I can’t think of a better way to finally update the blog than with pictures of the most adorable kittens in the world! (I went to a blogging conference once where someone said that if you stop blogging for awhile and come back, you shouldn’t say anything about it. But I guess we can already tell from the fact that I haven’t blogged … Continue reading
Oh, sunroom. You are kind of cool, but also a lot of trouble. When people see our house for the first time, they almost always say something about how much they like the sunroom, and my response is almost always, “yeah, just don’t look too close.” The sunroom is on the back of the house; both the kitchen and the … Continue reading
Hey, there was another Christmas! I never got around to doing a full house tour, even though I took some pictures. So here are a couple of the pictures: As you can see, my greatest seasonal accomplishment was securing the world’s fattest Christmas tree for the bay window in the den. When we were at the nursery picking it out, … Continue reading
Just a very quick post to show off my Halloween decorating, because, hey! I decorated for Halloween a little and it’s not like anyone’s coming over to the house lately to look at it, right? Right. The only thing I bought new this year is also THE BEST PURCHASE I’VE EVER MADE. Well. Anyway, I’m excited about it: I got … Continue reading
We’re in the middle of the very long process of replacing all of our upstairs carpet with bamboo. As in, it’s been going on for years now, and I’m not sure when it will be complete. But right now we’ve done three out of four bedrooms, so I feel ready to talk about the big question of how it’s all … Continue reading
Multitasking! It’s that magical time of year when I look back at last year’s list of house related plans, note that we didn’t get most of them done, and then promptly make another unrealistic of things we won’t get done for the new year! First, let’s look back on the things we did get done last year: We did finish the … Continue reading
Hey! Just one of those “I’m still here” kind of posts. Ari is now seven days out from the national deadline for picking a college, and….he still hasn’t picked one. That’s consuming an awful lot of everyone’s energy around here lately. At least mine and Dave’s and Ari’s. We spent spring break doing college visits (Macalester and St. Olaf and … Continue reading
I bet you guys keep thinking one of these days I’m going to fade away entirely, don’t you? But no, I keep coming back! Occasionally. Eventually maybe things will be less crazy around here and I’ll….nah, probably not anytime soon. Right now we’re deep in the heart of college decision season for Ari. He applied to ONE MILLION schools (alright. … Continue reading
Back in the summer, my mom gave me a set of Christmas dishes. I put them in the basement, and I waited patiently for December to come so I could break them out and use them. And use them we did….but I never got around to setting a Christmas table and blogging about it, because my dining room was still … Continue reading
Hey, it’s 2019! 2018 was one of those years where it seemed like we weren’t getting much done, but when I look back at my plan post from last year it turns out we did…not so bad. I mean, it helped that we didn’t have too many things on our list for the year. Let’s take a look, shall we? … Continue reading