Parenting

Everything I’ve Been Baking Lately and Nine Thoughts

That title is a doozy, right? Like you probably read it and rolled your eyes a little? I roll my eyes at myself all the time. I’m always baking and thinking and oversharing. So here I am as usual!

Husband and wife at mini golf in Pittsburgh

Jimmy and I on our mini golf date I mentioned in this post. Can you guess who won?

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Weekending

How was your weekend? We had our weekly Friday night Bible study (check out the kielbasa butter bean recipe here 🙂) and Saturday was a busy day! Jimmy took Sadie to work with him in the morning and made some progress on the floors in the homeschool room. The room used to have carpet, but we ripped it up and are doing polished concrete floors (with a rug or play mat on top because… kids 👧👦).

Carpet to polished concrete flooring before and after

Before we started, the carpet was beat, stained, and just done. Once we ripped the carpeting up, we spent a ton of time getting the carpet glue off the ground. Jimmy and I had a “date night” last week where we spent a few hours laying down paint thinner and scraping the floor. Saturday was all abound grinding and smoothing the concrete. I think our next step is to polish and seal it. Then we can move on to fun things like painting and putting together furniture! (more…)