Natural Urban Home

We are home.

April 25, 2012
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We are home.

Two full weeks in and it is official. We made cookies. Click here for the awesome recipe we used and yes, I have Appletini colored countertops! We organized the new Play Room! STUVA system from IKEA. We christened the new appliances! (Not like THAT! Minds out of the gutters Mamas!) Little C has taken it upon himself to be my official laundry sorter. (I win!!) AND I may be slightly in love with both my new washer/dryer and also having my laundry room on the main floor! We walk the dog HERE every day! This is literally steps from our front door. Ravine living FTW!! And we flipped the switch and had our first evening by the very modern fireplace. THIS is our home! Our beautiful, dream come true, Natural Urban Home! Natasha~  

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too much

April 14, 2012
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too much

Remember that time when I wanted to be all smart and political and help inform my fellow mamas about the upcoming election? AND I was moving into the Natural Urban Home that very same weekend? Yeah… I did that. And now I  have completely overextended myself. This move has been tough. I have been physically and emotionally exhausted every day this week and there is still so much to do to get us completely settled in the house. AND there are still a fair amount of outstanding projects that need completing in and around the house that I have to either supervise or be on hand for as well this coming week. So I must apologize to all of you for promising more than I can deliver right now. I just can’t research and write the posts about the parties and their platforms. If we had another month and...

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48 hours

April 5, 2012
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48 hours

In less than 48 hours we will be moving into the Natural Urban Home. Yes, yes, I know, it’s all I am talking about lately, but I am getting excited. Kinda. I am also THE BIGGEST ball of stress and anxiety, that it is not even funny! Over the last few weeks I have managed to put myself into a full-fledged RA flare AND give myself what I think are the beginnings of a stomach ulcer. TUMS and my anti-inflammatory medications are my very good friends this week. The last time we moved, Little C was 6 months old. He didn’t care what was going on and was content to just be worn in a carrier while I packed up our little house. And it was June. Today I woke up to this…. Mother Nature is playing a cruel, cruel, four days late, April Fool’s  joke on me! I...

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Breaking up is hard to do.

March 23, 2012
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Breaking up is hard to do.

I think I am in denial. About moving that is. We are two weeks away from our designated move-in date to the Natural Urban Home and I have packed a grand total of 16 boxes. Every day I look around and I think to myself, “GET GOING WOMAN! What are you waiting for? All of this ‘stuff’ is not going to pack itself!” (No matter how much I wish and pray and dream for this to be true!) As I peel back the layers of US from this house, I realize that I am having a hard time “breaking up” with our home. This is the only real home that the four of us have known together and the one that has seen us grow together as a family. This is the only home my children have experienced Christmas in. The house they took their first steps in and...

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exhaustion

March 2, 2012
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exhaustion

Yesterday was not the best of days. We ran into a snafu with the Natural Urban Home and I spent at least 4 hours with my contractor and one of the sub-contractors working on and coming up with a solution to the problem. I don’t want to bore you with all the details, but it was a BIG one. And because of it, I felt like I was on the verge of throwing up all day yesterday. It is all straightened out today (thank GAWD!!) and the guys are back at work at the house fixing the problem and working very hard to give us exactly what we want. So that is a good thing. What totally sucks though is that I feel like a Mac Truck rolled over me. I am so mentally and physically exhausted today that I am surprised I can even walk and talk properly....

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Progress, pictures and a bit of a panic!

February 28, 2012
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Progress, pictures and a bit of a panic!

Ok, so in July of 2011 I had this big plan to document and blog about the whole process of us building our Natural Urban Home. And now it is the end of February and we are about five weeks away from getting possession of said home. Um… Oops! I am so sorry for leaving you all out of the loop, but if you have been following along for the past 6 months you’ll know how crazy and busy it has been around here (and in my mind). But I have been taking pictures… Lots and lots of pictures! So when we left off, the full height ICF (insulated concrete forms) had just been poured.  I get a lot of questions about why we built the house like this, so here it is, the top 5 reasons why we choose to use ICF (information from the ICForming website). ICF...

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om…..

February 7, 2012
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Today I am running through all the phrases and sayings and meditations I can to keep my calm. “Everything happens for a reason.” “Problems are not stops signs, they are guideposts.” Robert Schuller “The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”  Epictetus “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming….” Dory It is kind of working. Although I am pretty sure I freaked my kids out real good when I broke down and started sobbing after I picked them up (25 minutes late) from school, got another phone call about the Natural Urban Home and YET another issue that is not going as planned that I have to deal with and after I yelled at them to stop the FUCKING WHINING ALREADY!! (Sad to say–that is a direct quote.) I really just have to calm down, take some deep breaths...

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it is all up here in my head

February 2, 2012
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I swear I am writing. (And not just taking silly iPhone pictures all day!) See… Writing, writing, writing. OK. Here’s the thing… I have one seriously big flaw. (Yes, yes, I know I have more than that, but this is the biggie!) I have HORRIBLE time management skills. Like, truly AWFUL! I can guarantee you that I have not been on time for more than about 5 things in the last 5 years and these were probably all flights somewhere! And every day, I get these amazing ideas for blog posts and things I want to write about and I mentally take notes and I start to “write” the posts in my head and tell myself that when I get home and the kids are napping, I will write and post all these amazing things. And then I get home and the kids decide NOT to nap, or there...

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Three more days…

January 16, 2012
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Three more days…

Day 13. In my bag …my new Kate Spade bag that is!! Day 14. Reading About to start this… Day 15. Happiness… ..is being 6-8 weeks away from moving in. #JANphotoaday Challenge. Cheers, N~

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three days

January 12, 2012
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three days

Day 10: Childhood… heroes that is. Day 11: Where I sleep… well, at least it will be in about 6-8 weeks. Day 12: Close-up My beautiful “Renaissance Baby” nursing. For most of my #JANphotoaday shots I have been using a new photography App called Camera+ and I am really liking it. I hope you are enjoying my shots! N~

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