around here // recovery weekend

May 20, 2013

mail

plant

notecard

lunch

meal

M and me

book

David was out of town most of last week, arriving home late Thursday night. Friday night I already had plans with a friend to see The Great Gatsby (loved it btw), then Saturday morning I had to work for a few hours. By that time we were both exhausted, but it was all better when I arrived home after work and Meredith yelled “Mommy!” then ran to me with her arms open for a hug. She’s never done that before and after this weekend I feel like she’s at the pinnacle of cuteness and she cannot possibly get any better.

The rest of the weekend was devoted to family time and low key fun, once the chores were done. I got exciting mail (more on the Popsugar box tomorrow), hung up a plant, made a couple of cards, worked on Project Life, and wrote a note to a friend. Meredith will finally sit in a chair at the table on her own instead of in my lap (bittersweet) and two cushions does the trick. We had a lot of great family meals that way and I was so proud of myself for remembering I had just the right ingredients leftover for throwing together an alfredo sauce.

We wore our maxi dresses to church and then my parents watched Meredith while I went to book club. On my own right now I’m reading Happier at Home and taking notes so as to plan my own home happiness project starting this fall. Plenty of time to prepare.

Good stuff.

Comment »

Posted in: Around here

currently

May 17, 2013

Time // 5:30 a.m. Place // my desk at home. Eating // refrigerator oatmeal. Drinking // coffee. Watching // nothing at all lately. Reading // Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin. Wanting // to build up a stash of note cards and be more diligent about sending them for birthdays, anniversaries, and just for fun. Thinking // about how glad I am that David is home from his trip. Single parenting is exhausting! Creating // cards for Mother’s Day, a cross stitch about a quarter of the way finished that I’ve kind of stalled out on, and am ready to start sewing my quilt. Hoping // to make a trip to the garden center over the weekend and bring home a…
Continue Reading »

Posted in: Currently

obsessed with refrigerator oatmeal.

May 16, 2013

I feel kind of like an impostor posting something about food because everyone should know by now that I am not a foodie or a cook by any means. BUT maybe that gives me cred in a weird sort of way? Like, if this works for ME then it could easily work for you? Regardless, here goes. I used to be obsessed with cereal. I’d eat it for breakfast, dinner, snack, anytime I could get it. Then something happened when I got pregnant and I don’t like the feeling of that much milk on my stomach anymore. And I realized that cereal is basically just sugar; even the healthy kinds are not that healthy. In the hospital when I gave birth to Meredith I…
Continue Reading »

Posted in: Domestication, Things I Love

a woven wall hanging

May 14, 2013

Several of you have already given me great suggestions about what to do with the buffet area of our house, so thank you much for that! It is really getting me inspired to work on it. Today I want to share with you what I hung on the wall right next to that space, which is my handmade woven wall hanging. I got the idea for this from Rachel’s blog, fell in love with it, and decided it would be one of my vacation projects. I built a loom using scrap wood, nails, and string I found at my parents’ house. Then I gathered some different types of yarn and cording from the craft store and just dug in. It…
Continue Reading »

Posted in: Crafty

buffet, before

May 13, 2013

I am not sure what this space is actually called, but I call it the buffet. It’s a nice little storage and display area, but I just don’t know what to do with it. I’ve just been putting random stuff there without trying. Get a load of what it looked like when we moved in: So much wood, right? Way too much. It was suffocating. Already it’s a big improvement over that. Right now it’s a really sad space. I have actually moved things around since then but it doesn’t look a WHOLE lot better. This is the most central spot of the main part of the house so I like having the speakers there, but they are pretty ugly….
Continue Reading »

Posted in: Home

project life 2013 : weeks 16 – 17

May 10, 2013

Hey look, I’m somehow still caught up with Project Life! This spread is from April 15-28. These weeks were pretty normal ones around here. Week 16: We had dinner with David’s parents a couple times and Meredith had a blast going through family photos. She was teething and had a lot of trouble sleeping, so I was kind of a zombie for most of the week. I read a lot and finished Wild by Cheryl Strayed. We started a weekly experiment of visiting a new local pizza place each week to find our favorite. We visited my mom at her school’s garage sale and played at a local park. David and I went on a movie date to see Olympus…
Continue Reading »

Posted in: Crafty, Project Life