T H E L A S T M O V I N G D A Y

God willing, that is.

We spent the first half of today at the mercy of a 26-foot box truck:

loaded up! 

on the roaaaad again... 

I cannot express the appreciation I have today especially for good friends: Mike, Andrew & Jessica, ya'll are life savers. This would have been a very different day if the three of you hadn't made an appearance and donated your time, brute strength and encouragement. Haha.

At the new house, the boys took to unloading the big stuff, while Jessica and I committed to building furniture. This wouldn't have been a priority, except that Rob's parents were due in town in the evening and otherwise would've been shacked up on the couch... which... no. So bed-building it was! Ikea certainly doesn't operate on any shortage of screws, bolts, washers, nails and HOLES DRILLED THE WRONG SIZE.. haha. The hammer ran a marathon today, but we made it happen. 

go go ikea go!

The frame was built and the mattresses were laid. The guys showed up at the last minute before the mattress pads and bedding were added, to test it out:

exhausted movers approved.

mattress topped! 

It was nothing more than a blink it seemed between the time that Andrew, Jessica and Mike left, and Rob's parents arrived. When they did, this little blur came tumbling out of the car. Meet the newest addition to his dad's house: Duke the pomsky! 

duke

stop it, ya cutie.. 

I'm obsessed. Seriously. This dog is so freakin' adorable, it's disgusting. 

dog selfies. dogfies. 

^ I mean... c'mon. Look at this guy! I'm excited to head back to Illinois in a couple months or so to visit and see how much he's grown. 

In the meantime, we've just inhaled dinner out of styrofoam boxes with plastic utensils, because the dishers and real flatware are hiding in some unmarked box somewhere in this place still. That's all part of the adventure though, right? Hah. 

We're all spent. See ya in the mornin!

xo | cmd

Car Hoarding: Friday Edition

My life, currently.. moving:

another day, another car slammed to the ground with stuff.. haha

I promise this isn't my life, year round. It's not even my life daily.. I swear!
For now though, this is my car - stuffed to the gills with random everything; I really do feel like there's a cat or two hiding somewhere in here, likely having materialized by the amount of clutter. There's probably a quilt back there crocheting itself, too, because that's the path I feel like I'm taking when I get into my car and it looks like this.

okay, not a quilt... but a comforter. even better. 

TGIF. Moving. Tomorrow is the big move, with the big truck.
This is almost over :).
Rinse & repeat: This is almost over.

Happy Weekend! ♥

xo | cmd

Helpy Helperton...

MORE MOVING TALES! I'm ready to be moved, but again, I need to breathe and realize that this is a process. We're fortunate that we've got the entire month of March to get this place cleared out, but in the same light, it's almost hindered us because Rob and I are both creatures of execution in the midnight hour. #procrastination!

I hopped in the car this morning, having planned for at least one thing today, and realized that my poor Subie loaded to the brim with things to drop off after work.. make me look like a bonafide hoarder. Ya know, like the type of lady who probably has closets full of macromet samples and several cats that have ruined her carpets over the years. Like Maxine, but with felines.

does it not look like i do arts & crafts and general hoarding?!

This makes me nuts. My car is not generally a collection bin for everything I own. I promise. It's usually not even that disorganized, save for whatever's strewn across the backseat by the time Sydni's done with it. But for now, and for the next week or two I'm sure, it will look like this in my car for a large portion of the day.

Luckily for me, I have a super helpful sidekick [except who are we kidding, really I'm her sidekick, honestly...] who was happy to do a test run on the durability of bamboo flooring:


She's something, I'll give her that.. haha. I'm happy that she's at least a blend of interest - she's one of those kids that's either completely consumed with [and over-dramatically deprived, oooobviously without] being attached to some form of technology, or she's completely happy with random things, sans electronics all together. 
This was her approval of the living room.. haha. 
And it continues. Ya just gotta love moving. 
xo | cmd

DOLLA STOOOORE [Ft. Liza Koshy]

Ya'll, I'm overwhelmed, kindasortalotta.

