Category: home
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embracing my inner dane
Greetings, my long lost poppets! It seems so long since last we met. Spring is afoot here finally. We actually enjoyed our pre-Easter dinner cocktails OUTSIDE, if you can believe it. In Seattle, that is a very uncommon state of affairs in early April. And April marks another important date in this household. April 19th…
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the good fight
I’ve written about the Boy Child here and here. He is now in the 5th grade and next year will be in middle school. He’s never had it easy in school – it just doesn’t come as naturally to him as the Girl Child. It’s always a little bit harder, like it just doesn’t quite…
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minor home improvement
There are puh-lenty of large projects to be done around this place, the sort that are weather-dependent so you can lug piles of stuff outside or paint. Sometimes the best kind are the ones you don’t plan or even really know you need. Our dining room is just an offshoot of our living room. There…
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ba-bling ba-bling
First of all. This is a bit of a ridiculous thing to post, kind of like how to make toast or something. But I am posting it anyway. Also, my Facebook status this morning had to do with my current and utter lack of motivation. Let me make it clear that I bought the supplies…
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pinteresting
It’s sweeping the nation, nay, the world, you know. This Pinterest thing. I know some of you already are on board. “On board” – ha, that’s funny. It’s basically a visual way to collect your favorite things online – a virtual bulletin board. Any time you see a photo of something, you “pin” it to…
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holidaze
Post Christmas Debriefing: The littles in our house, being 13 and 11, have been questioning lately. Not the boy/girl kind of questioning, but the Santa-Kind-of-Questioning. Especially the 11 year old. I’d say most of his friends have firmly crossed over, but he is hedging his bets. He has asked several times “Is Santa real?’.…
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home
Fall around here usually means rearranging for more guests indoors, which is no mean feat. The options for moving furniture around in a house this small are limited, but I’d go nuts if we didn’t change things up somehow. Since we’re hosting the first monthly Dinner Club next Saturday, and Nerdpocalypse at the end of…
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twenty
I don’t know who will get a bigger kick out of this – those of you who were there, or those of you who weren’t. Enjoy. Happy Anniversary, hon.
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a new leaf
School starts in these parts the Wednesday after Labor Day. That means this is my last free summer weekend, since we head to SF for Labor Day. Given that we didn’t really have summer weather here until recently, I am not ready for summer to be over. The start of the school year almost seems…
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‘n sync
By this time in my life, I thought I’d have things pretty well figured out. Everything would run seamlessly. Nice house, decent job, well-dressed and behaved kids, money in the bank, the whole nine yards proper. Like on TV. Like grown-ups do. Since the real grown-ups haven’t appeared to call my bluff, I guess this…
foible and folly 