This weekend I went back home, to where I grew up, for four days with my husband. It was a rare treat that offered us days of no running around, no scheduled activities and just relaxation. It was filled with a fourth of July spent celebrating family and friends. It was different than it has been in the [...]
Category: Home Building
The Good and the Bad on Building a New Home
It is always interesting the comments I receive from people when they hear the Husband and I are building a new home. You can usually sort out the people who comment into two groups: those who have built and those who haven't. The ones who have built look at you and ask what phase you [...]
Inside These Walls
We were suppose to move out of this apartment and into the new house mid-May. Well, here it is late June and we are still in the apartment looking at an early August move. After nine years of being in this place I'm out of patience and I don't feel like I can tolerate one [...]
This was our start to summer
This weekend was the weekend I have been waiting for all winter. The weekend where I could FINALLY put away the winter clothes and stretch out in the sun. I live for this, summertime. I live for the long days and warm nights. I really have no idea why I continue to live in a [...]
Deciding How to Build
If you have ever built a home then you know the crazy amount of options that are available to you. Before I started I watched several of my friends go through the same process. It is easy to go over on your limit, adding one more item here and another here and then a few [...]
Simplifying our Life
We don't have a close date on our new house yet but we know it should be sometime in June. I have a garage sale planned for May and have started that pile which has turned into an entire room full. Nine years ago I moved in here with my ex-husband thinking we would be [...]
Sometimes it takes wine to make decisions
It seems my Husband and I were off this week. I have been snappy, he has been tired, the normal ebb and flow to our days seemed to be derailed and we were both going to bed annoyed. There has been no real reason for it, we can just blame it on the full moon. [...]
Dear Me, Two Years from Now
Dear Me, two years from now, You wrote a similar letter, two years ago, to yourself and you certainly didn't regret it so here we go again. It doesn't seem like two years goes that quickly but it truly does. This letter proves to be more difficult than the last because you are rather content [...]
Through My Mistakes 