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So far so good on the summer hols thing. Both the kiddos are done with their school year now (Sweetpea says goodbye to Elementary School – how can that have happened already?), Munchkin is not climbing the walls (although he can frequently be seen circling the back yard in his drive-on tractor), and I seem to [...]

She came, she saw, she…

Well, she didn’t put me to work, but we got a lot of things ironed out. It was Visit #1 with Ms Fix-It, my DIY mentor/whipcracker, the lady brought in to help me check off oh-so-many items on my remodeling to-do list. I had laid out my tool set in readiness. Munchkin excitedly greeted her at the [...]

In mourning

Oh, I am in mourning. See that sofa? I fell for it. Here is why: 1. It is my colour (golds and dark reds predominate in my living room). 2. It is my era – circa 1960, so perfect for this here ’50s ranch house we live in. 3. It is a sectional. I have been [...]

A new day

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” – Albert Einstein We have been in this house for five years, three months and two days. So long that the painting I did when we first moved in now needs sprucing up. What was to be a glorious kitchen ceiling (it [...]

Summer fun – can it be done?

Seems I’m not the only one left disappointed by their Mother’s Day. Friends, blog followers, work colleagues… they all told stories of Hubbys who had uttered similar remarks to mine (“It’s all a big Hallmark holiday” vies for first place with my Hubby’s “Anyway, you’re not my mother” comment). Sigh. Big, big sigh. Shall we [...]