Here we are moving, and all I can think about is all the stuff we need/want/will probably acquire for the new house, and not one speck of interest in packing anything in our current house. It's daunting, really. I've moved my fair share of times, but every single stinkin' time I get distracted by all those little items that eventually get thrown in a box at the last minute because by that point I'm just with packing and I don't care how it moves as long as it moves. *inhale; I know that was a horribly-extended sentence... *exhale.

Let me pause for a second here, to ask a very random, poll-esque question:

How many of you know or have watched the videos by Liza Koshy?
No? Well, that's the wrong answer. Yes, is what you should've said. If you haven't, here she is, outlining my life at the moment, as it relates to the Dollar Store.

^Oh, and because somewhere out there is someone who's going to say something or other about me claiming this as intellectual material, something sermthern sermtherrrrn.... let's just not. I didn't make these videos nor do I own them, or Liza, or anything in between. Mmmkay? 

Just enjoy, for a moment:

"A DOLLA?!"

^ That was me, this afternoon as I traipsed through the dollar store today.

Note the sign: EVERYTHING'S $1. These little glass jars are barn wedding material... just sayin'.... 

Believe it or not, I came here looking for pool noodles. You thank Pinterest for this one, and for all of the pictures that look like THIS: 

these aren't mine, but look how tall and organized! 

Organizational hacks are phenomenal. Stay tuned for the day I pull this off; I'll be back with photographic evidence and hopefully without any slice marks from cutting up pool noodles :). 

But I digress. The dollar store didn't have pool noodles [sad face], but they had just about everything else under the sun, and just like Liza says, enough squeaky-wheeled carts and Chinese plastic to go around.... BUT, it's all $1 so who cares?!

Rob will be the first to tell you that I need to slow my roll and get the stuff we already have... packed. I will admit this is a generally overwhelming process, this whole moving thing. If there's an appropriate time to reiterate one of the points Pastor Jeff made this morning, it's now: 

slow down, cori.. there's a bigger picture. 

Phew. 

The new week starts tomorrow, and all that inevitably will come with it. Moving is underway, folks! 

xo | cmd

♥ Hello, February ♥

Ah, February.... Je serai poète et toi poésie ... or something like that. I'm not quite sure I buy fully into February being the dictated month of love and all things ooey gooey romantic-like, but it is no less February FIRST... today. Where is 2014 going?! Wasn't it just Christmas?! *Sigh. Slow down, '14... haha.

Anyway, to celebrate the new month, we can proudly announce that we are OFFICIALLY moved and settled [well, settled for the most part] into the new house! That means all of us.. together.. under one roof. I'm a happy girl.

Today's big ticket item on the agenda was decorating the wall above the mantle. With what, you ask? Sixty inches of plasma, to be precise. We'll surely enjoy it, but Sydni quickly pointed out that this entire scenario was devised solely for her cartoon-viewing pleasure. First world problems, kid.

I took to the ongoing process of homing miscellaneous things throughout the house while Rob busied himself readying the wall mount. He is so handy. I love that.


my project man!

And after we both carried and lifted the itty bitty "decoration" [don't ask me how I keep lifting and carrying all these things. It's a miracle I haven't broken myself or my things.. haha].

bam. 60" of over-mantle decoration. done.

It's starting to feel, one inch at a time, like a home. I will be elated when the last random item is shelved and we can kick back without a thing on the list. Maybe we'll have more time to do things like this: 

weight lifting with meatballs.
works, huh?

Haha.
Happy Saturday, and Happy February FIRST!!

xo | cmd 

OUT!

I apparently have representatives of my company who strongly resemble Billy Ray Cyrus. We discovered this today at work: 

we've got... celebrities.

Also, drumroooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll...

Tonight we officially cleaned out the last bit of EVERYthing I owned that was inside the Eleanor house! I am no longer a resident of that cute little neighborhood [and yes, I will in fact miss it a bit]. Sydni and I met Rob there to move out the last few things.

