For months I have been looking for a paint color for the top half of the dining room. White walls just aren't our thing, but I also don't want to go back to red. It was a great 9 year run with the red, but I am ready for a lighter and brighter dining experiance. Months ago I found a great paintable wallpaper on Craigslist - very granny chic ( have I mentioned this before? I can't remember. Let's ... View Post
it’s almost time
Labor is under way. The time has almost come. I am not ready. Am I ever? How can I be. As my father said: This mess is a place. So here we are, in this mess, in this place. As we are. So come now Jesus, come. ... View Post
Interwebs meet Hank, Hank meet the interwebs
This is Hank. He is my get-well present from my Sweet Man. I wove him. (That is love in toddler speak.) I am in a silly mood because of my two extra days of Thanksgiving break. A main water line broke downtown today, causing flooding around our school and damage to the streets. This means that there is no school or work for me and the boys until the Monday after Thanksgiving. Do you have images ... View Post
Before Advent, Thanksgiving
Before we can have Christmas we have to travel through Advent (which is all about the anticipation, the waiting, the not knowing, the hoping) and before we can enter Advent, we have to wrap up the previous year by celebrating Christ the King (or Stir-Up) Sunday (if you follow the liturgical calendar, which perhaps you don't, but still the feast exist) and before any of that, we in America, have ... View Post
Insta-Spooky – Brief Halloweenie Recap
It twas a dark and spooky night... And 42 of our closest friends came over to celebrate All Hallows Eve with us...It was such a fright! Ok, well it wasn't really a fright. It was more like too much fun. And all those folks, well they didn't all come at once. There was some ebbing and flowing to the whole night. And the kids and many of the menfolk stayed outside for most of the ... View Post
make do (and make lovely) – fall themed mantle
Things around here are slowly coming back together. After a week in bed with a nasty something or another I am finally upright and back at it. Today I threw together a quick fall themed mantle out of what I had on hand. It will probably change again soon, or whenever I get the Rubbermaid bin of fall decor out of the attic. Right now just getting the laundry done is taking center ... View Post
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