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pickles!

Our neighbor has been growing veggies all summer and I have been excited to see how much his garden will produce. Well, the other day he came over with a 5 gallon bucket FULL of veggies for us! Since I only planted a tomato plant this summer I was thrilled to accept his neighborly gift. The main veggie in the bucket was cucumbers and although we love cucumbers-we don't eat them for every meal so I needed to figure out what we could do with them. I looked up a few recipes for pickles and kind of made my own concoction for the brine.
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barn door baby gate

Matt and I started this project earlier in the summer but got busy with other summertime fun. We knew Tucker would become mobile sometime this summer so we thought we would revisit the project when the time came. Well the time has come! Tucker started crawling about 2 weeks ago and we quickly realized we needed to get the gate completed. Matt did 99% of the work in making my vision come to life-he's the best.

First he started off with a plan.

Enlisted the help of an apprentice.

Learning about tools.

Taking it all in.

Measuring, making cuts, measuring again.

Once he was done with the brunt of the work I sanded the rough edges.

Painted the gate with a custom mix of white & gray paint.

Matt added a hook on the inside so little hands can't reach it.

We attached the gate to the existing door hinge. There was a door here but we took it off because we didn't like how it cut off the sunlight that comes in from the window at the top of the stairs.

It works!

My Busy Day

By T.L. Goff


People always think that being a baby is easy but my day is anything but. In fact, life here at my house is busy.

In order to gear up for my busy day, I started off with a wholesome breakfast with my brother Max.

Next, I folded some laundry

I thought I washed the green ones but I couldn't find them anywhere!

Then I took a nap

When dad got home from work he needed me to help him baby proof the house

I don't know who this baby is but he's not getting into these cabinets!

I played with some toys

Put in a hard workout

Cleaned up!

Started a new book that mom & dad recommended-I'm not sure why they liked it so much

My life is busy and can get hectic at times but I wouldn't change it for the world. Time for bed--gotta get to sleep so I can do it all over again. Hopefully tomorrow is not so busy!

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9 + 9

I have always had this thing about Tucker turning 9 months. I don't know why I think it is so amazing but I feel like he is a REAL person now, weird I know. He has been alive in the world for the same amount of time that he was alive in my belly. For a year and a half this little peanut has been blessing my life. I remember when I was pregnant and had morning sickness for 30 weeks, people would always tell me "it is so worth it, blah blah blah". Without already having a baby I didn't know the JOY that was coming, I really was thankful but all I could focus on was the sickness. Everyone would always ask me, "don't you just love being pregnant?!" I would respond with a chipper, "no". Not the answer most people were looking for but it was true. I would usually just smile and make a little joke about being sick because I didn't want to seem like I was complaining-that was reserved for close family and friends-you're welcome :) Thankfully, I had to leave my job when we moved from Florida to Minnesota. I was 20 weeks pregnant so I didn't have to work the second half of my pregnancy. I truly don't know how I would have survived working through the sickness. I made it to 39 weeks and baby was born, yippee! I have heard of a lot of women who have gone through the baby blues after they give birth, something I had always been nervous about, but I had a BURST of energy for about 3 weeks after the birth. I think it was all the pent up energy I had from sitting on the couch for 20 weeks :)I feel so proud that little Tucker has survived in the world for these 9 months, I wonder what I will feel at 9 years, ha!

9 weeks pregnant, morning sickness ruling my life. God was just knitting away!

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.Psalm 139:13

At 9 months Tuck can:
crawl!
waive bye bye
pull himself up on furniture
suck from a straw
shake his head no
say mamamamama when he is sad

While I was pregnant I would frequently tell Matt that I never want to be pregnant again. Well, now, 9 months later I would say-hopefully someday God willing, during my next pregnancy I won't have crippling morning sickness for 30 weeks. And to all you pregnant morning sick mammas-hang in there! It sucks and you have my sympathy :)

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