February 23, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Yesterday, I showed you the King-Size Pottery Barn Stratton Bed Knock-Off that we built.Today, let me tell you more about the bedding. I know there aren’t as many layers of blankets or throw pillows as the Pottery Barn catalog boasts of. This is a very [...]
February 22, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! When I first posted our plans and inspiration for our Master Bedroom renovation, I showed you this bed, The Pottery Barn Stratton Bed, and shared that we intended to make our own. Usually, it is pictured with an uholstered headboard like this one (we decided [...]
January 10, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This Post Has Been Featured! -:- The Kids’ Room was the first bedroom we finished up as a part of our “Big Bedroom Swap Around” …kind of ironic since it was the one I was having the hardest time making decisions about. We actually finished and photographed it last September, [...]
April 23, 2011 in Mom 2 Mom
Alright, the promised week when I talk about our decision to bring our baby to bed with us… …and sex. Honestly, this wasn’t a major factor in our decision. In fact, it wasn’t a factor for us at all. But it seems to be a major consideration of those who [...]
April 16, 2011 in Mom 2 Mom
Last week, I discussed the contemporary concept represented by the term “self-soothing” and expounded upon why I have chosen not to make this word a part of my regular vocabulary (although there I went and said it…) In many ways, I feel that “sleep-training” can be kicked out of my [...]
April 9, 2011 in Mommy Musings
I have spent most of the past month sharing with you the safety concerns that come along with sleeping with our baby and what we have done to make this sleeping arrangement safe for our family. While safety was my biggest concern about co-sleeping…the thing I love most about it [...]
March 26, 2011 in Mom 2 Mom
We have been told that the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is increased when babies sleep in the same bed as their parents. Indeed, a sentence or two long warning against having infants sleep in their parent’s bed are found in several online lists about SIDS prevention: like [...]
March 19, 2011 in Mom 2 Mom
Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing details about our decision to bring our baby to bed with us. Last week, I shared that my biggest concern in making this decision revolved around the safety of my baby and several of the steps we have taken to make [...]
March 12, 2011 in Mom 2 Mom
A couple of weeks ago, I shared that the way we got our baby to sleep through the night was by bringing him to bed with us and then shared our story about how we came to make this important decision. Without a doubt the biggest concern I had about [...]
March 1, 2011 in Making our House a Home
We have no air-conditioning and my husband works the night shift. If you are wondering why those two seemingly unrelated facts have anything to do with our bedroom arrangement, let me explain. It gets hot upstairs in the summer. And my husband–who would probably choose to sleep in a refrigerator [...]
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