White Gables Blog

Today, as I sit by Violet’s hospital bed and hear the hum of machines, the beeping of alarms, the quiet conversations between nurses, I feel so very grateful… Grateful for the wonderful medical care that we have been blessed with. I often wonder what would have happened to Violet 100 years ago when they didn’t […]

The past few days have been such a whirlwind – hopefully what I write makes sense! I feel like my brain is on autopilot, and I’m just going through the motions of life. Doing what I need to do to get through these days. Violet was not improving at the hospital and the doctors were […]

This is what our doctor told me just after he said that we would most likely be spending Christmas in the hospital. And, unfortunately, that’s what happened. Early last week baby Violet had a stuffy nose that progressed to a cough, then on Thursday evening she had a very high fever. Our doctor met me […]

It has been chills-bills around these parts lately, so we’ve mostly just stayed inside in our pj’s all.day.long. Is that wrong? I don’t think so. We’ve coaxed more smiles out of this messy-haired love machine… I could seriously just munch on her all day long. Avery’s been a good helper as you can see. She […]

New discovery: Getting 6 straight hours of sleep actually makes me a pleasant person to be around! Wow, I feel like a new woman thanks to the hubs getting up during the night to feed the baby a bottle! Yay for helpful husbands!! Someone requested an art piece similar to the canvas art on Red […]

In between diaper changes, feeding the baby every 3 hours, mopping up the bathroom floor that got covered with poopy toilet water thanks to a certain little boy who threw a wad of wipes into the toilet and another certain little girl who flushed when she shouldn’t have, breaking up sibling squabbles every 10 minutes, […]

I wasn’t sure how much Christmas decorating I would be able to do this year, but the bug hit and I couldn’t resist! Things that used to take me a day to do now take me a week, and I’ve gotten used to the idea that having an almost-two year old boy in the house […]

First of all, I can’t take credit for coming up with this project. I totally stole the idea from Lisa Leonard’s blog. I bought this doormat for $6.97 from Walmart: I printed out lettering for the word “joy” using the font American Typewriter and I printed it onto thicker coverstock paper. Then I used a […]

So Miss Violet is now one month old. How time flies! Honestly, it’s been a very challenging month. She still is a very good, content baby, but the older two kiddos wear me out at times! Jack has decided that he is now a two-year-old and loves to tear the house apart. And Avery has […]

When we decided to renovate a storage room in our house that looked like this: and turn it into a nursery that now looks like this: we discovered that the room was directly above our laundry room. Hubs came up with the fantastic idea to install a laundry chute so that I don’t need to […]

We shove in as much food as we can possibly fit into our mouths. And we do it quick before someone stops us. Especially if it’s ice cream. Because that is the sacred food of the Weaver house. Hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving! Our holiday was jammed packed full of family, food, shopping, friends, […]

Cuz sometimes a creative distraction is just plain necessary when living in a house with a newborn, an almost-2 year old, and a 4 year old! I had dragged this old rocking chair home from an antiques mall in Ohio a few months ago. There was something about it that I loved despite the fact […]