We are heading into the first weekend after Easter, which means that it is time to kick off … The Great Coat Closet Remodel Project! {booming echo} For those of you who may not know, we have a closet under the stairs which I intend […]

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 December 2, 2014. This past Sunday, we enjoyed a particularly warm and balmy November day. It was overcast and slightly breezy, the perfect day to put the second coat of paint on the front of the house. Since we only […]

This post was originally published May 28, 2014. Before we could start painting the house, we had a couple of other emergency tasks that arose: the water heater stopped working, the dryer stopped working, and water from the bath tub supply line in the upstairs […]

This post was originally published May 27, 2014. As I mentioned in my very first post, we need to paint our house. Once upon a time, it was a lovely dark teal blue. It has since faded to a sort of teal-ish pea green color. […]