Cleaning Blog Posts

It’s been impossible to post the last few weeks while things were spinning a little bit more than usual. The entire family (both boys, me, my husband, my mom and dad and my 83 year old grandma who lives with them) got a violent stomach bug all at the same time. That’s usually enough to send things into a tizzy – but mother nature thought it would super funny to throw in a huge storm, 5 day power outage (have you ever thrown up in the dark with a toddler clinging to you?) and a basement that flooded not once, not twice but three times in the span of two days. Among many other things including a full bedroom set, I lost hundreds of childhood photos, piles of my prized elementary school stories, all of my craft supplies and sadly, my wedding dress – which was water damaged. Sigh.

The only silver lining of this whole thing is, as if to apologize, she brought SPRING (my favorite time of year) a little early to the east coast. Four 70 degree days in a row!

I ALMOST forgive her. ALMOST. Read more...