The beautiful, light wood floors in our home are another eye-catching feature we liked immediately. In our first home, MJ and I tore up carpet and heinous linoleum and laid laminate flooring. It was a challenging project and we learned a lot and we loved the outcome. It was one of those game-changer renovations and we’ve been… Read More
Halloween is this week and I’ve gotten as far as laying out the fabric for the children’s costumes on the floor. Eek! However, we did make monster s’mores with a couple of neighbor kids last week so I’m not totally failing this holiday. There were lots of giggles and “Look at my monster’s face!” yelps and many… Read More
From the first walk through, we have deep love for the windows in our now home. Having never lived in a single-family home, MJ and I are ecstatic to have windows on ALL SIDES OF THE HOUSE!! Big beautiful windows that allow lots of natural light, which is my favorite, and with that, I can get… Read More
We got ‘Boo-ed’ this week. Twice, actually. I didn’t know what getting ‘Boo-ed’ was, I mean, the Halloween version. If you haven’t heard of it, here’s the deal: friendly neighbors, under the dark of before-bedtime night, ring the doorbell and run, leaving a bag of sweets, a poem and a paper ghost. Halloween trickery indeed.… Read More
This post is sponsored by U.S. Bank. All opinions, as always, are my own. As MJ and I contemplate home improvement projects in our new home and while I am excited and eager to move forward, I have a niggling anxiety about our final decisions. What if we paint the walls, really don’t like it… Read More