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melissa @ the inspired room - Oh, yay, I love the new bathroom vanity! I’ll have to send you a pic (when I get one) of the vanity we did for the beach house. It was a buffet (not an antique though) before it was a vanity!
Can’t wait to see the progress!
Melissa

Dana D - OH WOW! I think my grandmother has the exact same piece of furniture as your future bathroom vanity. It’s part of her dining room set! She stores her table linens in the drawers. I’m making a mental note to take a good look at hers next time I go visit! (And if I can remember, I might even send you a picture or two!)

Melanie - Meg,
I just love your blog. It makes me happy to read it. You also take great pictures. I am very organized (a little anal) and love to decorate my house and cook but I am not creative like you. I love that you are a free spirit and don’t let things like the house (and laundry) get to you. That, I can’t do. I guess you could say I am more like your husband. I have only one child, a boy, (13) so I can’t say we have a ton in common but I could so see being your friend if we lived closer. I am in sunny Fl. (in the 80 degree weather) but if I were closer, I would love to go to Barnes & Noble together. (that, we do have in common) Anyway, thanks for the smile I get everyday from reading your blog. Keep it up!

Aimee - I want to know how you get thirty some stinkin’ comments on a messy house! Like this is something new. Please. Love ya.

Linda - Oh…thank goodness!! Honestly, your home is my dream home and ALWAYS looks like it is perfect and magazine ready. I always felt that the fun you all have still seemed to lend itself to incidental, photographable… stylish mess, if you will! I feel soooo much better now..is that pathetic or what??!!
Love, love, love your blog!! Even more, now…
Linda

Gabrielle - but I bet you have happy kids…and they are colorful and creative..I wish I could be more like that…I really do…to the left of me as I type this…is the dining room table with ketchup stains from last nights dinner and and syrup from the pancakes this morning…it is knawing on me to clean it up….but I’m so tired from menapausal lack of sleep…and I have had 3 cups of and still I need something stronger…latte anyone?

Queenie Bee - Thank you, thank you, thank you! And I thought it was just me with these issues! I’m ready to send my kiddos back to public school next year…and homeschooling is NOT the problem…it’s my cluttered HOUSE that’s the problem! LOL! It just seems never ending. Hey, but it does remind me of a wonderful quote that I once read: “ONE CANNOT BE CREATIVE AND TIDY AT THE SAME TIME!” Isn’t that sooooo true?! Thanks for posting!

Jennie W. - Meg–I can’t thank you enough for this post. So, I’m not the only one whose house looks like this 99.9% of the time? PHEW!

traci - oh meg – i love how you show your real life. thanks. it makes me feel good. i should follow your lead and take a few “real” photos around here tomorrow. my laundry is caught up, but the kids’ room are awful and i thing we have a “famous footwear” store on our front porch. life is crazy and cleaning is the least fun part of it – so, don’t do it. there are more important things.

Sara - Oh Meg, I feel your pain. I have a similar but smaller scale mess AND a dirt front yard. Usually the house is “presentable” for birthdays and planned gatherings only. Much to my dismay. Instead of cleaning, I usually head down to the studio at night and paint. Ya Gotta Have Priorities!!!!!!!!

Holly - Oh, thank you!
Love this post and your blog in general. I have the fun piles here at home with my husband & 3 kids too. That’s just life at this point in our lives.
Have to say that even your piles are pretty…and colorful. =-)
Your photos are always so lovely too. Great eye for beauty, you have. =-)

Gini - come on over to my house, girl…..I, unlike you, have only shot pictures of my “heaping piles of laundry” – not the rest of my house. I am not ready to put it out there to all my friends that I am really not what they think I am!! right on, for keeping it real!

holly - I have 5 kids too and I can tell you I KNOW!!!! You missed all the shoes that they take off and don’t put in the shoe rack by the door! Thank you for being real- I start feeling like I am a slob- but you are too (Insert sweet sisterly laughing)

Lanny Stanard - Hey megan, to bad I don’t live closer I clean house for a living and would love to help! have fun I’ll be thinking of you!
Lanny.
http://www.simplylanny.blogspot.com

chris - Ah ha! you’re one of us, well the outward rooms look fine here , but beware of closets cupboards and my laundry craft storage area, its the lack of free time to organize as you go , sometimes , ok a lot of times you just have to toss and get onto something else more pressing , oh plus I hate laundry especially putting it away , I need more closet organizers .
Now you are making me want to cleam more, I am recalling all my bad closets:(

jerusalem - oh honey I am so glad to see someone else leaving their suitcase a mess for more than a day! Their are always “decorative” laundry and dish piles around here! And I only have half the kids you do!! There is beauty in the mess – it’s called life! Happy Weekend!

