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VEGAN Roasted Potato and Cauliflower Soup
Fall is here and that means soup season! There is nothing like a warm bowl up soup to warm your bones on a chilly day, especially a big ole bowl of roasted potato and cauliflower soup! This soup is so savory and warming and comes together rather quickly! It is perfect for this cooler weather and I plan to make it weekly from now until spring 😉 I don’t usually write recipes (though this is my second in one week! What!), but this one turned out so good and I’ve had some asking for the recipe, so here it is! Even Madi wanted in on the potato soup action! Just…
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Energy Bites Recipe & a Mini Life Update!
Hey there friends! We are in full blown fall mode over here! Halloween candy munchin’, warm apple cider sippin’, pumpkin carving fun and cozy sweaters! Follow me on Instagram to see more of our fun fall activities! Before I share the energy bites recipe with you, I thought I would give you (very) mini update on our lives! Alex has his Kindergarten Halloween party tomorrow and he is VERY excited! He is sporting a spider costume found by yours truly at our local Goodwill for $6! Thankyouverymuch. Christian is being Thomas the Train (of course) which I also found at Goodwill for less than $5! He is pretty pumped…
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Another (& Final) Kitchen Light Update!
Y’all. We replaced out kitchen lights after 5 years of living with a 90s box light and a larger than normal dome light (that wasn’t even centered over our table. I know). It wasn’t pretty, but in all honesty, we just learned to ignore them. We tackled this project over the winter with the help of my ever-so-handy dad! We added two can lights, one over each, the sink and stove, a track light over the island and a rustic farmhouse style chandelier over the table (which is also new-ish!!). I’ll let the pictures do most of the talking here, but we went with the antique bronze fixtures to tie…
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You Don’t Need all of Those Toys – Playroom Clearout
So, the other day I sort of hinted that my kids don’t need much to have fun playing when I told you about our Pinterest tape city. So, today I’m going to dive a little deeper on what else we’ve done to minimize the amount of toys we have around. Sometimes, I feel like “The Mean Mom”. You know the one. The one with all the rules and restrictions. The one who aaaaalways tells her kids no. No, you don’t need that donut. No, you don’t need another Thomas train. No, you really don’t need ANYTHING. I, along with John, are trying to instill in the kids that they have…
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Don’t Build your Kids this Tape Road/City
Oh yeah. I did it. I built the “just tape up your floor” city/road/train track indoor activity for my children on the 5th day we were stuck inside because of gross weather. I taped up all over the playroom with my washi tape. I made roads and spots for buildings. The whole shebang. The boys and I built up skyscrapers and houses and even an airplane hanger. We set up Tidmouth Shed and used all of our train tracks making the COOLEST train track. Then, I left them to play. ((Let’s pretend my white dog doesn’t lay ALL OVER my black rug mmmkay?) Guys. Pretty much 15 minutes later my…
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Madison Corrine
So, it’s been a while??? I had to take a small tour of my blog dashboard to update and see what all had changed while I was on hiatus! Blogging has been the furthest thing on my mind since little Madi joined our family back in July last year. It has been a whirlwind since then. I feel like everything is simultaneously flying by and moving like a sloth. Cliche, right? Nonetheless, I’ve been trying to be more intentional about how I spend my time. Between having 3 kids (and 3 kids worth of laundry/dishes/basic tiny human demands), a sign business that seems to be taking off, trying to keep…
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Our Toy Clean-up Routine
You know those time when your playroom looks like a tornado just passed through? Don’t lie, I know you do. Mine looks like that pretty much every. single. day. This isn’t even the bad part… Some days I can control the mess, but most days I’m running around the house doing other stuff while they play independently (thank the Lord for siblings!) and things get a little bit out of hand. I’ll admit, we do not clean up our playroom every day. I don’t see the point if they are going to tear it apart again in the morning. However, if we have plans for the next day and I…
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Wood Monogram with Placemat {Boys’ Room Update!}
Hello! I’m back with another update on the boys’ room makeover! If you follow me on Instgram (here!), you saw that Christian and I ventured out to pick up the lumber to build their platform beds! While John gets that project underway, I’m working on building up pieces for their big wall above their beds! I scored the cute red star I showed you in my planning post from Hobby Lobby for under $12! The are obsessed and we read by its light every night before bed. #momwin I also made these adorable monograms to go above each of their beds! I scored these gray and white woven placemats from…
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Shabby Chic Girl’s Nursery Inspiration
Oh man. I am having WAY too much fun planning and decorating a girl’s nursery! I never thought in a million years I’d be one to go for pink and flowers, but here I am! A few of the projects on this board have already been completed and I’m loving it so far! I bought these curtains from Walmart for only $20 for the pair! I’m sure at some point, I will need blackout curtains in here, but for now I love these! My plan for the birdcage is to hang it in a corner. I have been on the search for an actually old one, but if I can’t…
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Shabby Chic Rag Banner
Another nursery project checked off the list! I am seriously loving all the pink and flowery goodness that I get to play around with! Anybody else never think they’d be so girly in their life until they had a daughter?? My original plan for this project idea was to make a mobile for over the crib, but then I decided I wanted a bird cage or gallery wall above the crib, so I went with a banner for the window instead! Remember this window? It is on its third life now! Originally part of the guest bedroom, which turned into Christian’s woodland nursery and now into a shabby chic girl…
