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Friday Favorites {03.11.22}

Posted on by Lauren Lane

I’ve got my fingers crossed that this Saturday is our last super cold day of this season. I’m eager to get back outside with the boys and go on walks, go to the zoo, and all of those other fun activities we’ve missed this winter!

We had such a great week. It started off going back to in-person church for the first time in almost two years. Harrison was so pleased to be dressed up ”handsome,” and several kind ladies at church commented on his cute-ness, which sent him into the ultimate combination of shy-ness and admiration, and it’s ending with a little self-care for myself. I’m going to get a massage to start the weekend off right!

If I decorate for spring, it will surely come to stay. It was time to put away my ’winter’ decor, and refresh with faux stems, colorful accents, and a new spring doormat. I picked up this one from my local garden nursery, but there’s a similar one HERE.

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Sitting in the In Between

Posted on by Lauren Lane

I’ve sat down to write about our process for deciding what to do with our house at least four times. I end up paralyzed by the fact that we haven’t made a decision, and I find myself rightly or wrongly wondering, “what’s the point in sharing when you don’t even have the end result yet?” But the processing of what we want to do is hard. It feels like we’ve analyzed and re-analyzed, and then analyzed some more exploring every possibility, and nothing feels quite right. For two people making a big life decision, we both don’t like it when something doesn’t feel right. That gut feeling of “yes! This is it!” guides so much of our decision making. We’re still just waiting for direction of something feeling truly right.

And yet, we know we need to do something related to our house. So here’s some of the backstory…

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Bats in the Chimney

Posted on by Lauren Lane

At the end of 2021, after having lived in our house for seven years, we finally got our chimney repaired to usable, working condition. We spent hours and hours making a fire and sitting in front of it over winter break. The smell of the wood burning, the coziness of it all. It brought us so much joy over the past few weeks. And we’ll chalk this up to yet another thing in life that we wondered why we waited so long to fix.

How we came to finally repairing our chimney, though, is a comedy of missteps. It all started this past early summer when Nathan and I were sitting down to watch a TV show in our living room after putting the boys to bed.

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Our Winter Cozy Home

Posted on by Lauren Lane

As Christmas comes upon us, and the holidays come and go, I take comfort in the coziness of winter. When it comes to the weather dipping into the teens, there’s something reminiscent of childhood in coming into a nice warm home that feels super cozy. There are a few things that make our house extra cozy during those cold winter months:

-1- Ambient Lights

There are few things that make a house feel more cozy than the soft glow that comes from a side table lamp or twinkle lights on a Christmas tree. It just exudes cozy.

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