Photo Shoot

There’s more pictures from our photo shoot the other day up on Leslie’s blog today.  And there are chunky baby thighs involved, so I’d say it’s worth your time to check it out.  

House Tour: Dining Room

For some reason it seemed really important that I paint at least one room in my house a very dark color, so for a long time our dining room was this very dark brown.  It took me three years to realize that it just never felt right.  It was SO dark in the wintertime.  Yuck. [...]

Today

My career as a stay at home mom has been governed, for the most part, by two phases.   A sucky phase, and then a good phase, and I am grateful for the good, I am, but sometimes it is very difficult to remember that the sucky parts end and that things will get better, [...]

Cover the Earth In Paint

I’m working on “styling” this bookshelf and it’s not going well.  Normally I am a fan of books on bookshelves and not a whole lot else, but we used to have this bookshelf crammed full of stuff and when I emptied it out so we could refinish the floors I thought it looked a lot [...]

Help Me Buy A Giant TV

I doubt it will shock anyone to hear that  I am already thinking about Christmas.  I like to have a plan, what can I say?  This year Mr. E and I are going to join the technological age and buy ourselves a giant flat screen tv for Christmas, because we are just that fricking romantic. [...]

Progress Report

I’d say most of the rooms in our house are about 75% done, but the baseboards and all the painting is going pretty slowly. We bought this china cabinet at Treasure Mart when we lived in Ann Arbor, in a tiny little two bedroom apartment.  We kept it in our living room, squeezed in between [...]

Book Review: State of Wonder

State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett Holy crap, now that was a BOOK. First of all, let me say that whoever designed this book cover and chose this title should be taken out and beaten upside the head.  Awful.  The only reasons I picked this up to read it is because after I scanned the [...]

House Tour: Hallway

So far, I’ve finished the entryway and the hallway of my house.  Seriously sad. Oh well. Most of the other rooms are getting closer, but these stupid baseboards are sucking my will to live. Anyway, let’s talk about the hallway. This is the hallway that runs from the dining room to the bathroom and to [...]

First Day of School

Last year, during All the Crying, his teacher said “Next year he’ll walk in here like an old pro.”  I know I looked at her like she was out of her mind, but there he was, this morning, walking into that classroom like he owned the place. Of course, he may be an old pro [...]

Pot

So my beloved blue Martha Stewart fake Le Creuset recently got recalled. It’s really too bad because it was a truly gorgeous color. Anyway, I would never even have known about this recall except that the other day I was heating up the pot in the oven to make No Knead bread, and unbeknownst to [...]