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Today is the big day: BooMama’s 2008 Christmas Tour of Homes! In which many, many bloggers share pictures of their holiday decor and then ignore all the baking and wrapping and shopping they should be doing in order to virtually visit everyone’s homes. Sounds like a perfect day to me! So come on in, have [...]
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I stood in line at the grocery store the other day, noticing that many shopping carts contained turkeys. Mine did not. Instead, mine held gingersnaps, pumpkin puree, and plenty of cream cheese.
Cooking is not something I am passionate about. I make sure there is dinner available for my guys every night most nights. And I [...]
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We carefully gutted them….
We lovingly carved them…
We joyfully displayed them for all the world neighborhood to see…
And now?
And now?
And now, alas, we are left with carnage.
Pumpkin carnage.
Apparently, the local wildlife was only willing to admire our designs for so long before being overwhelmed with an intense desire to dismember and mutilate our pumpkins.
Farewell, orange friends.
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Way back in June, BooMama issued a challenge for all of us who needed to do a few things around the house…some accountability for a few things that, perhaps, I we had been procrastinating about.
At that time, we had just “finished” turning half of our basement from a concrete-walled cellar into some much-appreciated living and [...]
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Summer is not kind to the various closets and cabinets in my house. While I manage to keep the visible areas of the home somewhat picked up and cleaned, “things” and “stuff” seem to accumulate behind every closed door.
Twice in the last several weeks, the kids have had family-member babysitters while Chad and I attended [...]
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Note: What follows is a long and boring account of a run-in I had this week with an unpleasant occurrence in our basement. Some parts may be gross. Many parts are long-winded. So if you manage to stick with me, thank you. You are a truly dedicated blog-reader.
So, on Tuesday [...]
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Before we had kids, I had it all worked out. If we were planning to have people over for a “major event” (a.k.a. party or similar gathering) and I wanted to have the house in decent shape, I had a standard plan:
I’d clean the house two or three days before the event and then [...]
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I am not a great housekeeper. My husband always assures me that our house is comfortable and decent and a good place to come home to, but no one has ever accused my house of being spotless. I’ve failed at FlyLady more than once, I don’t have a regular weekly cleaning plan, and [...]
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We’re here. Home. Intact.
I’ll post pictures next week which will prove that, despite the screaming, and despite the flesh-wound, we had a nice time on our little trip.
For now, I’m looking at piles of bags. A suitcase, a super-sized diaper bag, a bag of books, a bag of dirty laundry. I don’t particularly feel like [...]
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This year was our Year of Finishing the Basement. We moved into our home a little more than three years ago, and from the beginning, we knew we wanted to turn half of the concrete block “cellar” into a finished “basement.” (Doesn’t “basement” sound so much nicer than “cellar”?)
2008 was the year to do [...]
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