Pardon me while I post four hundred pictures of my (sniff, sniff) ONE YEAR OLD BABY! Remember this? This happened about 5 minutes ago: And now somehow he’s morphed from that tiny, wrinkly alien into this fine little human: Can you tell I have no idea what to do with his hair these days? It sticks straight up in back, … Continue reading
Abe is ONE today! This is nearly impossible, and yet it is totally and completely true. The post with his one year pictures and all the gushy stuff about how he’s unbearably adorable and charming will be coming up next week. And his party’s not until next weekend, so there’ll be more about that in the near future, too. But … 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
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
It’s nine months (to the day!) since I posted about the coat rack and bench that we made for our foyer: A couple of people have asked me if it looks the same now as it did back then. Hahahahahahahaha! It does not. (Really, I’d feel pretty silly if we made that big old coat rack with all those hooks … 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
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