Brenis - Oh Meg! I feel your pain! Laundry is my arch nemisis! LOL! It’s never ending, and even when you are washing, drying and folding all day, all week, there is always MORE! You have one more kid than we do, thus what… another closet full of laundry?
If you ever figure out something that WORKS to keep up, please shout it from the rooftops so the rest of us can benefit too! LOL

Lee Ann - Oh Thank you! I always tell my husband, “I think the laundry ferry will come today.” Somehow she skips over my house a lot though. And the dishes…who can keep up? Sometimes I do good until the dishwasher is full. Then they pile up. Then it becomes such a big job to actually unload AND reload and by that time there’s so many dishes that the dishwasher is full again and the cycle continues. You’re not alone and see how many “thank you’s” you received for showing us that?

Andrea - Whew! I am not the only one. I don’t mind, well ok i do, but the part that bothers me the most is the constant dishes in the sink…….always……..I wish, sometimes that I was Jane Jetson….that robot housekeeper of hers kept things ship shape always……LOL

Tonya - yup…that looks about right…
(love this post!)
Tonya

April - OH my gosh…I feel so much better…now. -thanks

Lauren - Wonderful! Adorable!
I was JUST THERE last Sunday with all MY kids and we were doing almost the SAME THINGS you’re kids are doing here! How funny is that?!
I posted three photos of my kids eating at IHOP on MY blog – is there something in the water Meg? Or can we just chalk it up to “great minds think alike”?
Take care!

Jennifer P. - You always manage to catch your kids in perfect kid poses. Love that one of Lauren and the sideways glance!
we went to IHOP not too long ago and the waiter dropped a whole plate of pancakes on my 3 year old’s head. Not only was there very little apology, there was no complimentary ANYTHING. We haven’t been back since. but you’ve made it all look so tasty, we might strap on our helmets and try it again ;)!

eryn - I love the pic of talby…she’s so darn beautiful! I LOVE french toast…there’s no shame in that! I order it almost every time I go out for breakfast (the like twice a year it happens).
ps, changed my blog url to snapshotsofmymommymoments.blogspot.com

Laura T. - Great pictures —
My son LOVES IHOP; however, we don’t have one near us in NJ. Whenever we travel to Ohio, we make sure we stop so he can have his IHOP fix.

traci - i haven’t been to an ihop since i was very young. i loved them. i might have to find one – your post made me hungry. i would have been like sean – i would order lunch food for breakfast. thanks for the memories.

traci - yes, i think annie is taking after mama. you can tell she is with you while you are taking your beautiful pictures. she is a natural. i love all the t-shirts in your pictures – we aren’t there yet but it gives me hope that warmer weather is on its way.

melissa @ the inspired room - Holy cow, that was creepy. And that frog, what an amazing closeup of his MOUTH!
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Jennifer P. - Snakes and frogs and freaky birds—eeeew :)! I’m a little squeamish–but glad you’re a cool mom with brave kiddos!

mom - These women who have commented about yucky snakes never went on Audobon Campouts, did they? I will send the picture of you holding the snake and see if they really freak out!!

seve - Your picture of the close-up on the snake’s head with the out-of-focus face in the background is great. I really love it.

traci - Everytime I read or look at your blog it reminds me I need to LOOSEN up!!! I probably would never have allowed them to be over by the water doing that but WHY NOT? Who cares if they get a bit wet or dirty? Its spring break…not heading to church.
The one area I couldnt do…is letting my gorgeous daughter kiss the snake…YIKES!!!! I DO NOT DO SNAKES!!! Bless her heart for loving slimmy things.ewwwwwwwwww…..No way could I have even taken the picture..lol
JUST LUUUUUUUV your blog!!!!

Lindy - LOVE your blog – your photo stories are so wonderful. I look forward to all of the color in them. Nice to see that smile on Lauren – I too am a critter lover. slimy or not. After all they are all God’s Creatures.

Tonya - your kiddos are soooo beautiful!

meg duerksen - Sure had a good time on Spring Break with all the kiddos. I had today off and I slept until 10. Tired!!
Looks like the Easter presents were a hit. Glad I could help.

Allikayes Mama - Oh! My little cutie has those same HOT pink cowgirl boots! They are fabulous!!! :0) Happy Easter to ya!

Lisa Wakely - Looks like everyone had a great Easter. Every time I am in Target (we won’t talk about how often that is) and see those Monkey plates I think of you 🙂

Jenn - I got individual towels for the kids about 5 years ago when we first got married. One thing that drives me crazy is someone else using my bath towel! I don’t even let Russ use mine. To solve the problem – everyone got their own and yes it cut down on laundry. They love their own towels and are posessive of them. Recently Konley and I went shopping and got new ones for everyone.

Crystal - What a BEAUtiful family!! Looks like you guys had an amazing weekend too!! 🙂 Great Easter “baskets” 🙂

meg duerksen - glad to see i am not the only one who shops last minute!
-meg

danelle - I have nothing for Easter baskets as of 12:50 Saturday. I need to get busy.

chris - If they did sweet stuff all the time we would never appreciate it, your kids are so cute.
Happy Easter

amy - I thought it seemed rather quiet across the street. Your hubby’s been outside working hard though! Happy Easter to you!

Jennifer P. - Love those precious moments of sibling harmony!
I have nothing for my Easter baskets as of 3:48. I forgot I even needed to go buy stuff. Thanks for reminding me :)!