I love a sparkling clean home, and I have four children. Which means I'm a glutton for punishment, but more often means that I'm not ever satisfied with the way my house looks and feels. Oh well, right? I have, however, become much better at keeping my house mostly clean, because I will never have a *sparkling* clean home until I'm a millionaire...

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Okay, if we were millionaires, this renovation would have taken two months and I'd have done some things differently (all my furniture from chairish for starters), but we're not and this whole renovation cost us only $10,000 total, which is what we had budgeted so go us.  The number one way we saved $$ was in flooring. We put in real hardwood, natural...

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I'm pining for all things southern now that we've up and moved to the west* and I'm now dealing with dry winter weather and missing the green of my southern life (but I love Utah just as much, btw). I wrote this post a few months before leaving but never published, so here goes.... Most things don't keep my attention for more than...

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