The weekend was sort of a series of small disasters, but it’s all over now (I’m writing this on Sunday night, and I have a glass of wine, so things are looking up). But I’m going to focus on the positive. Positive things include: 1. Backer board is all mortared and screwed down now, and getting this done did not quite … Continue reading
Given that I thought we did a pretty good job of knocking out projects around here in 2013, it was a little startling how easy it was to make a list of MORE things to do in 2014. So easy, in fact, that I abandoned the idea of sticking with ten like last year and decided to go big with … Continue reading
Last year right about this time I wrote out a list of plans/goals for 2013, and now the day of reckoning has come! I wrote a post back in July to check in on our progress….and, looking back at that, it seems that the first half of the year was more productive than the last. It’s kind of startling how … Continue reading
2013 was a busy year for us in a lot of ways. Like we had that baby. And we made a fair bit of progress on this house. Without the first thing we could have done even better on the second thing, but we love him anyway. Since the blog changed URLs part way through the year, it would be … Continue reading
Christmas was lovely. We’re very lucky to have so many people–family and friends–to celebrate with (although we also wish Dave’s parents and sister/family were closer, because we’re greedy and we need MORE people to hang out with). I just went back and looked at last year’s day after Christmas post, and it was about making curtains for the nursery. Wow. … Continue reading
Off to do family stuff for the next couple of days, so here’s our card that we ordered from Shutterfly as promised. Only not really, because I couldn’t figure out how to get just the image from Shutterfly without including a Shutterfly commercial with it. So I put the words on the picture all by myself instead. Which makes … Continue reading
1. Big day for my little blog yesterday, as Abe’s toy cabinet was featured on Apartment Therapy. Seeing that a bunch of new people were looking at my house tour page reminded me that….I really need to update my house tour page. So, if you are here from Apartment Therapy (yay!)….my house tour page is not so updated. If you … Continue reading
In an unusual turn of events in these days of the sleepless, mobile baby, I have SO MUCH to post about this week that I’m going to toss in a rare Tuesday post….a round-up of a couple of things that don’t need their own post and one that could carry one but doesn’t get to because there’s so much going … Continue reading
Do you know one of the problems with having four kids? They tend to have four birthdays, too. Ari and Milo both have close together early summer birthdays, and Gus and Abe both have winter birthdays….all crammed in together with Christmas and Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Gus is early December, and Abe is the middle of January, so I’m not … Continue reading
Update: See my review of Zenni Optical, my next attempt at cheap glasses ordering, here The title might be kind of a spoiler here. Let me say first that I am not an especially difficult to please consumer. I never send food back at restaurants. I’m terrible at haggling over prices at garage sales. And, in my 14 months of … Continue reading