I have been in overdrive lately. It is not nesting per se, but just a lot of crap I have been putting off for months. Everything is catch...

We have a small house. A very small house. I would love to move, but unfortunately we would never be able to make a profit off of this hou...

Do you ever look around your house, and wonder how in the hell you have accumulated so many material possessions? My house is so small and ...

I go through periods where I sit around the house, doing nothing productive for months on end. Then one morning I wake up and want to get s...

I like schedules and routines. Although I do tend to slack off sometimes, if I have a routine established, I am much more likely to get stu...

After the horribly hot and dry summer we have had, our garden is finally starting to produce actual food! I am a little disappointed that ...

Today started out great. I took the kids blueberry picking. Then we ate some custard. Next we went swimming at the lake (and I even remem...

I recently came to the realization that I am an introvert. It is not that I am shy or self absorbed, I just like time to be alone with my t...

Living in an older home is tough. My house was built around the 1950's. It is a small ranch house, typical of that era. It is kind of...

The living room is finally finished. I am still working on the hallway, which will probably take at least 12 years to complete. It is the ...

Painting is a bitch. I always dive into painting projects, thinking that it will be fun! And I will feel productive! And it will only tak...

This is going to be a light week for me in the blog world. I am repainting my living room. And my husband is out of town. Apparently, I l...

I want to show you the finished play area in our backyard. Why am I still talking about this boring topic? Because this is by far my favor...

We went from this... To this... And finally to this... We still have more work to do. We need to enclose the space and lay down wood chips....

After months of waiting, it is finally done. Our pretty new fence has been installed. Here are the lovely before and after photos... Befor...

I forgot to take pictures before I started. Sorry! After an hour of painting, I finally remembered to snap a few pictures. So without fur...

I have been feeling an overwhelming urge to get things done lately - like painting interior doors, organizing baby clothes, and cleaning bat...

This was the shed that the former homeowners left for us. Nice - right? They were classy people. My husband dismantled this old thing las...

I am ashamed of my last post. I am a horrible person. Let's pretend that I am not the world's biggest asshole, and talk about my re...