Design Mom Feature

It's been forever and a day since I've been here...I almost forgot how to log in. haha. Ack! 

I hope this finds you all well and if you're reading this, thank you for sticking with me! I didn't intend on being away so long but here we are. 

I got an email from Gabrielle over at Design Mom a few weeks ago to see if I would like to contribute to her Living With Kids feature and I couldn't pass it up. 

I shared pictures of our house these days and some thoughts on love and divorce, living in a rougher neighborhood, steering clear of blogging and social media, and of course, living and decorating with kids.

Go check it out! 

xo

Phoebe's big girl room

Happy happy New Year, friends! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We've been spending the last few weeks hunkering down together, soaking up the holidays and time with each other. The kids are back to school now and wheels are spinning trying to get back into the swing of things.

Sis got a big girl bed just after Christmas and a whole new sense of self along with it! Lots of shutting the door to be alone in her room...tucking everyone from babies to dada under her covers and tons of pretend sleeping (and not a whole lot of real sleeping). It's been funny and sweet to watch her take pride in a space for herself. Official big girl stuff around here!

phoebe and her room

sis is flitting around all over the house these days. we are officially crawling and cruising and bumbling into everything! it does my heart the most good to see her playing in her room alone...discovering new toys and hiding things under the rug and forever trying to eat dust bunnies from under the crib. 

 

and even though the room isn't all pulled together yet (frames need filled and walls need a bit more paint)...it feels pretty complete with her in it...

deck the halls

a quiet weekend at home...decorating the house and trying to keep phoebe from eating all the paper snow flakes.

hoping your weekend has been good to you!

xoxo

At home at ABM

happy monday, friends!

i'm over at A Beautiful Mess today sharing one of my favorite spots at home...go take a peek! and thanks again and again to elsie and the girls for having me!

tonight is max's first basketball practice with matt as his coach. matt had me go out and buy a whistle for him to wear around his neck...the whole thing makes me swoon. haha. after practice, bee and i have big plans of making donkey and elephant shaped cookies for election night tomorrow night. 

happy voting to all! and three cheers for the end of political ads on the tv!

xoxo

snips and snails and flea market finds

happy happy friday! 

it's been a busy week...and i've hit a new and funny stage of pregnancy that i like to call "weepy panic". my poor boys!  but i've found that a good cure all for the weepies is getting out of the house and hiding out in thrift stores.  i had much luck finding things this week!

as much fun as it's been planning a girl's room, i love finding little boy treasures for bub and his space.

old desk lamps, maps, books, stacks of old graph paper, and charlie harper match game cards (which came from anthropologie...but oh how my heart swoons for charlie harper)...lots of bright and happy new boy things to scatter around. 

i hope you all have the best kind of weekend!

max's first baseball game is tomorrow...i'm so thrilled for him (my little guy loves loves baseball!).

 

i wonder if he would be embarrassed if i brought a pennant with his name on it to wave around?

xoxo

peony paint

i parted ways with the peony wallpaper for the baby's room and matt and i decided to just do what we do and paint the pattern on the wall ourselves...making the peonies the size and color we really wanted! paint is certainly a lot less scary than wallpaper....

i don't know if anything could melt me faster then waking up in the middle of night to find matt sketching flowers on the wall for his baby girl's room...she's already one lucky gal to have him for sure!

so far i think the peony wall is going to be lovely...and i can't wait to start throwing some neutrals in the room and put a baby in that crib!

punch drunk

things are moving and shaking around here...house projects for days, sis is a 25 week along rutabaga, and my nesting has reached full effect!

the wallpaper for a wall in baby girl's room came in today and we've been sitting on the floor all morning long, that paper and i, just staring at each other.

the colors in person are so much darker and intense than the swatch online...and my pregnancy brain, the one that let me eat 12 cupcakes yesterday and forget max's name, has me terrified of making a decision. but one thing's for certain...i see punchy colors with this little lady! corals and reds and anything in between!

 and maybe some yellow...turquoise? definitely a little bit of grey....

who needs a cupcake?

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peony wallpaper- urban outfitters// girl with bow print- etsy// polka dot dress- old navy ( the most beautiful gift from naomi!)// coral dress- h&m

p.s. i'm over at with two cats today dishing on blogging and mothering and a few of my favorite things...

thank you, lauren, much and much for having me!

making a house a home

thank you again to cassie from the veda house for having our little home over this week.

here are a few more photos for you...(our bedroom and baby's room are still underway...or i guess the whole house is really..haha...but who wants to see an empty room, an unmade bed, and our dirty clothes all strewn about?) hopefully someday i'll have a full house tour to show!

a few of you asked for some house tips, and while i'm certainly not an expert, i do have a few keys to live by....

we don't live on the nicest street or in the best neighborhood. we're surrounded by double-wides and foreclosures and a crazy cat lady house...but that hasn't stopped us from seeing potential and beauty and a sense of humor in our home.  things are respected but nothing is too precious to dance or play toys on...and almost everything can be thrown in the wash or tossed out with minor heartache. things move, walls get painted and painted some more, dogs shed and hamsters roam and there are little boy toys on almost every shelf in every room. 

a house is personal...and making it yours, and his, and theirs, is so important to making it a home.

whether you're renting, have an apartment, or one room to call your own while living with your parents...you and your space deserve a little love and personality...a place to deep breathe in and inspire. 

 even if you are just passing through.

that's the idea anyway...tell that to our bedroom!

now to go and try to scrub the little boy crud off the playroom couch...

happy wednesday, friends!