Now we're home, and it looks like tonight is going to be one of those relaxing nights, complete with dinner in and some good old fashioned cuddling up to a Veggie Tales movie.

Life is good. Life. Is. GOOD.

xo | cmd

[BIG] Unpacking!

I've said it before and I'll probably continue saying it until I actually start doing it:

I need to follow weather forecasts.
Today we woke up to nearly 6", if not more, of snow covering everything around our house. Neither Rob nor I had anticipated such heavy snowfall overnight. We emerged from the house to find his poor Harley, still strapped up in the back of his truck, covered top to bottom in a blanket of fluffy snow. Poor Harley. :(

hello, powder!

It's days like this that I sometimes wonder why I don't live on the top of a mountain with my snowboard and personal ski-lift. Oh, wait, that's right, I'm not a bajillionaire. Well, maybe one day. (:

Our mission - well, Rob's mission rather - was to find a viable spot to park and unload the Harley. The parameters consisted of a bank or wall about level with the truck, not sloping too far uphill [or downhill] and no drop off on the other side.

Easy enough, right?

Well..... by the sheer grace of God, we eventually drove around in enough circles to earn the pot-o'-gold, aka a bank between parking lots of a nearby church and apartment complex. It looked to be the perfect launch spot for the bike.

I ... wish I could've taken pictures of us shoving his 800+ lb bike from the bed of his truck, across loading tracks and onto a snow-covered landing. Had I tried, though, I'm sure one of us would be in a cast of some sort. That was no easy feat.

Fast forward to Rob not dropping the bike on the mile-or-so ride back to the house, and we're all home, safe, with Harley cozied up in the garage next to the 4-wheeler.

All in a day's work, that's for sure. Now, we relax. This weather is junk for driving, so it looks like we're staying in tonight. I am.. just fine with that. (:

xo | cmd

He. Is. HEEEERE!

Holy bajeepers... it is finally FRIDAY! [Halleluuuuujah!]

Work today was a pure testament that Fridays are a great place to interrupt the week before it gets itself into any more trouble. There are some circumstances out of our hands that needed attention, and today, in a matter of speaking, was D-Day for those things. The good news is, it's over and done with now.

I took advantage of a small window of time to run up to Kenwood before heading back to the house. Rob was en route here from Illinois for most of the day.... which means...

That's right, Rob is OFFICIALLY HERE!!!!

I am one truly, truly happy girl tonight. Today was a bit rough on both of us, but he is here. It's official. Rob is a Cincinnatian!

..... And now, the final unpacking continues!

We're home.

xo | cmd

And Then, It Was EMPTY!

I've been so focused on arranging and preparing the new house, that I've neglected any specific updates on the old digs. Welllll... 

then & now..
cleaaaaaaaaan & clear!

The main room at my old house feels so much bigger without anything in it, which I realize is generally the case with any room. I don't care though; I finally cleared out the last photo frame nail from the wall and have officially cleared out all signs of inhabitance from the back half of the old house. Save for our temporary sleep set up, "WE GONE!" [yiiiiieee!]

And, on an entirely unrelated note, I'm also declaring publicly today my affection and affinity for continued healthy eating. This little shoutout is really more for myself than any audience, but a little public posting never hurts when I'm trying to keep myself accountable.. 


greek yogurt + honey + blueberries
who says office life has to be all junk food!?

... I'm bent, folks, on a healthy 2014.

Right now, I'm more excited to [almost] be down to one house, instead of split between two. Home stretch!!!

xo | cmd

Little Sunday Things

First things first:

sonrise!

Sydni and I started Sunday off right with another well-delivered message from the pastoral staff at SonRise. This whole feeling-like-everything-is-applicable-to-my-life thing is a both refreshing and intimidating. It's as if the material being shared is realistic for the every day paths we follow, yet gritty enough to force some solid introspection on motives, habits, beliefs and behavior. Top it off with the side of grace with which it's given, and the perfect morning message is created. No complaints here (:

Today was sunny enough to keep us out of the house for a little while; Sydni reminded me that I needed to get "new oil" for the car, so we did that. The staff at Valvoline and I spent twenty minutes laughing at Sydni's collection of goofy faces as we sat in the bay while the work was being completed...

silly little spirit. i love that about her.

