Throwback Post: Shadows and Bread While Swimming

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September 9 2015:

Working in the mobile office this morning while Lillian is building those muscles!! I came across one of the most amazing poems this morning … about shadows. “Shadows are everywhere” … I’m confident you’ll like it too! Go here to join the shadow world for a moment …

Shadows Are Always There

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Even bread knows about hearts. Thomas was eating a piece of bread with dinner one night and noticed his bread had shaped into a heart! xoxo

It’s been a week and a half in the new place. Just finished the second blog post about this adventure. We are in love with our tiny little place … xoxo

Living in a Tiny Home Adventures – Week One

Just had the most amazing swim! Felt so peaceful and sweet!! YUM!! Now, we’re all hungry! Thomas wants to know why swimming makes you so hungry. xoxo

Apparently going for a swim not only makes one hungry. It also drenches one with creativity when making dinner. Thomas asked for something different done with the chicken this time. Couscous & Chicken in Pumpkin Cream Sauce and French Style Flat Bread with mushrooms, Emmental & Parmesan cheese and sliced bananas with cinnamon and coconut sugar. My body is relaxed and full. I am content and peaceful. So wonderful!


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September 9 2014:

Could there be anything more beautiful and love infusing as a tender kiss on the cheek from the one you get to call your son? Swoon …. xoxo

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During our walk last night Lillian said she wanted to give anonymous gifts to people we don’t know and asked for ideas. She referenced the times that she and Thomas had been the recipients of anonymous gifts. I suggested we could paint inspirational words/messages on rocks and give to people. She liked that idea! She suggested we could write “Love Notes” (my term) and hand those out anonymously too! She was thinking and brainstorming during our entire walk.

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Preparing for the annual Lillian Presentation! The FUN begins tomorrow at 9:00 am in the Stillwater classroom at HDMS. Lillian’s classmates get to have a basic, mini lesson on genes and chromosomes and a huge lesson about non-judgment, differences, compassion and supporting one another!!

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September 9 2012:

WHEW!!!! Dusting, cleaning floors, getting rid of piles ALL day with a little ole Family Swim Time Break this afternoon with the Team …. I’m tired y’all; but darn this feels GOOD!!! Nothin like some good ole cleaning and purging to give a girl a pep in her step and to clear the way for possibilities ….

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September 9 2011:

Happy Happy Happy Early 10th Birthday to my AWE-some Fairy Princess Lillian and Happy Happy Woop Woop to Mama for getting her book to the editor this morning!!! WooooooHooooooooo, YeeeeeeeHaaaaaawwww and Hot Da**!!!

Throwback Post: Improvising and Living in a Tiny Home

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October 16 2015:

Just published the next blog post about living in our tiny place … “This update is all about improvising and using what I already have on hand. I love being able to use whatever I’ve got and creating exactly what I want, exactly when I want it. FUN!” This one covers removing closet doors, creating screen doors, creating walls, and meeting some new little furry friends. Hope y’all enjoy it! xoxo

Living in a Tiny Home Adventures – Week Seven

Throwback Post: Grateful for the Full Plate of Opportunities

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August 18 2015:

Just asked for a 2 day extension for the article I’m contributing to the Australian Institute on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.

I am extremely, extremely grateful for the full plate of opportunities and just to spice it up I’ve got side dishes of trying to find us an affordable place to live by 9.15, facilitating workshops, subbing at HDMS as needed, and figuring out how to fit in 4 therapies a week for Lillian.

The rental market is CRAZY here and the prices are outrageous. When I do find a place, before I can get an app completed it’s gone! I am truly blessed and grateful and know that the perfect place will land in front of my eyes very soon! If it suits you, please send good juju to Team TLC finding a place before The Romano Duo leave on 9.15. Thank you …. xoxo

**December 8 2021** We did find that perfect place. Pictured above. We lived there from September 2015 through November 2019. We loved walking around the lake nearly every day. It was tiny, about 810 square feet, a one bedroom, one bath. It was the best I could do at the time. We adored living there, but were more than ready to move on to having 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.

Tiny Home Living – Update

January 27 2019:

It’s been 3 years since I’ve posted an update about this … Thought it was about time! xoxo

The Top Six Lessons Learned from Tiny Home Living …. As a Family of Three

The last update I wrote about our tiny home living was at four months. Here we are going into our fourth year! I feel we are long overdue for an update. It’s been so long in coming partly due to the fact that I truly thought we would only be here one year, two years at the most and partly due to procrastination….

The Top Six Lessons Learned from Tiny Home Living …. As a Family of Three

 

How We Decorate for the Season in a Tiny Home

November 27 2017:

Our wee little 1 foot tree to match our wee little tiny home. The star from our old tree is way too big so I nest it in a glass bowl surrounded by lights and mini glass balls.

Going on our 3rd Christmas in an 800 square foot one bedroom, one bathroom condo. Next up is hanging our collection of handmade, sparkly, paper snowflakes. Part 1

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Making Cards and Listening to Music and Home Made Screen

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October 4 2015:

An afternoon of making cards and listening to Halloween party music. Love me some “Werewolf in London”, “Disco Inferno”, and “Boogeyman”.

Like my homemade screen door? Just love having the doors and windows open, yet not thrilled with flies and other little critters buzzing around our heads and food. This is working perfect. Had it hanging with thumbtacks to see how it worked. Hung it on a curtain rod today.

Screen Door and Making Cards 10.4.15