Inside My Home: Katie's Room, the Kids'/Guest Bathroom, and Mason's Room (Again)

Hey y'all,

Today I'll be showing you the kids' end of the house, including their bathroom. The reason I can cram all of this into one tour is because 1.) you've already seen Mason's nursery, just in a different house; and 2.)let's be honest, bathrooms aren't much to look at. So we're just going to breeze right on by and you can (finally) see Katie Jo's cute little "English garden" room.

Coming in from the front room.

Katie's crib is the one that my dad picked out for me when he and my mom found out they were pregnant. Mason has the rocking chair.

The little fairy hooks were my sister's when we were kids.

Fun fact: Mason's closet is bigger than Katie's as this was originally a
guest room/office space and Mason has Jacob's old bedroom.
I'll probably hear about the poor planning on that when she's about 16.

 Katie's got the ultimate location for the horse-girl bedroom: that large window looks straight out to the pasture gate and the view will eventually encompass a barn.
Each morning when I go to get her up, she is standing at the foot of her crib, telling the horses "good morning" in turn. So cute.

The chair + dresser + bookshelf makes for a tight space; but the rocking chair is soon to
be replaced with a bean-bag/something more kid friendly as we swap our little girl into
a toddler bed. Be still my heart.

The Beatrix Potter print was from my nursery as well. The rocking chair is from my youngest sister's nursery and has a patch-work- like fabric that has small pictures from "Hey Diddle Diddle". Super cute. Katie's room implements a lot of our wedding decor -- a lot of lavender and rustic which goes great with Beatrix Potter to make a sort of off the cuff "English cottage garden" theme. 

My husband's grandfather built that bookshelf for hubby's room when he was a kid. I love using homemade pieces like it; and wood-working happens to be a big hobby in my husband's family.

Katie's was the first door on the right; next would be the guest/kids bathroom door, leaving Mason's room as the third and final door in this short hallway.

This bookshelf acts as a linen cupboard and also encases the bigger-kids books that I can't wait to begin as read-alouds with my kids. We've got some classics, as you'll see later.

Also, note how cheap I am using one monitor just in the kids' hallway instead of one in each bedroom.
Eh. The volume probably is not even turned on in the master. It still flashes when they fuss, which has always been enough to wake me up.








Tada -- the bathroom.

It's a little narrow.

See? Not exciting.

I will disclose that the art on the wall seen in the mirror is a "log cabin on a lake" painting that I did as a puzzle to hang as art in our first bathroom, back when I was very pregnant with Katie. It helped me keep a vision for the bathroom that was completely gutted at the time. (We had only the one bathroom at the time. We were renovating it in October before Katie arrived because it had structural and mold issues. Our fall hit early that year and our house was already not heated, and then we had a gaping hole in the floor of our bathroom where the men were having to replace many of the support beams under the house. I remember constantly texting Jacob's grandmother who lived across the street and driving the four-wheeler over to her house to use the restroom. Fun times.)

Mason's room!! What a cutie.

That rug was actually bought for our dining room in the old farm house.
And there's that rocking chair that goes with Katie's crib.

That's an extra dining chair. I try to keep the extras strategically
placed around the house so they're easily retrieved when we
have family and friends over.

So my wonderful Aunt From Up North has two young boys. She blessed us with that wonderful rug on our back porch; and she recently passed an entire twin bedroom set our way. That's where Mason's two magnificent dressers came from.

Love you, Jess. <3

Here's those classics I promised a view of.

Also, Jacob's grandmother likes to paint and she created that small but wonderful piece of artwork that works perfectly in my main hallway. She inspires me every day.

Really all we have left in the tour of Cedar Creek as it currently stands would be the master area.

 We can get to that another day. 

I'm going to leave you with a recipe. A really simple recipe.

My husband and I love us some buffalo wings. He's a bone-out kinda guy while I'll eat anything. My mother-in-law and I were just talking about how $$ buying wings can be. 

Well, if bone-out is what you like, then boy do I have a solution for you:

1. Cut up one thawed chicken breast into bite-sized pieces (if you got yourself a sharp steak knife and ten seconds, then you got this) (also note: one breast feeds two people around these parts; so obviously cut however much you need).

2. Put the chicken in a ziploc baggie (you can get away with a quart-sized bag for one breast) and cover it in buttermilk to soak for at least 30 minutes; but obviously when you're marinating, the longer the tastier.

3. Mix bread crumbs with a pinch each of paprika and garlic powder; then add 2.5 teaspoons of  salt and 3/4 teaspoon  of pepper. (Side note: This is for baking the chicken bites, which makes it less prep in the kitchen. I'm all about fast and least messy; but if you are planning on frying these bad boys like any good Southern cook, then nix the breadcrumbs and add the seasonings to roughly two cups of flour (don't forget the egg! If you've never fried before, you usually dunk the bites in flour, then egg, then flour again). 

(I've used all the seasonings + regular bread crumbs, and I've also just used Italian breadcrumbs without the seasonings. I would probably just add a little salt and pepper to the Italian; but it does make it that much quicker.)

4. After the chicken has marinated, take each bite and toss it in the breadcrumbs, then lay it on a baking sheet. Bake the "wings" at about 400 for roughly 20 minutes. Sometimes I flip them halfway through, sometimes I don't.

Your result will be super juicy, really tender boneless chicken wings better than you'll get anywhere. Especially depending on the sauce you use. Feel free to get creative and make a homemade sauce; I've just been using what I have in the fridge as far as pre-made sauce goes. 

You're welcome.