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The Nursery, Part 2: Closet Storage System

What’s the number one must-have for babies this season? A tricked-out closet for all your new trendy clothes, that’s what. And if you’re thinking about being born early and your closet looks like this, you’re going to wait around a little longer until your parents have time to fix it up. That means your parents […]

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Weston’s First Week

It turns out that all the stuff they tell you is true. Like how you never knew you could love somebody so much, or that you can function on so little sleep, or that having a baby makes you fall in love even more with your spouse. Today is our little man’s seventh day of […]

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Baby is here!

Our little one has arrived! Stats: 7 lbs 8 oz, 19 1/2 inches long. Looks like his daddy! We had been planning for and praying for an all-natural birth with no medications for me or the baby, and it was even better than I dared to hope it would be! I feel SO blessed. Warning: […]

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Beginning the Nursery {It Never Did Become a Workout Room…}

Rewind a year and a half. We’re house-hunting when we stumble upon The One. It needs help, but has good bones. The master bedroom is huge, and just across the hall, there’s another bedroom. It is your standard box, plus a solid layer of nasty that matches the rest of the house. Terrified of pregnancy/labor/babies/change, […]

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Snow Day and 38 Weeks!

It is beautiful in Atlanta today. Yesterday, in a matter of minutes, we went from no snowfall to gorgeous, heavy flakes swirling down, covering the ground and sending most of the Southerners here scampering off in search of bread and milk to survive the “blizzard.” Andy and I woke up this morning just before sunrise […]

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After pics: The Kitchen (Longest Post in History Edition)

I hope you’re sitting in a comfortable chair. Because if you actually read this post, instead of just scrolling through and looking at the pictures – YES, I know you do that. Cheater. – you might be here a while. Bear with me! This was the hardest, most difficult room we renovated, of course! So […]

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This is not the “pregnancy glow” I was hoping for.

Let’s just put this out there: I am an awkward person. I collect embarrassing moments. Like the time I was walking up stairs in a big crowd, fell UP the stairs, spilling my things everywhere. Picked them up and regrouped. Took two more steps and tripped AGAIN. The sympathy glances and “are you okay?”s just […]

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After Pics: the Dining Room

If I had had the opportunity to invite you to dinner at our home about a year and a half ago, we probably would’ve enjoyed a classic peanut-butter-and-jelly while perched atop five-gallon drums of paint or sheetrock mud in our unfinished living room. If you still wanted to be friends after that experience and you […]

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After Pics: the Guest Room

Update: We’ve made some changes to this room which you can see here. Well, some might call it a guest room. My mother-in-law calls it her Georgia bedroom, and I love that. You might remember this room from our first “before” shots. What we knew at the time was that there were mysterious gross things […]

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A Bathroom Redo: Before and After

Let’s take a little journey back in time… to a time when first bought our house and you had to use THIS if you wanted to powder your nose downstairs: The brass fixtures were a little less gleaming now than I imagine they were back in their heyday. The cabinet door was broken and falling […]

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O Come O Come Emmanuel

Nine months is a long time to wait to meet someone. But now, on Christmas day, two months before my due date, I’m reminded of a wait much longer than this. The promise came early: just three chapters into Genesis, in the garden of Eden, God promises to send a Savior to save the world. […]

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30 Weeks!

I have a confession to make: I am an awful pregnant woman. There’s an unwritten law out there that you’re supposed to – no, required to – take at least weekly photos of your pregnancy as it progresses. It’s been ten weeks since we got the last belly pics! SHAMEFUL. This pregnancy is passing us […]

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Something about Christmas

There’s something I love about Christmas that I can’t quite put into words. Daylight fades early, nighttime settles in with a chill and you feel yourself drawn inside, toward home. There’s a coziness about how we all gravitate to our houses, close the door against the dark and the cold air, and nestle in. I […]

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My Favorite Distraction

It’s my favorite little secret, and it strikes at just the right moments. I’m sitting in a long meeting where the topic doesn’t apply to me, frantically trying to keep myself awake and entertained. I’ve tried reading emails on my Blackberry. I’ve checked Facebook and Twitter. I’ve counted the ceiling tiles and found the misspellings […]

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On Finishing

This is a season of finishing for Andy and me. This Friday, I will be completely finished with my current job. I’ll take the last year and a half of frequent travel and too much time away from home, tie it all up in a nice bow and give it its rightful place as a […]

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