{pretty, happy, funny, real} A little house update

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Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!

Come on in and see a little bit of our home!

The front door of our little Cape Cod-style house opens right into one big room, where we spend the majority of our time at home.

We set up our little oratory right there, so it’s just in the center of our home. I do love that we have such a central place for it.

My mom found the cabinet at an antiques mall near her house up in Massachusetts and brought it down when she came to help with Desmond’s birth.

I keep all our glasses, jars, and kids’ dishes in here, freeing up valuable real estate in the kitchen. (I’d prefer to have the plates and such in here, but they don’t fit, so glassware it is.) Freddie can reach his own dishes to set on the table, which he loves.

Down below I keep baby bibs, kitchen linens, and plastic ware–all things that can stand being rifled through or strewn about by rascally little children, not that my children are rascals or in fact anything but angels.

From the front door, turn right and you see the dining room table. This past winter I happened to mention to a friend that we were still using a card table in the dining room, having purged half of our furniture for our Houston move.

Well, I picked the right person to complain to, because she just happened to have a spare table taking up space in her house, her own husband having just made her a new one!

The living room is to the left from the entrance.

(Apparently now it’s trendy to have lots of white in your house. Lucky renters we are!)

My next big project is curtains. Curtains are so hard to commit to in any case (why so expensive, window treatments?), but especially for such a big, white area, where they’ll stand out so much… I’m having commitment issues.

My ongoing challenge is the front door itself. Keeping it clean and organized while also keeping the our things close at hand is a constant battle.

Our favorite part of living here, though, is the outside. When we want to get out, we just…walk out!

After getting shoes and hats, and maybe clothes and diapers, and grabbing a blanket for the baby to sit on, and gathering the trucks that need to come with us. Then we just walk out.

Not so pretty, but we’ll keep at it.

It’s all worth it to get to this big backyard, complete with a clothesline so low that, once it’s loaded up, the toddler can do his evening chores cleaning up after a windy day.