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notice the LITTLE things august 13th

1. happy anniversary to sarah and tommy and katie and kyle! yay for shared wedding days. 2. pink shin guards on the cutest soccer player ever. 3. small groups. 4. watching E get a good hit in baseball. 5. a few hours where we have nothing to do and nowhere to be. 6. K singing ...
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notice the LITTLE things august 10th

LITTLE daily lists

1. happy birthday to one of my longest and dearest friends kelly. {and sending her a text this morning that said happy Ruth day instead of happy birthday. i am the worst at text typos!} 2. second days of school without all the newness and anxiety of first days. we talked a lot last year about ...
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notice the LITTLE things august 7th

LITTLE daily lists

1. folded blankets and straight pillows. 2. pinwheels. 3. fixing the toilet without a plumber {thanks to help from my neighbor kim and a new part that only cost $7.99}. 4. wearing the same outfit as yesterday because it was still out. 5. taking a break from laundry for the ...
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notice the LITTLE things august 6th

LITTLE daily lists

1. new bright running shoes {except i really just walk and because my feet grew again with this pregnancy!}. 2. having a super simple, low key girls night with K where all she wanted to do was play dollhouses and eat a cookie. the LITTLE things make her happy! 3. my parents watching the ...
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budget-friendly laundry room, day 31-35

love the space you're in

how do the property brothers renovate a whole kitchen in a week? really, what is their secret? maybe they don't have to wait on materials? or maybe its because they have a whole team? 35 days later, we are finally finished with our laundry room renovation. it might have taken longer than a week but ...
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notice the LITTLE things august 1st

LITTLE daily lists

1. thinking about what our laundry room used to look like as i walk through it now. renovation fun from the final days of our budget-friendly project here finally {and the big reveal with before and after pictures coming next week!). 2. refreshing our folders to get ready for the new school ...
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notice the LITTLE things july 30th

LITTLE daily lists

1. my amazing parents who watched the kiddos all weekend for our stay-cation. 2. going back to the place of our rehearsal dinner each year for our anniversary dinner. 3. doing whatever we want whenever we want without any logistics for the whole weekend! 4. dressing up. 5. holding ...
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notice the LITTLE things july 27th

LITTLE daily lists

1. happy birthday to my sweet friend mercy. 2. 4-year-old pinky promises. 3. getting my hair washed at the salon. 4. trying a new dinner. 5. finishing a work project. 6. making the bed first thing so that it is done. 7. K always being so excited to see me, even if i was only ...
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notice the LITTLE things july 25th

LITTLE daily lists

1. happy 9th anniversary to us. and also forgetting at first this morning that it was our anniversary and keven having to remind me by nodding to the flowers on the island! so much fun to look back on such an important day, remembering what i was doing at certain times and all the people who were ...
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a simple summer job chart that is actually working

parenting & family· simplifying home life

there is nothing fancy about this job chart. but it is working. i've told myself countless times, as i look into my kids' rooms with a deep sigh, that i need to make a job chart. maybe then things will get picked up around here. but then i think i need to go to the store and get a cute cork ...
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