The photo above might not look like much to you, but to me it is full of potential… Potential walls! This ‘build your own house’ gig is a lesson in patience for me. It takes a long time to double the size of your house when you are doing pretty much all of it yourself, […]
Tackling My To Do List.
After taking a week off writing work last week I managed to tick off two things on my To Do list. Yep, you read that right. TWO THINGS! I had plans to knock off the majority of the items on my long list so that I wouldn’t have them hanging over my head as we […]
Toy Rotation.
We have several small ‘play spaces’ tucked into nooks and crannies of our little old house. There is a little table tucked in near our big dining table, an easel that often lives at one end of our tiny kitchen, and a corner of our living room that is dedicated to toys. We don’t have […]
Writing Desks, Clutter, and Kids, Oh My!
There is something about the change of seasons that makes me want to change things as well. So yesterday, as The Father Figure worked on the new bit of the house, I decided it was high time the to make some changes in the old bit also. No more slacking off, no more ‘It’s not […]
Burning Question – What Would You Have in your Dream Kitchen?
It both amuses me and frustrates me that I’ve blogged this very question before, 3 years before! Yes, it was three years ago that we first spoke to an architect and took the first, very tentative, steps towards our renovation. If I knew then that we would still not be even close to finished three […]
Ah the Insanity.
Sometimes the insanity of what we are doing really hits me. We really are building our home, ourselves. That doesn’t mean we are ‘project managing’ like all the cashed up Brits on Grand Designs who have loads of contractors running around doing to actual building bits while they swan around in hard hats and argue […]
Mouse Hunt
I had this great post written in my head for today. It was going to be interesting and informative and amusing…. but I don’t have time to write it now, because that image above is how my living and dining rooms (ie my whole house) looks right now… You see when we got home from […]
Winter Cleaning.
The lure of a fresh new start at the change of seasons is what gets me up off my bum and into the cleaning mood at the start of spring. But it’s the middle of winter here right now. Today is cold and windy and it feels a long way from the motivation of spring. […]