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even thinking of moving again i give you all permission to print out that post and staple it to my head yes staple it it will feel better then moving again are you going to paint furniture again do my boys have burping contest at our dinner table yes i actually sold 80 of our furniture with the plans to search craigslist and garage sales for old furniture to redo plus i do plan to start up my business again how is the blog going to different this time around well i am glad you asked this time around i will mix furniture decorating diy posts with personal posts after all this is my blog i can write what i want to write one reason i stopped blogging was because people only came to see pictures of redone furniture so one time when one of my boys almost cut off his thumb and had to get stitches only one person made a comment about my son everyone else had questions about furniture sigh so this time around i am changing that my focus will not be to drive more traffic and get more sponsers but to just tell what is going on in our house to start off with this new phase of the blog i will actually introduce my family with their real names gasp this is my husband matt aka mr genius this is conner wild man my scholarly second grader this is mason romeo my lover of life kindergartener and expert hand farter please note this is the only photo i could find of him where he isn t making a silly face this little guy has turned into quite the handful he also sports a brown front tooth and a pretty scar on his forehead don t let that angelic look fool you i know only see that look when he is talking to or about a little girl and this is me katie but you already knew that with the fam well it is good to see you again this time i hope we will not be strangers again posted by katie at 7 35 pm 55 comments sunday february 26 2012 half bath mirror frame yesterday i was scrolling through my pictures and i saw alot of pictures i took that i planned on writing a post about oopsy daisy so right now while i sit here and watch the oscars being awarded i will get some of the pictures together for you these pictures that i am about to show you all are over a year over due i know when it was because i finished this project right before we started potty training little romeo which also means that we have been diaper free in the household for over a year oh what a blessing diaper free can be almost as refreshing as debt free this time around i threw a potty party for little romeo where i decorated with yellow streamers and balloons gave romeo as much kool aid as his little heart desired and let him pick out which big boy underwear he wanted to wear yes people we go straight to big boy underoos in this house no pull ups not even at night i am crazy that way romeo was completely potty trained in half a day wild man being the stubborn first born that he is took 3 days but after all the festivities we sat romeo on the potty with toys that he loves around him waiting for him to do the deed for the first time here is wild man trying to explain to him how going on the big boy potty works then here is is playing on his mobi go waiting until he is an official big boy anyways i thought i took a before pictures of the bathroom but i just can t find one so here is how it started on my dining room table then i painted it must have been taking down my christmas decorations at the time here it is all glued up i also painted the cabinet again sorry no before picture i added silver hardware there wasn t any hardware before i don t think the cabinet was dusty i think it was just how the pictured turned out but then again it was a year ago i can t really remember if it was really dusty or not if you want a real step by step tutorial on how to frame your own boring mirror i made one a while back click here to see it posted by katie at 10 12 pm 31 comments friday february 24 2012 my black hutch here is a story about a hutch there once was a hutch on craigslist for 30 when my eyes laid upon its ad i had to have it the longer it stayed in my garage the more stuff accumulated on it and then it started to become a permanent fixture in the garage then it came time to move and i thought i would sell it so i spray painted it black put some black and white damask wallpaper in the back and painted the handles heirloom white then put it on craigslist i can t even remember how much i was asking for it any more but it didn t sell not even one inquiry which is extremely rare i had a bunch of neighbors comment on it but no bites then we found the new place where we were to lay our heads i saw a small kitchen and stressed over how much stuff we would be able to stuff into the kitchen and how i would be able to continue my addition to junk drawers did i mention i have a love for junk drawers i mean how can you not love a drawer to just throw things into it when it can make your counters look neat and clean then when we drove back to our old house and opened the garage door i saw my solution right in front of me ding ding ding so i took the hutch off of craigslist and got to keep it for myself here is it in our kitchen when we were registering for our dishes and such while mr genius and i were engaged instead of getting china we decided on plain white dishes because we are not very formal people and white goes with everything best thing we could have done we also have an everyday set that is colorful but it is in storage right now since we had to be limited in what we brought in while this piece was sitting in the garage it somehow got the paint rubbed off i think i set down a towel that had a little bit of paint remover on it and now look my fix if i am anything i am easy fixer that is today little romeo and i made a treat for our bible study group tonight super easy huge marshmellows white chocolate to dip in and then dip them into sprinkles easy peasy but the best part of this hutch is that i get to have not 1 not 2 but 3 junk drawers i know i know i know i need to organize my junk drawers but then they wouldn t be junk drawers they would be neat drawers so it kind of defeats the purpose then right anyways i really like this hutch it is supper easy to put our dishes away it allows me to save my counter space by putting items on it rather then leaving items out on the counter we also have room to put the boys cups and plates the great things is that it is down low so they can pick their own plates and cups and take them out of the dishwasher for me and put them away i love the detail on the top so there it is my hutch what do you think i am linking to these parties monday the diy showoff skip to my lou between naps on the porch tuesday tip junkie today s creative blog house of grace just a girl wednesday blue cricket designs domestically speaking someday crafts thursday house of hepworths shabby chic cottage friday miss mustard seeds my romantic home funky junk interiors shabby nes t finger prints on the fridge saturday tatortots and jello be different act normal sunday under the table and dreaming i heart naptime posted by katie at 3 59 pm 28 comments tuesday february 21 2012 life as a renter whoa where did the last 3 months go well let me tell you we have been busy i know a lot of you have been asking me how life is now and well i thought i should tell you i am not going to sugar coat it either moving to this apartment has been well a challenge to say the least at first we were really thinking holy