by jennifer | Oct 4, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
Okay I have a confession. I had no party, no school event, no nothin’ to actually make these for. But I did it anyway. Don’t you worry – they will get eaten. I pinned the inspiration photo from Workman Family last year. I was smitten. I’ve...
by jennifer | Oct 3, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
We moved a lot when I was younger. What I remember most is that right when we would move in I would have to set up my room immediately. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say I made my mom take me to pick out wallpaper (yes I’m that old) before...
by jennifer | Oct 2, 2012 | All Posts |
Oh beloved crock pot, I do love you so. I don’t use mine nearly enough simply because I haven’t found enough yummy gluten free recipes but when I stumbled across crock pot loaded baked potato soup on Pinterest I knew I hit the comfort food jackpot. So I...
by jennifer | Oct 1, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
Anyone else the teensiest bit excited that fall is here? My inspiration for this project came from this pumpkin man on countryhome.com that I pinned last year. Given that we had just moved and I was exhausted from pregnancy I felt lucky just to get the kids costumes...
by jennifer | Sep 29, 2012 | All Posts |
First and foremost, the awesome and crazy talented team over at Remodelaholic is featuring my post on Grace’s Hanging Loft Bed!! Justin and Cassity are an amazing husband and wife whose idea of a fun Saturday is ripping out a wall…now that’s my kind...
by jennifer | Sep 28, 2012 | All Posts |
Oh, its a real word. brinner (brin-ner) adj. breakfast eaten at the time in which you eat dinner. It’s BREAKFAST for DINNER people! I could tell you that I do it because my kids love it so much and I’m such a good Mom but this one is purely...
by jennifer | Sep 26, 2012 | All Posts |
by jennifer | Sep 25, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
I’ve written once or twice before on the topic of ‘perspective’. I think it’s because it plays such a crucial role in our lives right now. Without it we could SO EASILY wallow in all that makes life difficult for us. Jared’s losing his...
by jennifer | Sep 19, 2012 | All Posts |
by jennifer | Sep 18, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
You’ve heard it right? “It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God” Mark 10:25 It’s a loaded statement. Worthy of pondering. But I believe that what Jesus was trying to say...
by jennifer | Sep 12, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
We all have to deal with it. Whether it’s your co-worker in the cubicle next to you whose cell phone ring is named ‘cat fight’. Set to LOUD. And it rings all. day. long. The woman in the office across from yours whose perfume assaults your nose...
by jennifer | Sep 1, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
#1 Jared was laid off from his job about 7 weeks ago. It was a bit stunning and somewhat scary but it’s all good because… #2 Jared started a new company about 3 weeks ago. Anyone who saw Jared over the last year had to notice how stressed out he was, his...
by jennifer | Aug 28, 2012 | All Posts |
Wondering what to do with that giant basket of zucchini that your neighbor brought over? Or did your little experimental garden suddenly grow overnight like a Little Shop of Horrors remake? That’s what mine did – it’s taking over my fence and...
by jennifer | Aug 24, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
It was time. As I tucked Grace into her toddler bed one night and she stretched out I noticed that there was 2, maybe 3 inches left before she would touch top to bottom. My first thought was (obviously): What the??? When did you get so TALL? Stop growing already!!!...
by jennifer | Aug 21, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
When describing Retinitis Pigmentosa to people I have an easy, canned answer. I say that it’s a degenerative eye disease and how the first to go is night vision and peripheral vision. Then I say it’s like looking through a cone or having tunnel vision....
by jennifer | Jul 14, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
I love Peanut Butter. No, I mean I really, really love it. One might say I have a teensy weensy obsession with it. Apparently the addiction is contagious in my house. We put it in our oatmeal, sometimes in cereal (hey, don’t judge..you know you’re weird...
by jennifer | Jul 9, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
It was my birthday this past weekend. I will proudly, with no qualms tell you that I am now 31! And then ashamedly admit my lie and confess that I’m actually 36. Sigh. Moving on. My Mother in Law had the ‘big kids’ for the weekend so Jared and I,...
by jennifer | Jun 29, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
It’s one of those days. I’m tired. It makes me vulnerable and I swear Grace can sense it. She’s disobedient. Acts like she doesn’t hear a word I’m saying and when she finally responds she’s as flip as a full blown teenager. But...
by jennifer | Jun 19, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
I’m still an old fashioned ‘pinner’. In my spare time (chuckle) I tear pictures and recipes out of magazines and ‘paste’ them in a pretty little notebook. Recently I tore a page out of Real Simple that gave a bunch of yummy ideas of what...
by jennifer | Jun 13, 2012 | All Posts, Personal Journal |
The boy eats solids. Two nights ago we finally fed Luke his first solids and he ate like a champ! I don’t know why I doubted, perhaps because Jack had this reaction when we first started solids: He shuddered. He retched. He gagged, for pretty much the first...
