We are still moving along with our home renovation…new French doors just put in FOR THE WIN!! But I was thinking the other day about how there is SO MUCH MORE going on in my life than just the renovation and how I’m longing to SHARE IT! The stuff that’s going on is more of the spiritual realm stuff. Books I’m reading and podcasts I’m listening to that are helping me TAP IN TO WHO…

Life has been good and BUSY! Our Real Life Reno is moving right along.  The entire house has been framed in…meaning you can finally see where the rooms, hallways and staircases will be. The black French doors that go from the kitchen to our backyard were installed and WE LOVE THEM! Mark planted several trees that will bloom to give us some shade and privacy in the back. The next step is to level the…

Our 15-month-old seems very pleased with the house renovation so far! Henry and Daddy usually consult about the progress during their weekend morning coffee runs. Then Momma and Henry stop by in the afternoon to make sure everything is going smoothly! 🙂 The inside framing is complete. We have the walls, temporary staircases and rooms framed in on every floor. It’s exciting because we can finally start to see what the house is going to…

We filled up another dumpster! (And by we, I mean, Mark!) Mark and my dad spent the last couple weekends clearing out the remaining debris from inside the house we are renovating. This gorgeous house was built in the 1800s and (we think) was a funeral home or maybe a doctor’s office. It then became one family house…then was turned into two apartments…and then finally turned back into one house when we bought it from…

I get lots of questions about my fitness routine during and after my pregnancy…especially how I got back into shape after I had Henry. I’m totally fine with those questions, I even welcome them, because I can be pretty vain and I was VERY CONCERNED about gaining weight during pregnancy. There are women stronger and more evolved than I, but I’m one of those women who struggles with body image and places a good chunk…

I joke with my friends that I’m gonna be one of those National Geographic moms who breastfeeds their kid forever. Henry is almost 14 months and still nursing exclusively. (He also eats like a grown man and would’ve eaten his entire birthday cake if we let him!) There was a moment when I thought I should wean him because I didn’t want other people to think I was weird. Can I just tell you…I’M SO…

We love our cool little house, but we definitely designed it for adults with its exposed brick and hard wood floors, a concrete dining room table and floating stairs with sharp edges. I love our house even more with our 13-month-old in it even though we are constantly trying to make sure he doesn’t slip, fall or crack his head on a corner. Now, we are baby proofing to the max and Henry is helping….

I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions but I am going to try something this year. For 2018, we’re going to set an “intention” for our family. And this intention is going to be a guide post for how we live our life this year. I’ve been feeling an energy in my soul over the last few months and it’s saying “have no fear.” Do not let fear rule your life, make your decisions, influence…

You know Christmas is going to be great when Hank the Tank looks this good in his holiday pajamas!!! Sweet baby boy did not disappoint this Christmas…he woke up VERY HAPPY although he has no idea who Santa is and could have cared less that we bought him a Tickle Me Elmo. Henry’s Nana and Pap went all out with the gifts for him and cousins Lily and Caroline. Henry got like 20 new truck…

We made some BIG progress on the new house in the past several weeks! Yay! Mark and my super fantastic brother-in-law, Kevin, got on the roof and demo-ed the two dormers. Our plan is for that third floor to be two kids rooms with a bathroom, and so we wanted to double the size of the dormers to make that space bigger. Mark and Kevin got all the demolition done in about six hours and…