Before

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New tangle before

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Eden started 1st grade today. She was pretty nervous despite the fact that she was with all her friends. It was hard for me to leave her upset but such is the life of a mommy.

Today we start renovating the new store! its exciting and a little nerve wracking! wish me lots of painting luck!

Just wanted to write to say that I’m still alive! Things have been busy around here and somewhat difficult. Eden starts 1st grade on Monday and we also take over the new space for Tangle that day. I don’t know how much time I’ll have to write over the next few weeks as I transform the new store, but I’ll definitely take pictures!

I wanna watch TV.

No, we’re going to get rid of TV.

No! Please? I really like TV. It’s the only thing I like to do!

Sorry, TV isn’t good for us. We don’t need to watch it.

But TV shows us stuff that we want to buy.

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It’s time to blow up our life. We’ve been far too complacent and self absorbed for far to long. I don’t know exactly what that means for all of us, but we will all be changing our lives together. Getting rid of cable is just one of the first small steps. Getting rid of the “stuff” that we just think we have to have is the next.

I’m excited.

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Were just getting ready to fill the vases with flowers. My mom sewed the runners out of satin – enough for thirty tables. we will also add 200 party favor boxes to the tables as well. Theyre filled with candy! Eden and honor are particularly excited about that!

‘vases’ for the wedding

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Here are the ‘vases’ for the wedding. We are taking wide mouth pint jars, covering them with taffeta, wrapping them with tulle and tying with a satin ribbon. The wedding colors are black and white with the only color coming from bright flowers.
I cant believe that my sister is getting married in one week!

Greetings from best buy

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weve been having fun playing with the powerbooks.

On our way home from silver jack.

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Were on our way home from camping. It has been fun and more stressful than i anticipated. Im ready to go home despite all the stresses i left there. The best part of the whole thing was having jim to myself for twelve days straight. The kids have been great… The dog not so much. Ill write about the whole trip more when its not via text!

•homemade butter!

• I just emailed off my chapters!!!!!!! YAY!!!!! I can’t believe I finished that!

I have so much bubbling inside me but I feel empty of words. Right now I’m researching why Camelbacks are so much more $$ than the other brands and trying to figure out how to outfit myself with a freaking brilliant first aid kit. I want to be able to give stitches if absolutely need be. I don’t want any of this single doses of sudafed and tylenol packaged in tiny paper envelopes crap, I want to actually be prepared.