I feel like we could probably get a lot more done around here if Dave kept having every other week off of school because of bad weather. He was already supposed to have this Friday and Monday off for Presidents Day, but now he’s been home since Tuesday because of our big ice storm. So we’ve made some unexpected progress … Continue reading
There’s a lot of unintentional alliteration in my title right there. Uncrowded periods at Ikea are just about as elusive and valuable as at Disney World. Last year I hit upon the idea of giving Superbowl evening a try and met with great, uncrowded success. So this year we decided to go ahead and call it an annual tradition. … Continue reading
I hadn’t really expected to be writing a post about Abe’s new nursery (well, at least not until he moved in there); I didn’t think there was much to say about it because the plan was and is to pretty much move everything that’s in his nursery now (his current nursery is a sectioned off part of our master bedroom) … Continue reading
….because we don’t have one yet. First I’m going to tell you about one of the quick and easy projects I’ve been trying to do more of to help me cope with how agonizingly slow tiling is. Then I’ll whine about tiling some more. You are all welcome to leave after the non-whining part if you’d like ;). I’ve had these … Continue reading
This winter/spring is going to be very busy. Dave is tutoring five evenings a week on top of his job AND trying to fit in some freelance work at the same time. I have these four kids; three of them need to do school and one of them is an almost one year old. So of course we’ve decided that … Continue reading
A very long time ago, I posted a picture on Instagram of this light fixture: ….and then I said nothing else about it for months. Until now! It’s in my master bathroom. And, actually, it’s been there since Thanksgiving, but I’m just now getting around to telling you about it. It’s also still crooked, but I got tired of waiting … Continue reading
Finally! A post about actually accomplishing things in our master bathroom! There will be lots of these I suspect, because I don’t think we’re going to be finished with this room for about a hundred years. Or a few months anyway. Sometimes I think I should rename this blog, “The Nasty Carpet in Our Master Bathroom,” because I feel like … Continue reading
I’ve got a couple of looking back at 2013 posts coming up that will be all about me, me, ME! But before that, I wanted to post about a few of my favorite posts/projects from other bloggers over the past year. I kept it to five as an exercise in self restraint. I could, of course, have gone on and … Continue reading
I was planning to call this post, “A Tale of Two Christmas Trees,” but then Amber over at Wills Casa just wrote a post called “A Tale of Two Carraras,” so I thought I’d better go in a different direction. I ended up with a much more obscure literary reference. Anyone read The House Without a Christmas Tree? (that’s an affiliate link, … Continue reading
That’s right: in a less hectic month I would manage to split this into three separate posts and perhaps try to tie in an elaborate story about some party I went to once in college….but it’s December, so you get this three for the price of one post instead. (Incidentally it’s kind of KILLING me how I keep running out … Continue reading