Every summer I have high hopes of blogging and doing home projects with all four boys around, and each summer I fail horribly. So this summer I wizened up and just decided not to worry about the blog or getting anything done on the house. If it happened, great, if not, that's fine too. And you know what? Nothing got done, and it was great.
Anyway, now that the kids are back in school (two in elementary school and two in mothers day out two mornings a week) I'm refreshed and excited to get …
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10 Tips for Hosting a Successful (and Stress-Free!) Party
*Thank you to Pine Mountain for sponsoring this post!*
This spring Adam and I decided that it was time to start using our home for entertaining. It's something we had always wanted to do, and once our house was safe and functional enough to invite people over we put our plan into motion. The goal was large monthly parties, every single month. That was six months ago now, and we have since successfully hosted six parties. Also? We've learned a lot. So here is my list of my top ten …
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How to DIY When You Have Kids
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that most of my readers enjoy DIY, and also that a lot of you have kids. And as you are probably are painfully aware, those two things don't always go together all that well. So here is a list of things that I do to make DIYing with kids possible. It isn't the kind of list that is full of brilliant tips and ideas that you never thought of, this is just me chatting about what Adam and I do personally. And just for reference, we have four sons ages 7, 5, 2 …
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Breezeway Makeover and Family Dinners: No Excuses Edition
For years now Adam and I have said we should start hosting big family dinners at our house once a month, and for years now we have come up with excuses not to. Either we were too busy, or the old house was too crowded, or the new house was too unfinished, or a variety of other things. We ran out of excuses after laying sod a few weeks ago though, and decided that Mothers Day weekend is going to be the start of a new tradition. Once a month, every month, we will have a giant potluck and hang out …
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2016 Year In Review
Alright y’all, here comes one heck of a post. I’ve been chipping away at it for months...it’s pretty much my masterpiece. Enjoy.
2016 was a great year. Adam and I worked on building our house, moved into it, sold our old house for more than we thought we would, had a baby, and generally lots of amazing things happened. That being said, it has been one of the hardest years of my life. Not hard a because things were bad, but hard because it was so crazy busy. Our year was packed full and most …
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Four Boys and a Man on a Mission
I figured that after a month of silence it was about time for an update on the baby and life in general, so here we go. Let’s start at the beginning...the day Abram was born.
I’m one of those women that is chronically overdue with babies and I expected nothing less with this one... I don’t think I even packed my hospital bag until after my due date. Anyway, when 41 weeks (a week overdue) rolled around with no signs of labor, Adam and I decided to go ahead and induce. So one Wednesday, …
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Baby #4 is here, and it’s a…
BOY!
Everyone, meet Abram.
Born 10/26/16
7 lbs 12 oz
20.5 inches
He is the sweetest, most snuggly little thing you will ever meet. I was planning to write a whole post about him and the birth, but the second I started typing three-quarters of my kids started crying, so I will be back at a later time to share more details. We are home from the hospital though and everyone is doing well, just busy adjusting to life with four boys six and under (which is no joke!). Anyway, here …
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Life and Pregnancy Update
Hey everyone! SO sorry I fell off the face of the earth right after dropping that pregnancy bomb, my computer died and has been in the repair shop. I tried to get it fixed through Apple, but they quoted me $500 to get it working again...which I just can't/won't do. Fortunately I found a local guy to get it working again for about $100...unfortunately it took me a month to get all this computer stuff figured out. But now everything is running smoothly again and I have my baby back. Oh how I …
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Boys + Bluebonnets = Four (obviously)
If you live in the Texas hill country, springtime bluebonnet pictures are a must. They’re practically a requirement to live here...I’ve heard rumors that if you don’t take at least one bluebonnet picture each year they kick you out of the state. Each spring for the 6-8 weeks the bluebonnets are out you can find cars pulled over on the side of the highway and the occupants are out taking pictures in the flowers. Family pictures, kid pictures, senior pictures, dog pictures, and pictures of …
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2015 Year in Review
(I started writing this post mid-December with the best intentions of getting it out the first week in January, but that obviously didn’t happen. Each time I sat down to collect pictures I got super distracted looking at old photos. I was even going to make a year in review video (I have so many videos!) but I eventually had to tell myself it was never going to happen. Anyway, here is a little bit about our 2015...)
2015 was quite the year for my family. It had wonderful parts, hard parts, and …
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The Flood
This last Memorial Day Texas was hit by devastating floods. It's hard to imagine now since it hasn't rained all summer and everything is crispy and dry, but there was water everywhere and it simply wouldn't stop coming. It's either feast or famine around here (though usually famine). My five-year old son has been telling everyone he meets (the librarian, cashiers, random people in the grocery store, etc) that they should "come to our house so you can see how brown the grass is". Ha.
