It’s been a quiet week around here. And by here I mean here, not here as in my house because O boy would that be far from the truth. No, here here there has been the constant sound of sheetrock saws cutting holes in ceilings for recessed lighting and in walls for outlets. There has been a pretty [...]
We passed our final inspection on the upstairs remodel last week (!!!!!!!), which means that we spent the weekend knee deep in our next project, naturally. I referred to the now-finished ‘upstairs upgrade’ as the ‘house project of the decade’, but clearly I was wrong because here we are in the same decade and boy, [...]
Our boys are with Nana and Papa tonight so naturally we are going out to dinner renting a chick-flick visiting the museum of modern art cutting trim and installing built-in shelves in our living room. A-like-so: The idea and bones came from the IKEA (where else?) Billy bookshelves, which we bought several of this past weekend [...]
It’s 5:00 on a week night. Do you know where O My Family is? Why, they’re at the hardware store of course. And no, they didn’t get a babysitter this time, they brought the kiddo along. And that store? Well, it’s not for the faint of heart. There are no helpful folks in orange aprons [...]
