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Darling little home, and darling little family!!!

Kids are biologically WIRED to enjoy sweet, sugary food. Breast milk is sweet, for pities sake. Did anyone hear this story on NPR the other day?:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/kids-sugar-cravings-might-be-biological

Let them enjoy it while they can enjoy it guiltlessly! With rich, whole cream and good flour and real sugar (packaged stuff is awful, but the homemade and good bakery stuff is heavenly). Love this cake, by the way. Good lord, it's gorgeous!

World Market had some really pretty ones this summer, and now they're on clearance on their website. We got a really pretty yellow and blue one that we used inside for a while and then moved outside (it was too big for our kitchen). I think we spent around 50.00 for it.

Goodness, that couch is such a find! And you can incorporate it into your design as you grow and graduate to different spaces.

Wow. Thank you for sharing this artist's world with us! What a unique vision she has.

Never had a problem with movers, but when we moved back to TN from AK the house we had lined up to rent turned out to be an infested, crumbling, inhabitable nightmare. Luckily we got out of the lease after just two nights of trying to make the place decent. The hair that broke the camels' back? coming into the kitchen at night to find at least 20 cockroaches skittering over the cabinets, fridge, and countertops that we'd just slaved away for those two days to get clean). Two Uhaul moves in two days, then another rental two weeks later when our new (clean) townhome was ready...it was seriously the worst move ever ever ever ever.

Patick, that's exactly what I was thinking!!!

I think like anything it can go either way, you know? I've stayed in chains that were dives and kitschy ones that were dives, and of course the opposite is true as well. There are several fun little places near me (I live near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park), and several that we've been wanting to try! Once we stayed in this awesome lodge in Townsend (before it got bought out and made fancy) where we made good friends with the concierge/clerk and got to drink coffee with one of the town policemen. Super cute!!

Oh, just beautiful! They remind me of the antique books at the Biltmore Estate. I'll never, ever fall out of love with books. Space be damned!

Everything, seriously, is beyond my limits. I've come to grips with it, and it's saved me a ton of money and time. Totally respect and admire those with DIY skills, though!