Anyway, …
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An update on Judah and life with three kids
I think it's high time for a baby update. I can sense that y'all want one, I can feel everyone thinking "curtains, saloon doors, lampshades, whatever...show me the baby!" Okay, FINE. If y'all are going to force me to show pictures of my adorable new son, then I guess I will. Just don't expect me to like it.
Okay, let's just get all the gushing out of the way. I love him. He is the cutest, sweetest, snuggliest little thing you've ever seen. I want to just sit and hold him all day long and …
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Party of Five
Well, I think I've kept y'all waiting long enough. Who wants to hear about the new addition?
(insert drumroll)
It's a....
BOY!
Allow me to introduce my newest little man, Judah.
He arrived on Wednesday, March 18th at 11:27 am. Not by choice though, he had to be forced out.
Truth be told, if it was up to me I would have just waited it out. I mean, I was 42 weeks (two weeks overdue), he had to come soon on his own, right? I just feel like babies will come when they …
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We bought land!
Back in October I wrote a post about how we have been land hunting. Our current house was never intended to be our forever home, it was always a place we planned to live in for five or six years, fix up (and make all our DIY mistakes on, if that's possible), sell, and move on. We've owned this house for almost seven years now, and we are ready for the next adventure. So we've been searching for a piece of land for about a year, scouring realtor.com, walking properties on the weekends, and …
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Adam’s Accident + 36 Week Pregnancy Update
Have you ever heard the saying "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans"?
Well I had plans. I have about a month left till this baby is due and I've been trying to finish up the guest room, boy's room, and baby prep in the next month so that I can relax with my newborn and not have a big to-do list. I had two posts a week (a lot for me) planned until then, revealing both rooms and sharing tutorials for the things in them.
Then last week Adam had an accident. He was helping …
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Mexico, 23 week pregnancy update, and help with baby names
It's been a little quiet around here lately, but for good reason...Adam and I got back from a vacation earlier this week! We went to an all-inclusive resort in Mexico for five days, and it was amazing.
This summer when Adam graduated from the police academy and we celebrated out 10th anniversary, he told me he wanted to go on a vacation. I was like "that would be great"...which meant both "that would be great" and "it's never going to happen." But he actually managed to make it happen, sans …
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Three
I've been less than honest with y'all lately. I know, you thought you could trust me...but the truth is I've been keeping a secret. A big secret, one that has taken over my life for the last few months. It's time to let the cat out of the bag...
Pretty soon I'm going to be a mother of three!
(I know those aren't exactly tiny little baby booties, but it's all I had... since babies don't actually wear shoes. At least not mine).
I'm currently 14 weeks, due March 5th.
And just …
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Life Lately
A couple of years ago I wrote monthly "Ramblings" posts where I talked about things not related to DIY. I would just write about what happened that month...mostly it ended up revolving around my kids. You know, the kind of post readers either really look forward to or dreaded and skip over. Anyway, the last ramblings post I wrote was in October, and I've basically been an enigma shrouded in a mystery ever since. So let me update you on the last nine months here at Casa Domestic Imperfection (it …
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Bed Swapping, Hopping, and General Chaos and Destruction
It all started when we went on a cruise last October.
Adam and I have always slept on a queen mattress, I've never felt like we needed anything else. I've always thought a bigger mattresses was a waste of space, or for couples that don't like each other as much as Adam and I do. We often fall asleep cuddled up, and more room would just be out there, empty. But lets face the facts here... Adam snores. He snores like a freight train in a tornado during a thunderstorm. He also does this thing that …
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Christmas House Tour, Domestic Imperfection Style
Merry Christmas Eve! I'm sure everyone is busy preparing for tonight and tomorrow, but I thought I'd finally pop in with my house tour just in case anyone is online.
I don't know if y'all saw all the holiday house tours this month, but there are a ton of them. Evidently house tours at Christmas are a big thing in the DIY blog world. I have sifted through and looked at most of them, and I have to say...I'm impressed. Everyone's house looks amazing, festive, cozy, and beautiful. Picture perfect. …
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October Ramblings
Well, October finally happened...we've been waiting and planning for October for a while.
So what is this big event?
Adam quit his job. His completely steady, stress free, well-paying job. And at the moment, he doesn't have another one lined up.
Here's the story (the longish version).
Adam is an adventure guy. His favorite pastimes include riding motorcycles, spearfishing (like way out in the ocean), and shooting guns. He is very responsible when he does all his hobbies, but that's just the …
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