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Just spend some time on the garden web landscape forums. It's definitely worse.

I have 7 and 4 year old daughters and a 2 year old son. From the beginning we've treated everything as gender neutral, as pretty much everything is. They play with all manner of toys and wear whatever they want. The girls tend towards frilly pink stuff and my son often steals their clothes. My oldest prefers books and computers to toys, the 4 year old prefers dolls, and the youngest will play with anything.

Love the cabinets.

Working in an old yucky kitchen is so depressing. My current one and the one I lived in previously were way worse than the one pictured. Poo brown tile glue on the walls instead of a backsplash, plywood countertops, old stained vinyl flooring. I can't wait to reno. In the meantime, I take notes and pin photos.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine. It is so rude to not rsvp (even a maybe is better than nothing). I don't have a lot of money and I don't want to spend extra on people who have no intention of attending but are too lazy to rsvp.

I used to hold big Halloween bashes and would whittle my list down every year by not inviting those who didn't rsvp the previous year. It seriously drives me mental.

Unfinished rooms stress me out but most of the time I have to go slow due to finances. I also find it harder to pull a room together when I do it a little at a time.

My mom was an obsessive redecorator. She'd prioritize home decor over groceries. Who cares if the kids are starving, as long as there's new wallpaper!

Changes were too frequent to really target any specific colour or style. She'd repaint every couple of months whereas I'm just changing my colour scheme out after 10 years of blue and brown.

We do a not back to school camping trip here. We homeschool all year round and take breaks when we need them, still it's fun to do an yearly camping trip in September to mark the season.

We did a mario party back in 2010.

http://littlehomesteadinthevalley.blogspot.ca/2010/12/my-baby-turns-5.html

I planted 1000 strawberry plants this year and I can't wait for the first harvest. The only grocery store fruits I eat are bananas and watermelons. The rest are always hard and tasteless.

Did you add sugar and spices (from a pumpkin pie recipe) to it? I make pie from fresh pumpkins every year and it turns out great.