First, let me say that I never expected this task to take so long. I thought I could just go to a few sites and get what we needed. Nor did I expect this post to be so long either. Along with getting our financial house in order, I have had on the “to do” [...]
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Emergency Preparedness Kit
Posted in family, household on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Habitat ReStore Rocks
Posted in household on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seriously, Adam and Dennis from the Winchester Habitat for Humanity ReStore just made me day…maybe even my week. I called to see if they would be interested in having the cabinets that have been taking up the ENTIRE garage for over a MONTH. He said, “I’ll be there in fifteen minutes.” Are you kidding…fifteen minutes. [...]
Posted in finances, household on July 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nursing a newborn is a tremendously time consuming task. Thankfully, a laptop and many trips to the library for books help me utilize this time. I have recently branched out and added the following blogs to my blogroll: Economist Mom Escape from Cubicle Nation Frugal Dad Wall Street Journal: Digits Wall Street Journal: The [...]
Student Loan
Posted in finances, household on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yippee!!! One student loan paid off!! (one to go) After some deliberation about six months ago, we decided to get really aggressive with our student loan payments. After years and years of paying, we were just sick and tired of having these payments. We actually reduced the amount of money being withdrawn into my retirement [...]
Get the Look
Posted in household on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Washington Post, July 23, 2009, Terri Sapienza White floors create a nice foundation for furniture to rest on Paint different rooms in variations of one color Freshen rooms with painted furniture Stay away from formal, fussy fabrics Group like items together In the kitchen, leave bare wall space for found objects When arranging furniture, start [...]
Decisions, Decisions
Posted in household on July 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because what you need to do days before having a baby is to decide to paint every interior wall in the house.
Nesting Part 2
Posted in household on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BEFORE The pantry before was driving me nuts. It actually doesn’t look that bad in the photo, but, again, things had just been thrown in there, and some things needed to be tossed. LOVE IT Everything has a place
Nesting
Posted in household on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Haven’t posted in ages but have been busy. Here are is one of the “nesting” projects: BEFORE This photo of the laundry honestly doesn’t capture the true mess of the room. Things had just been thrown in, and I can’t tell you how long that blue jacket on the dryer had been there. Ah, SerenitySeriously, [...]
Water Pressure
Posted in household on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Water Pressure…. something you don’t really put much thought into until it is gone. After about a week of standing flat up against the wall of the shower to have enough water to rinse out our hair, we figured out what was going on with the water pressure and were able to fix it for [...]
Organizing Toys
Posted in household on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From this…To this…. and this…Inspired by some blog reading lately on organizing and simplifying, LM and I tackled his toys yesterday. We drug them all into one place and sorted them by like types. The big, bulky items ended up in the toy box, and the smaller items (mainly cars, trains, automobiles) went into baskets [...]
