Yesterday, we had the kickoff meeting for the spring soccer season, which just happened to be right across the street from Southern Thrift, my new favorite thrift store. So after the meeting, we popped in to the store to find some track pants for my […]

For nearly a year now, we have had a large hole in our living room ceiling, right over the front door. Before the large hole, it was a large hole covered roughly with a piece of bare ceiling board. And before that is was a […]

This post was originally published December 31, 2014. As we count down the final hours of 2014, some will be happy to see the old year end. For me and for my family, however, 2014 was a very good year. So many positive things happened […]

This post was originally published May 4, 2014. If you have been following my story, you know that my new mantra is “Identify issues and find ways to address them”. With this in mind, I decided that I would start with a small, simple job […]

This post was originally published April 27, 2014. With the bathroom now a cheerful shade of blue, we knew that we wanted to continue to improve it, but we were unsure just what we wanted to do. Flash forward a few years (yes, years) to […]

This post was originally published March 26, 2014. Though I have not posted in a month, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy! As will soon become apparent … After weighing the various outstanding projects, and taking into consideration the weather, which has not […]