Oil change complete, we debated playing in what light snow was left around the yard, but opted instead to continue plugging away at straightening up the house. At this point, we've made major headway, but without staple living room furniture [aka, the couch, end tables, tv, tv stand, etc.], it reminds me a lot of a dinner plate with all the food shoved out to the edges.

..... stiiiiiiillllll workin' (:

I'm content though, with the progress. We've sorted through a lot of stuff in the past week, and the majority of it all has found its proper home. It's not bad for just us girls here ;)

We successfully enjoyed another weekend, and now Sydni The Emperor [not to be confused with an Empress, because apparently that's NOT A REAL THING, MOMMY....] and I, along with the pups Castle Horses are relaxing a little before we have to face that 5am Monday wake-up call again. ;) 

the emperor and her steeds.. haha

"add caption."
- no. ♥

Let's see if we can escape Monday. Ya think so?

...... yeah, neither do I.
G'Nite ♥

xo | cmd

Smileys Saturdays

I had three very contagious little grins following me around all day long:

sydni. sasha. stella.
happy girls!

It hasn't actually snowed hard in a couple of days, but it hasn't melted away yet, either. I was hoping for some time outside with Sydni, but after judging the sheer covering left on the yard and the soft ground beneath it, we decided it would be worth our time and may just make more of a mess than prove to be much fun.

sitting snow.

So, before we finally got out to run some other errands, I took to putting away a few miscellaneous things at the new house, and Sydni entertained herself and the dogs with a cuddle party, complete with every stuffed animal we've transferred so far from house to house. I realized after a few moments of complete silence that I should probably check to see what mischief was being attempted, but was instead met with this adorable scene:


"mommy, sasha and me and stella and all my animals and this baby in
the pink carrier thingy, we are having a cuddle party. and this blanket,
too. and this bag of all my little thingies. we're cuddling." - sydni

Hahaha. Adore.
It's getting pretty chilly outside, so we're cozying up and keeping warm for the evening. These days with no agenda are some of my favorites (:

Tomorrow it's church, followed by another day of whatever we please.
.... Weekends are pretty cool. ♥

xo | cmd

WE. FINISHED. ONE!!!!

*SQUEAAAAAAAL!

I am proud to say that Sydni and I managed to finally complete the first room of the new house. It just happens to be her room, primarily because all of her stuff was compact and easily moveable around the house. Whatever the case may be, her room is DONE and ready for her to move in!

she's proud of it, too! (;

I can't really justify why this felt like a weight was lifted off my shoulders tonight, other than that, in the spirit of moving, all of this grunt work has finally materialized into a finished product. Woo! The next step in the Sydni's bedroom process is updating her bedding, but we have plenty of time for that.

After we configured and re-configured all the shelves and furniture to our liking, I celebrated this small victory by collapsing momentarily on the bed. Syd on the other hand wanted to showcase some of her newest dance moves. I gladly obliged to be the audience.


We'll turn this house into a home yet..... just wait. Haha. Rob's lucky they forgot the steel support beams for the other bed frame, or I'd be sharing whatever debacle I could create in reconstructing that thing, too. In time..... in time.. haha.

For now, we're outta here. We're having a slumber party tonight since we have NO agenda tomorrow and are both planning to take advantage of sleeping in!

Happy Weekend!

xo | cmd

No Coffee After Noon

Don't judge me.
Today was a coffe day.
Like...... noon coffee. Yeah, I had my chance to snatch it up in the morning, but I didn't really feel like it until noon. 

whatev.

