The kitchen floors were replaced today. Or I should say over-placed, since the original linoleum is now just underneath the new stuff. I celebrated by making dinner from scratch (clam chowder) and chocolate cakes with Will. Later this week we will also say goodbye to the royal blue counters! I was feeling pretty good about […]
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Monthly Archives: October 2009One of the things we were very excited about in our move was to get away from our neighbors. There’s the homeschooling family of 7 across from us whose children are overly fond of dressing up in chamo and playing militia up and down the street, the teenage girl next door who, while an amazing […] For the last week, our thermostat has been set to 65 degrees, all day long. I first noticed that this might be a problem when Will voluntarily began wearing clothes. The next hint was when Nic said he couldn’t wait to run some errands so he could “go sit in the car where it’s warm.” […] This is why we moved out here. It is gorgeous. We came home last night to find our babysitter wearing two pairs of pants and about four shirts, huddled underneath a blanket with a towel shoved in a window crack. So cold, yes. But gorgeous, also yes. I had a trash the dress shoot scheduled […] Sometimes I look in my fridge and freezer and pantry and think “surely there’s a dinner to be made here.” And if I was a mom in 1943, I would know how to take that can of pinapple chunks, the frozen log of sausage, and the half top of stovetop stuffing and not only make […] I can’t pinpoint exactly where it started, but I got sucked into the dream of an old fashioned better life. Animal Vegetable Miracle, The Gentle Art of Domesticity, the constant discovery of the new and terrifying ways that we’re poisoning our children with pesticides and Happy Meals and vaccines and toys from China all fueled […] |
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