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Happy Things Friday: 27 September

September is almost behind us; typically that astonishes me but this September has felt pretty accurate at being twenty-seven days so far. There haven’t been high highs or low lows for me, but there…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Sep, 27, 2024
  • 33 Comments

Favourite Things: June – September

It has been a while! I find Favourite Things posts are getting harder to write because I re-use old favourites over and over and don’t tend to be very adventurous with branching out and…

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  • Favourite Things
  • Sep, 26, 2024
  • 36 Comments

Where Do You Keep That? (Part Two)

This is the first of (at least) two follow-up posts about where we keep various standard household items.

The first two categories were inspired by Engie.

SUNGLASSES

I am the only one who can always find their…

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  • Home, Minimalism, Organization
  • Sep, 25, 2024
  • 31 Comments

Are You Clean, Neat, Both, or Neither?

I’m not obsessive about neatness or cleanliness, but I definitely would tend toward neatness. I like everything to have a place and everything to be IN that place. But when it comes to cleaning,…

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  • Habits, Home, Minimalism, Organization, Personality Insights, Random
  • Sep, 23, 2024
  • 42 Comments

My Year of Shmita: August Update

I needed August. Honestly, it felt like the first true month of rest in 2024.

There were some great moments in July, but unexpected situations really took me by surprise (go figure!) and left me…

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  • Portugal, Sabbath, Travel, Year of Shmita
  • Sep, 22, 2024
  • 31 Comments

Happy Things Friday: 20 September

Well. That was quite a week, starting with our great big Back to School party on Friday. It was long (probably two hours longer than it should have been) and loud and chaotic, but…

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  • Happy Things Friday
  • Sep, 20, 2024
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Introducing the Newest Members of Our Family

Sorta.

Meet…Belle.

And Indy…

It has never felt natural or overly conversational to refer to my children by their initials. But I also wanted names that had some sort of tangential significance for our family without using…

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  • Blogging, Family, Parenting
  • Sep, 19, 2024
  • 32 Comments
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