Turquoise and Orange Living Room

Lately, I’ve been dreaming of a peacock-colored couch, splashes of orange, and some hint of modernity in our living room. I threw together a little mood board with some of my ideas. The couch is the Blake sofa from West Elm in Lagoon. It’s a velvet couch (swoon), and I am obsessed. The loveseat is [...]

Making it work…always.

I think parenting and marriage can be very difficult things to balance. Both are wonderful, amazing, glues that hold your world together, and yet? Sometimes they butt heads, making the nights long and leaving you wondering just how to do it “all.” How do you spend a day comforting a sick baby and still embrace [...]

Side Table Do-Over

I’ve mentioned before that we inherited a big bedroom set full of lovely 1980s knotty pine furniture. And when I say “lovely” I really mean “fugly and dated.” Samesies. But really, we were totally grateful to not have to rush out and buy furniture we could afford when we first got married (aka, really cheap [...]

This about sums up our weekend…

Yup. That’s where we are right now. Poor guy has passed out face down in his bouncey the past couple days after partying all night long. Ear infection? Teething? I’m not sure. We have a doctor appointment tomorrow…hoping to get in today, but apparently, Sundays aren’t super appealing to doctors. Since he doesn’t have a [...]

The brothers.

Life is an adjustment. One big, constant, neverending adjustment. Just when I think I finally get it, things change, and I’m left scrambling to figure out our new schedule. Our new habits. Our new likes and dislikes and wishes and dreams and everything in between. I’m not complaining. Honestly. The constant change keeps me on [...]

What I’m loving this moment.

Let’s talk about dream house adornments again. What? You’re sick of hearing about my house? Surely you’re all just as excited as I am, right? Right?! Okay, so here we go: Lately, I have this really big obsession with Eames chairs. Created from the 1950s-1970s in a fiberglass, this chairs are absolutely awesome. They can [...]

Who do they belong to?

(The English minor in me wanted to write, “To whom do they belong?” but I thought it might be a bit overkill for a blog.) People always ask us who our babies look like. Some people will swear Sully looks JUST like his daddy. Others see a spitting image of myself in Arlo’s little face. [...]

Build.

I feel it is necessary to write the obligatory “New Years” post that spews words flowing with hope and excitement for the upcoming year. But everyone else has done that and done it well, so I’ll just talk to you about my word for this year. At first, it was going to be “Save.” Because, [...]

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