’s really not a lot we can do to speed things along. Seedlings are already started indoors, the garden’s still covered with snow, so what better is there to do than craft? All day. Every day. Yay.
Searching for the perfect accessory for my daughter’s a new twirly dress, we accessorized a simple headband with handmade watercolor florals and made something that’s surprisingly adorable. Maybe you need something for Passover or Easter–or just need to satisfy a little girl who loves anything rainbow and floral–so try this instead of buying something new, and I think your kid will be really proud to sport their artwork around town.
Start by going all-out with the watercolor paints on a single sheet of paper. Any paper would do, but the watercolor stock has a nice weight to it and makes the headband a little more durable in the long run. Patterns, no patterns, it doesn’t really matter so much as you try to cover all of the white paper with some combination of pretty colors.
Trim flowers from this painted paper, as well as from solid colored sheets of paper. If your child wants to make their own flowers but maybe you’re being controlling about the shapes and sizes of the blooms, you can offer to sketch the shape of each flower in pencil on the backside of the paper. They can cut along those lines and everyone is happy. Cut out some leaves, too!
Use hot glue at this point to attach the flowers individually to the headband. Layer the paper a bit for extra volume. If your headband base is a fabric or coated material, the glue will adhere easily and be durable. It dries almost instantly and is set to wear!
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Here’s a civilized idea for getting away from civilization…or for hunkering down right in your own backyard. Escape off-grid (or not) with ...
