If you stopped by yesterday, you read some of the particulars of our Basement Dwelling and got to see the preview of the house we’ll be moving into early next month: Isn’t that cute and fairly unassuming? Though it does have this awesome front porch that adds a lot to its character (and I’m looking forward…
When we bought our house just a little over 10 years ago, we knew we weren’t going to live here forever, because when we moved to Pennsylvania to spend quality time with my Father-in-Law during his final years, we knew that when the time came for him to cross over, we’d be making the trek…
Work. It’s literally a four-letter word, isn’t it? My first ‘job’ was when I was 12 years old. You guessed it, as a babysitter. The family that I babysat for was conveniently located just across the street from our house, so that made life easy for them and my parents with no one having to…
Two weeks from today will be Princess Nagger’s first official day of Summer Break. More evidence that time is flying by way too fast, as it seems like just yesterday she was heading off on that big yellow bus on the first day of school. le sigh. Growing up, the end of school meant road…
If I could ‘un-friend’ Mother Nature, I would. She’s been sending the Pacific Northwest an overabundance of snow, but completely bypassing us here in PA when we should have gotten at least one good snow day by now. Her menopausal hot flashes are still present – we’ve been having freezing temperatures for days, followed by…
Everyone has their own unique way of pronouncing things. Depending on where you grew up, where you live, where you’re from, how you learned, the English language is quite diverse. Or at least that’s how it seems. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, we referred to things like Pepsi, Coke, Root Beer, etc. as pop…
