My front entryway closet has been an unorganized eyesore since we moved to our house about 18 months ago. It just wasn’t an area I prioritized organizing. Then we got a dog and things really got out of hand because she’s got a thing for shoes so everything had to go up really high and
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Front Entryway Makeover, Part I
The front entry to my house looks like this: There is a closet on the left. It had bifold doors on it when we moved here, but they kept coming out of the track. And when the closet doors weren’t closed, they prevented you from opening the front door from the outside. So I took
Not Your Average Mom’s VIPs!
The first year of divorce was absolutely the most challenging year of my life. It was also the most rewarding. I’m not gonna lie. I spent the first fifteen months after we finalized the divorce treading water and making very little – if any – forward progress in most areas of my life. It’s only recently
Hang in there, Mama Bear.
I live in suburban Connecticut where bear sightings are fairly common. Friends would post their backyard bear pics and I’d be so jealous. WHEN THE HECK AM I GOING TO SEE MY FIRST BEAR??? I’d think to myself every time. And then, my first bear sighting finally arrived almost 2 years ago to the day.
That Time I Lost My Dog (And What To Do If You Lose Yours)
If you’ve been around a while you know we got a dog back in September. She was a rescue from Texas (we live in Connecticut), and she was from a litter of eleven puppies called the Avenger litter. She was named Storm, and we kept her name and Storm eventually morphed into Stormie. Here’s the
The Dancing Lady
There is a road in town I drive back and forth on like five times a day. It’s a pretty well-traveled road for lots of people in town. There’s a bridge on this road, and there’s been construction work on the bridge for the last week or so. The bridge is basically cut down to