Writing this post feels a bit like the one in which I announced I was pregnant; I’m finally bringing something HUGE in our lives into the blogosphere. Our partial home renovation, referred to as the ‘house project,’ has been on our radar for at least six years, if not seven. (I know this because we’d been working with our architect for at least a year before I was pregnant.) So, not only has the house project ramped up in the last year, it’s simply been IN our lives for quite awhile, despite the radio silence. I just didn’t feel like I could say anything until it was ‘official,’ and that took much longer than anticipated.
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the homeschool room
Sometime earlier this year, I got the idea to turn our ‘office’ (AKA a dumping ground for pseudo-important papers) into a library/arts-and-crafts room. The dining room was bursting at the seams with scrap paper, markers and crayons, and no matter how tidy I tried to keep it, it always ended up looking messy. So, I decided it was high-time to fix the problem and started making a plan.
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Maelle and I joined Andrew on a work trip to DC in early October, and while we were there, Andrew and I ran the Army Ten-Miler!
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