Anyone who knows me [namely myself, in this case] should know... very well .. that coffee is like sheer adrenaline to me these days, since I've actively cut back on daily consumption. Drinking COFFEE... at NOON.... probably would've been ill-advised by the 4:30pm me. Duh.

Basically, it meant that I was in no mood to do any more moving of any more things to any more places by the time work ended and I was en route back to the new digs. This, again, was a selective choice that I made out of my obsession to reach a desired state of semi-organization. I pushed myself into a lot of frustration this evening, wasn't very kind to Rob [who isn't doing anything wrong...] and left the house knowing I hadn't accomplished what I wanted to for whatever reason lay between me and what I deemed to be progress.

And then I saw this, posted who-knows-where, and promptly made it the background on my phone:

truth. rinse & repeat!

^ This really is not that serious, Cori. It's just moving, and I have plenty of time to get everything where it needs to be. Also, you look and sound like an idiot getting aggravated over what really.. is nothing.

That being said, I've apologized to Rob for being such a downer and noted to myself that there will be a 10am-or-sooner cutoff to consuming coffee at work. Real. Talk.

So yeah. We'll try again, tomorrow.

xo | cmd

Wednesday: Guess What? Moving....

Here is a single-item list of ways I probably would not have chosen to start off my Wednesday:

good move, cori.

^ That is what happens when you drive 8 miles over the speed limit in a school zone in Norwood. I'm not blaming anyone here; I was driving, I had a choice, I managed to keep strong my once-every-3-years speeding ticket streak, etc..... Luckily for us all, there wasn't a daggone kid in sight. I'm not condoning wreckless driving here; don't think I am. I'm just naturally aggravated by it, and kiiiiinda wanna kick myself for not remembering the cars I see pulled over likely for the same reason nearly every other day on my morning commute. Dumb, Cori... dumb.

Anyway, with that expensive start to the morning, I was hoping the day would improve. It did, because honestly improvement is a choice of reaction to circumstance.. or something like that.. and without too much fuss the day put its fangs away.

..... Well I take that back.

.. winter?

^ Before Wicked Wednesday finally gave way, there was a 6-mile stretch of blizzard-like conditions that materialized out of nowhere on the highway. This obviously caught us all off guard, even though every licensed driver in the midwest should be used to roulette weather by now. Whatever. We made it out to the new house safely for another night of organizing. I've tasked this out now, and made it a goal to complete certain areas, one step at a time. Otherwise, I'm all over the house meddling with one thing in each room, only to have half a dozen things started and nothing finished.

tonight's goals: assemble the craft desk & book case

Mission completed!

And now, we rest. The weather forecast doesn't even know it's own shadow at this point, so we may wake up to eight feet of snow or a flood tomorrow. The best thing we can do now is sleep away the hours until we get to find out.

ZzZz!

xo | cmd

Happy Birthday, MOM!!!

You wouldn't believe how old this woman turned today even if I did tell you, so we'll skip all that and go straigh to the important thing: Today.. is her BIRTHDAY.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!! 

♥ mom.

Every year, it seems like I try to one-up my dedication from the previous year, especially when it comes to family birthdays. I sat for a while today trying to configure what I could share that hasn't already been stated about this woman, and decided there isn't much.

That means that she's constant. If anything, it means that she's improving me, while being that solid rock on which a lot of people in my family lean and rely. She's driven, charismatic, decisive, thorough and patient [well, most of the time she's patient]. She's generous; my mother is the epitome of a selfless woman. At the end of my life, I can only hope to look back and find that I've closely modeled hers; she is the type of anchor that could stand to be duplicated many times for the benefit of mankind as a whole. She's a God-fearing sister, mother, aunt, grandmother and friend, whose reliability and consistency proves her an easy source of sound council and input. I am, for lack of more descriptive clarity, blessed to call this woman my mother. Happy birthday to my mom, the lantern of our house and ever-encouraging personification of the characteristics I need the most. I love you; happy, happy birthday! ♥

---------------------*♥*---------------------

I wasn't able to spend today with my mother, but we've made plans to celebrate here in Cincinnati a little later on, once moving has been completed.

