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Bye-Bye, Baby: Time For A “Big Girl” Room

Jordan Reid daughter

So big I can hardly stand it.

I expected to get a little misty-eyed about seeing my baby girl move out of her crib into a "big girl bed" (aka my son's old toddler bed)...but she is so freaking excited about it that it made me excited, too. (OK, so I may have cheated a little by putting a pink, heart-covered comforter on the bed. She was ALL ABOUT that thing.)

If you recall from this post, my major issue was that I needed to keep our futon in my daughter's room for when guests come to visit, but the room isn't big enough for a futon and a dresser and a toddler-sized bed - I tried, trust me. Kendrick came into the room one night and found me dragging pieces of furniture back and forth trying to find any iteration that worked, and it just wasn't possible. The solution: we picked up an inexpensive narrow dresser that would fit into Goldie's closet, and moved her old dresser into our room. The coolest part: the top of a dresser was a changing table, but it was removable - so we just slid it underneath the futon so it'd be out of sight but still accessible for diaper changes until we're done with potty-training.

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Today In Good Things: Harmonious Decor…And Linguica

Brightly colored Moroccan style outdoor rug

Lulu & Georgia Kelim Rug + Legs + Matching Pasta

Our house is pretty tiny - we've been over this - but it feels bigger than it is because we use our patio area so much that it's essentially a second living room. A couple of months ago, I decided to expand the patio by laying deck over a long, narrow spot that wasn't much more than a ditch running alongside our dining area...but the guys who I hired to do the work insisted that they couldn't match the flooring that was already installed; that color, they said, was no longer in production. (It is. I was in Home Depot the other day and hello, it is right there. I am annoyed, but it's also my fault for not looking into it myself, and whatever, it's just flooring.)

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My Dog Matches My Bedding (or: Kelly Van Halen Makes Blankets, And That’s Kind Of Amazing)

Lhasa apso on a soft blanket

Don't worry; he's literally going in for a bang trim today. Vision is imminent.

OK, so I have a thing for blankets. Kind of a big thing. (Whatever, as fixations go I think enjoying a nice, fuzzy blanket is a pretty non-terrible one.) The blanket pictured here both perfectly matches my dog and sort of feels like him, except better (sorry, Virgil). Let's say you crossed him with an extremely fluffy baby panda, and then gave the whole deal a nice blowout: that's a pretty good approximation of the softness level we're talking about.

And you know who makes the one pictured here? KVH by Kelly Van Halen. I don't know, I thought that was sort of random and interesting. Apparently she's been designing and building beautiful Los Angeles area homes for years, and recently decided to expand into making luxury at-home essentials – including the blanket you see here.

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The Great Outdoors

Alisa + me + babies | Our newly redecorated backyard

The fact that I love our house is a bit of a lucky surprise – purchasing a home that you’ve only seen on a FaceTime video is…well, a questionable decision, at best. But I do! I totally love it.

The one thing about our place that I wasn’t quite sure about when we decided to buy it: its size. It’s about the same square footage as the house we moved out of, which had been starting to feel a bit cramped for our growing family. And yet this house feels way more expansive to me – partially, I think, because it’s all on one level, but mostly because of our outdoor space.


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