A week to clean their room

It’s taken my boys a week to clean their room. It wasn’t messy until they had a friend over. It looks as though they took all their Legos and all their Lincoln Logs and threw them all over the room. They took Cody’s tool bench apart and the pieces for it are everywhere.
This seems [...]

Lighting the Landscape

When we bought this house one of the things we admired was the pretty outdoor lighting it had in both the front and the backyard. Our old house had none of this and it’s amazing how much ambiance and atmosphere a few outdoor lights can add to a home.
Shortly after we moved in we discovered [...]

Anyone want to fix our faucets?

It’s funny… now that I have a job, all of a sudden there’s a billion things I want to get done around the house. Many of these things could have been taken care of when I wasn’t working. But it was easy to put it off since I had all the time in the world, [...]

Gas Leak

It got chilly last night, down in the 40’s. We haven’t had to fire up our gas furnace yet this fall since it’s been fairly warm (upper 50’s - lower 60’s) during the day and this house is pretty air-tight. We also get a lot of sun with all our windows so it helps keep [...]

Bullet Sunday #6

I don’t feel old enough to be the stepmother of someone who is graduating from high school. But alas, I am. Kayla will graduate THIS year! Her class is doing a fund raise for their senior party. If you’d like to purchase a poinsettia and you live locally, I’m sure she’d appreciate it!

I have no [...]

Thursday Thirteen #9 - Favorite Foods

Thirteen of my Favorite Foods
I’m hungry. And I’ve got an awesome beef stroganoff recipe brewing in the crockpot. It smells divine and it’s making my mouth water. Lets pretend I’m NOT diabetic and can eat whatever I want. So, in honor of my hunger and my drooling, here’s thirteen of my favorite foods (in no [...]

Trees, Fall, Leaves, Oh my!

This is our first fall in this home. We moved in here in February. We knew there was a lot of trees but sheesh. Pretty soon our weekends are going to go something like, rake, eat, rake, shop, rake, go to game/practice, rake, breath, rake. There are a LOT of trees on this property and [...]