moly did we make the right decision the first challenge was the boys sharing a room great googly moogly we went from the boys going to sleep with no problems at 8pm and waking up at about 6 30 7 while at the house to moving here and having a playmate in the bed next to them which caused them to not go to sleep til around 10 11 and waking up at 5 30 no one in this house was a happy camper during the day the lack of alone time was an issue for me being more on top of each other started stressing me out i was snappier with the boys and with mr genius but the snappiness could have a little to do with the lack of sleep too but the biggest problem since moving into this apartment is that we have been sick alot the first time i walked into this apartment the smell from the chemicals they put in the carpet literally took my breath away i quickly opened all the windows to try to air it out then bought lots and lots of baking soda to pull up the smell which did help but the chemicals were still in the carpet since moving in we have since found out that the previous tenants had 4 5 dogs so the chemicals was to cover up the smell yuck well i have told you all about how romeo had a horrible cough for over a year and nothing would get rid of it until i changed our cleaners to shaklee cleaners well lets just say the reaction to the chemicals in the carpet or whatever is in the apartment has been worse the just a cough mr genius has been the only one that hasn t gotten sick the boys and i have been very sick with upper respiratory infections so sick in fact that we have spent more in medical co pays in the past 3 months then we have spent in the past 2 years but it hasn t been all horrible the first little light at the end of the tunnel was when we got our first gas and electric bill combined they were 90 which is amazing to us considering that we were paying 4 times that a month in the house especially in the winter one of my real concerns about living in the apartment was the fact that we would not have a garage now that might not seem like a horrible thing to some of you but let me remind you what our driveway looked like at almost exactly a year ago being that we live in chicagoland where we get a lot of snow and then me being still not very accustomed to the snow it caused me some stress about not having a garage but miracle of all miracles just like the rest of the country we have had the best winter this southern girl could ever ask for i mean look it is february and we are not wearing gloves or hats and there isn t any snow on the ground this winter has been a true blessing also this apartment has really grown on us mr genius came home one day from work and said is it weird that i am starting to really like our little apartment i sat and thought about it for a second and said no i am really starting to like it too we feel like it is our little warm cave yes i do wish it had one more bedroom and updated appliances but we are really starting to enjoy it here on a side note we got a air purifier and have been using all our shaklee cleaners so far we haven t been sick for almost 3 weeks yippee we are crossing our fingers that we stay that way having a smaller place has its perks it takes me about 30 minutes to clean this entire place bathrooms and all not having a yard to worry about opens our weekends up we have been able to spend more time together as a family we really are enjoying that part i know there will be more trials and challenges that i plan on sharing along the way posted by katie at 8 59 pm 7 comments wednesday november 16 2011 the closing as we are getting more settled into our little apartment and we are getting closer to thanksgiving i thought i would use this time to tell you all how our closing went selling our house to downsize i am fully aware is not the norm in our culture everyone is pushed to want bigger and better selling our house and moving into an apartment doesn t mean that i do not want bigger and better too for instance i dream to have a kitchen like this or my own little craft room office that has every color in the rainbow both picture are from ede s house from life in grace blog what it does mean is that i want to have those things when i can pay for them out right so many people have left sweet and concerned comments and emails saying are you sure that you should be selling right now there might be a better way to get our of debt and other things that i would totally be saying a little over a year ago and no this is not the best market to sell in but i will say that god blessed us by selling our house so fast we are one of the very few non short sales that sold in our neighborhood or even our area in chicago i know is a lot worse then other areas right now with the housing market but i will be honest even when we got a contract on our house for almost our asking price and then the inspection when amazing all we had to do was clean the chimney did you read that all we had to do was clean the chimney but i also started doubting our decision when we drove to the office for our closing i was so sick to my stomach i was seriously doubting our decision i didn t want to leave our pretty house with all our great neighbors i work hard on that house and i had sooooo many more plans of what i could do with it but alas we were now stuck with selling the house so i told myself fine then i don t have to like the people taking my house from me i even told mr genius that if they say one bad thing about my house i am calling the whole thing off i am sure i said it with my bottom lip sticking out and my arms crossed and my feet stomping the floor just like a mature christ loving woman should be acting so we sat down at closing and the couple buying our house walked in and of course to my dismay they were nice people drat and the wife was holding an adorable 4 week of little girl double drat they walked in shook both our hands telling us how excited they are to be buying our house and how much they love all the things we have done to it talked in detail about how the colors were perfect and the trim work we did then i thought well they must be pretty ok if they compliment all the work i have done so i reluctantly talked to the wife in between signing all the papers we found out that there were moving here from the a suburb of washington dc they have a 3 year old that has the same birthday as my romeo by the end of it i felt like we were friends i was ok with handing over my house to them not happy about it but ok with it but my friends it gets better this next part showed me that god s hand was in every detail of this sale while we were waiting for the hud apparently that is the last thing you need to show that the sale is final i turned to the husband and asked what he did for a living he said that he sold telecommunication systems i half smiled and solemnly said aw that is what my dad sold then mr genius asked did you happen to know ted spottswood my dad the guys face turned white and his mouth dropped open he said uh yeah i worked very closely with him the last 5 years he was with us i knew him very well i was in shock you know my dad in a small almost little girl voice is all i could get out cuz i just broke down and cried the husband stood up and said the most wonderful things about my dad things i already knew about him but it is just refreshing to hear them from other people he then too started to cry and came over and gave me a hug his wife knew my dad s name due to the f...