Natural Urban Home

the ordinary life of a {closet} loner

April 2, 2013
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the ordinary life of a {closet} loner

This is what I love doing. I am sitting alone at one end of a dining room table that can easily sit 10-12 people. A cup of tea to my right and the Tar Beach Lullabies playlist from Songza playing on my iPad to my left and my sleeping pup at my feet (keeping them warm). The lights are mostly off and I am writing by the glow of my laptop and the still light dusk of a Northern Alberta spring night. Today, I took my children to a birthday party at one of those jumpy castle play place establishments that are all the rage these days. I knew most of the parents and kids at the party and while it was nice to visit with everyone, I felt this strange urge to escape from this social situation. I wanted to hightail it out of there and run off for...

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Score!!

February 16, 2013
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Score!!

It seems I have been hit with an early Spring Cleaning bug. This week I finally cleaned up and organized the laundry room and unpacked the few remaining boxes that had migrated there for lack of a better place. I now can actually see and use the counter-top that is in there and even managed to organize the drawers with all the kids crafting supplies. Today I tackled the next room and cleaned and de-cluttered my half of our joint office and my desk. And yes, it took me the better part of the day! BUT… While I was cleaning and purging and shredding A LOT of papers, this is what I found:  $70.00 worth of Chapters/indigo gift cards.  A $25.oo gift card for Superstore.  A $150.00 gift certificate for Cosafina (a home decor store here in Edmonton). And…  Not one, but TWO gift certificates for a one-hour massage!!...

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Let there be shelves

August 19, 2012
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Let there be shelves

Natural Urban Dad may not always be the handiest guy around, but when he sets his mind to do something, he finds a way. He chose this weekend to furnish our storage room with shelving and I am thrilled with all of his hard work. Including the multiple trips to Home Depot because he miscalculated and needed to get a few more pieces of plywood or more screws or a new drill! So with lots of help from his dad and the kids too, what started out as this.   Soon became this. Which then got moved into here. …and now it is my job to organize it all! Wait… Whose bright idea was this again?? Good night all. I guess we all know what I am doing tomorrow! Natasha~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HA! Post #19 DONE! Okay….  Carry on. Summer Blog Challenge…. yadda, yadda, yadda Zita at The Dulock Diaries. Meaghan at MagzD Life...

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Tired and dirty

August 17, 2012
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Tired and dirty

I am so tired. Ridiculous, can’t keep my eyes open, can’t think straight tired. And I am not the only one. Little C woke up at 7:30 AM, went back to bed, woke up an hour later and is now back in bed sleeping again. Looks like some kind of bug may be hitting our house or maybe our long days in the sun are catching up to us. Either way, today is turning out to be a stay at home, watch movies and maybe bake something kind of day. It is also the day that landscaping starts at the Natural Urban Home and I have been jokingly refering to my street at #hysterialane on Twitter because of all the cutie patootie young men who are topless and working up a nice sweat in my yard and will be doing so for the next few weeks! If anyone wants...

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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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