As you know, we did a lot of painting in the last 6 months.  To that end, I bought the paint chip sampler from Sherwin Williams to make it easier to pick colors at home.  I pulled all of the pink […]

Saturday morning.  Daddy being a good sport and playing Tripoly with the kids. Adorable kids… Mommy trying to pick up her camera and use it again…

Here we are…finally at the end.  All we have to do now is decorative touches, so the walls need some lovin’ yet.  I generally like to buy things piecemeal.  That way, I find the “right” pieces at the right prices.  […]

Heated tile floor?  Check Beautiful vanity?  Check Fantastic tile shower? Check Nicest bathroom in the house that will get used the least?  Check! Key features and how we done its: The floor has heated coils underneath that we had put […]

During our vacation break I kept busy.  When I wasn’t reading, I made a few items on my knifty knitter looms. Gray wool armwarmers using the flower loom.   About 35 rows in the round, then 7 back and forth for […]

I know, I know…I wasn’t going to buy clothes.  Didn’t take me long to break that resol…errr, goal, did it?? Well, you know how us women are.  We lose a little weight and we get all giddy and need to […]

I don’t know if it started on my birthday.  Probably before.  Yes, I remember.  It was when I kept getting bigger and not smaller.  When I moved clothes out of my closet or to the high shelves.  “Maybe someday I […]

She seems to be becoming a teenager before our very eyes.  Once there was a young toddler, full of sweetness.  Nary a naughty, nor haughty, word came to her lips.  Then she discovered these new words that the older girls […]

At the request of Rachel…here is a true story I hinted at on her blog awhile back… ***** Growing up I was the youngest of the four of us little hooligans.  My sister, Steph (2 years older), my cousin Cindy […]

This weekend I painted the new office (Anya’s old room) and Anya’s new room.  I also painted the entryway up to the upstairs hallway last weekend, the new textured spot in the bathroom where the wall was fixed and various […]

Last weekend we had a family post-Christmas gathering for my side of the family.  I am the youngest of 15 cousins.  When a few of my oldest cousins caught sight of our little Anya they were laughing.  “She is JUST […]

In the last few weeks, Kailan had been mentioning that his lower teeth were loose.  I didn’t pay too much attention, as I imagined they really weren’t all that loose.  I checked.  They were. I told him to watch when […]