Mikaela was so excited about this confluence of two of her all-time favorite things (dressing up and candy) that she was almost vibrating this morning. Last year, she was just a generic “princess”. This year, she was specific. She decided that she was going trick-or-treating as Cinderella.
As I walked with her through the neighborhood, if [...]

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So I was catching up on some of the things that my TiVo had recorded for me while I was out of town and/or busily getting ready for the next trip last night, and imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon:

That’s right - circled in the bottom right-hand corner of this frame capture from last [...]

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While I was out of town, the remodelers got the new shower enclosure framed in and started putting up cement board (complete with new, un-mold-riddled, insulation behind it).  They also completed the new paint job.  It’s hard to see from the picture, but we’ve replaced the “Laura Ashley puked all over my bathroom walls” look [...]

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It’s official. The simple replacement of the carpet in the master bathroom with ceramic tile has become a full-blown bathroom remodel. The feature-creep started innocently enough. If we put new ceramic tile on the floor, then the tile in the shower and bathtub surround wouldn’t match. So we’d go ahead and [...]

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We’re in the midst of the weekend-long celebration of Mikaela’s 4th birthday. Yesterday, we brought a princess birthday cake (that’s cake #1) to the CDC to celebrate her birthday at school. Then, today, we had the kid birthday party at Eagle’s Gymnastics & Dance Center. The kids had a great time running [...]

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