Calmly Chaotic

How was your weekend? Ours was a good one. Friday night Andrew and I pretended we were real adults and headed out vintage furniture shopping. We headed to old Ottawa South first to the Antique Market (no luck), Alteriors (far too pricey for us), and we tried stopping by the Warehouse at Champagne …

I had a I need to get out of this damn house moment earlier this week. Nothing against this specific house, or the fact that it isn't mine, more a usual case of stay at home mom claustrophobia, because that's a real thing, isn't it? Moving on... I texted a girlfriend hoping she'd b…

How long does it take you to relax when you go on vacation? Normally, I'm about five minutes in and I am good, pass the cocktail it's time to forget about the ongoing stream of to dos. This past weekend we headed to Lake Placid to meet up with my parents and it wasn't until our last mo…

This bedroom was love at first sight for me. It's small, it's cosy but not at all cluttered and that bed has me wanting to climb in, clothes and all and just nap away the afternoon... and I don't nap... not ever... not even when I had newborn twins and survived on three hours of sleep a…

I knew I wanted to gut a kitchen before we found our new house. I should really use the word we here but that would be a lie. Andrew is one hundred percent (I think) on board for the new kitchen but he could have lived with an existing kitchen. I could not and one of these days I will explain why.

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We're here. I'm sitting in a house I never lived in and now call home.

That's right. Picture me rooting through cupboards as Andrew asks me where anything is. "I don't know. I never lived here..." is something I find myself saying far too often.

Because I never lived here…