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Every Thursday, here at Like Mother, Like Daughter!
First up — the winner of the pocket oratory and a copy of The Little Oratory: Hannah Marie! Congratulations, Hannah Marie, and look for an email from us about how to claim your goodies.
If you are not Hannah Marie, but still have your heart set on one of those sweet pocket oratories, Nanci is offering LMLD readers a special discount — just enter LENTPRAYER when checking out in her shop for 15% off through Ash Wednesday.
We're still in the process of painting the study — being able to shut the door on the whole mess of a project means that we can do it in fits and spurts, but it also means that it can take a long time. The built-ins are done, though not actually put back together yet. (they're currently holding the contents of the room's other two, non-built-in bookshelves while we paint behind those. I told you this room was crowded!) Aren't they looking Fresh and White?!
We're currently debating whether to go ahead and paint the walls too. (we have plenty of leftover wall paint from the living room and it could use a freshening up, but we also could not worry about it, and it would still look pretty good. And if we paint the walls, we probably need to do the ceiling too, and ugh, is there anything worse than painting ceilings??)
Let the record show I am using the pronoun “we” loosely here. I've been doing my fair share of the debating and the book-moving, but practically none of the painting…
Winter in Oklahoma means 80-degree days and wind chills in the teens, all in the same week. We try to take advantage of the warm afternoons when they come along.
(This is a good shot of Molly's new haircut. I've never cut the front of her hair — she has natural bangs. And after a few weeks of her refusing me putting elastics in her hair, we gave her a fresh little bob to give the front a chance to catch up a bit. Naturally, the following day she came to me with every elastic and barrette she could find, and asked for me to put them all in at once.)
Their big thing these days is to eat their snack up in the treehouse. We divide it up into two bags so they each have something to carry.
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Heather says
Is there nothing better than sunshine on a winter day? enjoyed your pics
Tacy Williams Beck says
Aw! Your kids are so cute! I love Molly’s new haircut. And that baby! She’s adorable. I love the idea of a snack in the treehouse. Pure simplicity and fun.
Chere Mama says
Just love the picture of your sweet, serious son with his walking stick! And the lunch in two bags..very important!!!
Becky g says
Everything you just shared, photographic and otherwise, is adorable!
priest's wife @byzcathwife says
sweet siblings together- I love the play house!
Heidi says
Oh, those last few pictures brought back memories of sort-of warm winter days in our little piece of southwest Oklahoma, just west of you, with all that tawny grass and corrugated metal. I was Pippo’s age and my brother was Molly’s; we’d gather pecans in my grandma’s old purses and stomp on them on the sidewalk or on the roof of the doghouse so we could eat the meat. Or we’d climb around on those piles of rocks we called mountains while my grandpa fed the cattle in the pastures. What a great place to be a kid!
Jill Foley says
Gorgeous golden hour lighting…
Lisa G. says
What lovely photos of your children! And I’m glad to see a little girl, especially, who’s not afraid of heights; since I’ve always had this problem myself.
Barbara says
Your book shelves look so fresh. Ours, newly built about five years ago (actually I just remembered it was the year St. John Paul II died, so it was a few more than five!) are needing a sprucing up. Even with big kids the paint gets chipped and fingerprints are left!
And I know how you feel about ceilings. I have one from the boys’ old room that is midnight blue with small, medium and large dots (stars) from corner to corner. It’s now the guest room and I really want to get it painted, so I can pretty up the room. I’m terrified that even a coat of primer and a coat of paint won’t cover the blue and the dots. Trying to convince my husband it might be worth paying a painter!
Your children are so beautiful. Pippo is so tall — he really sprouted, and the girls are looking so much older than the last time I saw them. Oh, time does fly!
Jen says
A tree house! Wonderful!
Maurisa says
They are beautiful! Don’t blink! You can take my word on that. Hope you have a blessed Lent.
Woman of the House says
Beautiful bookcases and beautiful babies! I really like Molly’s haircut. I’ve always been partial to chin-length bobs on little girls. Both my girls had them at that age. 🙂
Katie says
Some days late, but the quilt post reminded me of the (among other things) haircut post, about which I had intended to say, cute! You gave me some toddler-girl-haircut pointers last year which were most helpful, and this post reminds me that it’s about time for another trim. Molly is a couple months younger, and her hair seems to grow a touch more quickly, but otherwise she and mine seem to have the same color/texture/shape going on, so it continues to be GREAT to watch an experienced mama take care of things a couple of steps ahead of me. The IG photo has got me looking for those long metal clips . . . they’re somewhere in the basement and I think I know where, just need to remember at a two-hands, baby-free moment. =)