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I have been spending way too much time cycling through the news the last few weeks, so I took another break and it was just what I needed. I felt happier and more motivated. My husband told me the short version of anything important that I may have missed (surprise: it wasn’t much) and that was good enough. Highly recommend.
My two oldest boys are done with work for the winter months, so I thought I’d try stripping their smelly farm clothes. I used a recipe that only needed three ingredients: Borax, powdered Tide detergent and Super Washing Soda. (I found two out of three at my grocery store, but did have to order the Washing Soda online.) The instructions were super easy and oh.my.word. The results were so good and SO gross. I’m planning to do all of our workout clothes next.
Project of the week: a cocoa station for the kitchen! It was a huge success with the kids and has been in daily use. Doesn’t everything just look better in a glass jar? Right now I put out our Polish Pottery mugs, but I’ll swap them out with Christmas ones in a few weeks.
My oldest turned 14 this week and requested a pan of my blueberry peach cobbler all to himself. An odd choice for November, but I aim to please! I kept sneaking glances at him throughout the week and I just cannot believe that that squishy little baby who made me a mother is now this tall, handsome teenager. The days are long, but the years are so very short.
We lost power for over three hours during a big wind storm and I spent the afternoon keeping our new fireplace going. I don’t want to brag, but I’m practically a pioneer woman now, ha!
Last but not least: after almost ten years of blogging, I finally migrated over to a self-hosted website! I still have so much to learn and lots of posts to tweak, but am so excited about the change.
Ohhhhh tell me about your migration!!! Did you do it yourself? I think it’s really time to do the same, but it’s such a daunting prospect…
It was actually easier than I expected! I did end up purchasing a plugin to migrate everything over from Blogger, but I think it was completely worth the money since I had over 1,000 posts. WordPress is a little overwhelming, but I’m excited to learn and experiment. Let me know if I can be of any more help if you decide to switch over!