We Are Breathing With Two Nostrils Now
We are breathing with two nostrils now. That is my new way of saying “We are cooking with gas now!” And we are. Four burners and a griddle, a broiler and an oven, but no vent hood for the days … Continued
Fixer-Upper-Roller-Coaster (Part 2, the large appliance edition)
Let’s see, where did we leave off? Oh yes, after spending an intense month-and a half doing more demolition work than reconstruction work, we had just woken up in our 112-year-old house for the first time (Read that blog post … Continued
Fixer-Upper-Roller-Coaster (Part 1)
(In which I summarize two months of crazy into a long list of emotional thoughts.) There are actually a lot of houses in our price range! There are a lot of houses in our price range that should be torn … Continued
33 Things to Love About an Old House
There are, of course, things to despise about an old house, as I may detail in some later post. Hey, a bunch of these “things to love” are just cleverly-disguised banes of my existence. But some of these little details are truly charming. I would … Continued
Storage to Steps
I’m sitting on the steps in what used to be the pantry that used to be steps. I convinced myself, and then Ryan, that we could use the steps more than we could use the storage. So two days ago … Continued
First week.
I guess it’s only been a week since we bought the house, but it seems like ripping paneling off of walls and cleaning grease off of kitchen shelves have been a part of my life for a long time. Taking … Continued
Worth waking a toddler from her nap
There are few things worthy of waking a toddler from her nap, but one of the few might be fetching your down payment from the bank before the bank closes the day before The Closing. So Daughter woke up to … Continued
Deciding to buy a house (and deciding on a house)
Sometime this summer, Daughter will move into the fourth home of her two-year-old life. And she likely won’t move again for quite a while (at least relatively speaking) because… …we’re buying a house! So, the outside looks pretty sweet. As … Continued
Getting Rid of Shoes
These shoes are in the dump now. The crocs were worn through to the ground; the hiking shoes were falling apart at the seams. I had walked many miles in those shoes. The hiking shoes were the ones I wore … Continued