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Tonight we had our first official house guest. The guys are leaving at 4am tomorrow morning to leave for their ski trip, so David is spending the night so he doesn’t have to get up even early and endure his long drive in. I can’t imagine a better first guest to have. David is so […]

Today, Mom, Heather and I spent the day in Columbus. Our initial reason for the trip was to pick up the garage Elfa, but we got a lot more accomplished than that. I got several house items that we needed from Bed Bath and Beyond. Heather and I both got some great items from White House […]

For the most part, I pretty much consider the garage Nathan’s domain. Organization, on the other hand, is usually mine. So today I have to say I was more than excited to order the Elfa organization system for the garage. I know February doesn’t seem like the time to clean out and organize the garage, […]

I’ve decided I really need to start picking out some decorating items for the house. Since we actually already have furniture for it, I’ve decided to start with the mudroom. I figure whatever fabric I choose for the bench cushion will kind of be my kicking off point for the room, so it’s a pretty […]

The guy from CAS came today and hooked up the cable in the basement. He also went through and organized our whole cable box hookups. Before there were long wires running all kids of directions and it was split like 7 different times. Now, no signal is ever split more than one time, and all […]

We’ve been doing a lot of things around the house today. I’ve been cleaning. Nathan changed out both of the furnace filters. Etc. Nathan also hung the mirror that we had made for our master closet.   I love that having a full-length mirror available when you are getting ready. Where the mirror is, you […]