Oh, yeah, that. Here's an update. It looks more like a tornado, but progress is progress, even if it simply means getting everything into one place and staged for the sorting. I brought the dogs along to keep me company. This is what's happening. I promise, this is not an episode of Hoarders.


testaments of another step forward. into a mess. we stepped into a mess. :/ agh!

Just looking at these pictures gives me a near-insurmountable amount of anxiety. I've been here before, in this state of flux, in that moment when you wish... you just wish you could find that one, little    (insert tiny item, ie., nailclipper?! that's likely buried in the deepest corner of a box somewhere)     . Good luck, right? Yeah. That was the sensation I had all this evening as I paddled upstream against a school of boxes and miscellaneous stuff. I don't believe I do, but this kinda crap makes me feel as though I have uncontrollable OCD issues. *Breathe, Cori. Haha.

.... earlier today...

^ Maybe eating like a rabbit will aid me in my quest of tranquility in the midst of moving. Haha. Or, maybe that part will just help me continue into this new year as that rejuvinated-from-the-inside-out person we all promised we would be once we were done shoving Christmas dinner(s) down our throats. Haha. One thing at a time. And while the salad was delicious, I'm presently in a ravenous state of hunger that will be dealt with here shortly [and likely in an embarrassing, gluttonous fashion].

Anyway,

"are we done yet?"

These two along with the other furball, were ready to call it a night; I obliged and that brings us to now, back in our old digs, with what little we toted over here for the keeping. There certainly is nothing quite like vagabond status. Haha...

Atsa' Wrap!

xo | cmd

Moving-Stuff-Mondays

There's going to be a theme carrying on for the next few weeks: Moving.
If it gets old to hear, trust me, I'm with ya.

I headed out for work around the same time that Rob headed in the opposite direction to meet with a prospective employer [yep, still plugging away at that task, too]. My drive was far less scenic than his, apparently, but he made sure to share the jaunt out 32 with me:

hello, world! ♥

Nothing like a small reminder of the beauty that our God creates, every single day. It's been chaotic around here; a tiny glimpse of a much bigger - and gorgeous, at that! - picture, is always welcome.

There was another nice little break in the mayhem today, when the last part of the order we placed on NoMoreRack with SANTA... arrived at my office today, as part of Sydni and my Christmas present. (: To say that she was equally excited is probably a gross understatement. 

tablet! (:

After work, I picked Sydni up and we made our way to the destination of the new house. I was bound and determined to get the dining room table in from the screened-in porch to the dining room. I had no idea how I was going to do that alone, and if you ask me now how I did it, I honestly couldn't give you a straight answer, other than I am lucky to have accomplished it with all my fingers & toes in tact.

"raaaaawr!," exclaimed the ninja......
hello, dining room (:

Sydni helped me babysit the pups while I was creating and navigating through pathways of boxes and furniture. This place looks like a household goods bomb detonated right in the middle of every room; it's a familiar, overwhelming sight that I'm determined to change by the end of this week.

........ Challenge accepted.

xo | cmd

Who Needs Professional Movers?!

Anna and I were feeling generous today, so we left the privelage of the bulky stuff to the boys: 

booom. bring on the heavy lifting.

^^ & yes, that's a total load of hogwash. While Anna and I did somehow manage to hoist some pieces that may've appeared to outweigh our abilities, by no means did we do the majority of the moving. Haha. No way. We'll take credit where it's due, but I'll definitely give it to the guys for practically clearing this thing out within a couple of hours. I have no idea how they managed to get those three big ticket items [toolbox, air compressor, pool table slates] up into the truck in the first place, but I'm thankful nobody was injured loading or unloading.

With the exception of a small portion of things still back in Rob's Illinois house, he's moved. The truck, 4-wheeler and Harley come later (:

To celebrate, we said to heck with healthy and made a beeline to Newport for some Bar Louie. Nobody complained.

lumberjack invasion...

