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Spring Cleaning Challenge {Giveaway}

It’s that time of year – birds singing, flowers blooming, snow melting (hopefully), and sun shining! The time of year we dust out our homes and open up the windows for some fresh, non-freezing air. I love this time of year. Spring is easily my favorite season (autumn is a close second).  You may call […]

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Choosing the Right Lighting

The end is near!  We finally closed on our house just before Christmas. It has made moving a bit of a nightmare, but the house is ours, and it is time to turn it into a home. Today I want to talk a little about lighting. Finding the right lights, creating the right mood with lights, […]

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Piano {Wordless Wednesday}

One thing I really miss having is a piano. While visiting my parents for Thanksgiving, I got to enjoy Mark’s music as he played almost daily on their beautiful piano.  As soon as we close on this house, and move in, I think our next big home purchase will be a piano. My fingers are […]

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We found a House

When we decided it was time for a change, and made the decision to sell our home of 1 year, it was hard. For me, it was extremely emotional. We had spent 6 years moving around, renting where we could find the cheapest prices, and we had finally decided to settle our family down, in […]

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Is this home? A Theme Song for the blog

Have I told you all about this house we’re living in? No? Well, I think I may have purposefully been avoiding it. See, when we first looked at this home, we loved it. It has a great layout, and lots of land. The problem was we looked at the home while it was still packed with […]

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Ec-o-nom-ics by Kersten L. Kelly {Book Review}

Ec-o-nom-ics: A simple twist on normalcy By Kersten L. Kelly   About the Book: Professional football players, corporate tobacco advertisers, volatile gasoline prices, and the Cold War all share an undetected commonality each is an intrinsic part of economics. Though not obvious to the naked eye, each entity shares a pattern with the others. This […]

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How to Prep Your Home for Sale

As we continue our search for a new job, we are also prepping the house for sale. Although we haven’t listed it on the market yet, we want it ready to go up as soon as we know where we’ll be moving. By having the home in top condition before listing it, we should be […]

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Making a House a Home: All about the Attitude

As my blog title states, I’m striving to turn our House into a Home. For me this means, it’s not just a dwelling, a roof over our heads and beds to sleep in (though I have recently taken up residency on the couch, darn pregnancy pains).  A home is a place full of love, laughter, […]

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We’re Moving!!!

I really had doubts that this would ever happen!  But it is!  We are moving into our first official home this week!  We’ve got lots to do, and not a lot of time, but I believe it will all go smoothly.  Here’s my checklist –  Tuesday – sign papers, officially close Wednesday – get keys […]

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Wordless Wednesday

Has our house hunting ended?  We sure hope so! link up your Wordless Wednesday at Dear Crissy

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