Rob has a few things to wrap up tomorrow morning before he and the others head back to Illinois. For now, we're relaxing and not doing much of anything, save for resting up. It's back to the real world tomorrow, whatever that means (:

G'Nite!

xo | cmd

Let The REAL Moving BEGIN!

Itty bitty backdated... it's whatevs.

It's gettin' real here at the new digs, folks.

saturday warm up!

The first thing I have to do is acknowledge Rob, Jesse & Anna as being saints for enduring the trip out here. I say that because apparently, in the midst of trekking out here, the boat trailor suffered a flat tire, which meant an extra goose chase to replace it. By the time they conquered slow speeds, hilly climbs in Cincinnati, road construction and general traffic, Jesse & Anna had named the apparent face on the boat from following it for so long. They were all ready to get out of the car. I don't blame them one bit.

With their unfortunate delay, I opted for a quick visit to the gym to get the muscles warmed up for the day. Plus, the UA's are still in the process of being properly broken in; we're getting there!

After some brief leg stretching, there was the matter of planting a boat in the driveway. It might've been a 15-minute ordeal, but eventually Rob managed to settle the Stingray into its home for the cold months. I would've had the thing halfway in the yard, so no complaints here.

boat & truck: parked like a pro!

Nobody had any real expectations of anything being unloaded today, so with that being said, we took a few minutes to all collect ourselves before readying for a night out in Cinci. I learned earlier this week that Magnolia Sons [the super-talented collection of artists from Nashville] was scheduled back to The Drinkery tonight, so we sculpted evening plans around that.

We attempted to visit Bakersfield for dinner; they were at occupancy capacity, so for the first time ever, I visited Taste of Belgium outside of standard brunch hours. Of course, that didn't stop us from ordering the usual chicken & waffles, appropriately replacing orange juice with some Belgium house brews. Nader & Keith joined us for the experience, and it wasn't long before we were finished there and en route to heart of OTR.

Drinkery it was. Magnolia Sons it was. Awesome set list, it was [again]. We were not disappointed.

... after finally managing this around nader's head haha.. magnolia sons!

'Twas a good night all around, definitely :). It's great to have some of Rob's friends visiting, even if everything right now is up in the air and all over the place as far as sleeping arrangements and whatnot. We're taking comfort in the fact that it will not always be like this, haha.

For now, we're back with the pups, who were proud today to sport their new collars and tags to the bunch. They're ready for some snuggling, and we're all ready to call it a night.

xo | cmd

OHIO HOME {Literally! ;) }

A whiiiiiiiile back, I ordered some window decals from a grassroots company here in Cincinnati. Hometown pride is a big thing around here; I'm admittedly on the bandwagon, because I tend to think I should be proud of where I am. And I am. It's not sheer perfection, but it's home nonetheless and undeniably a part of my identity. Now that the Subie's here, I thought it better late than never to get this puppy on display!

yes, subie.. and yes, us... we're home! ♥

My next matter on the Ohio pride agenda is a Home-T. Updates on that later, hah...

For today, it was the standard schedule of work, lunch {Naked Pizza, with the pleasure of Lizzy joining us!}, and back again to continue trodding through this whole moving thing. The poor Subie's getting a workout between the two houses.

A quick update on all that [aka, status check on the new mess I'm building out of things from the "old house"]:

♥♥♥

^ I couldn't help it. I stacked those up just to get the rack started, and didn't catch the aesthetic cuteness of it until a couple of coats were on their way in later. Adore. Adore. Adore.

But seriously, I've started outlining the rooms with boxes and piles of things; I hate that this whole moving thing is practically a science to me by now, but it still doesn't make it any less agitating:


this is how grown-ups make messes....

The mess is temporary, Cori. Haha.

Anyway, that's the most exhilirating update out of this neck of the woods. I've done all I can do for now. Tomorrow = Rob, Jesse & Anna arriving with truck, boat and lots of stuffffff.

Here. We. GO!

xo | cmd