Month: January 2010
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What does your next house look like?
Our house has been on the market for 12 days and we've had 8 showings. I'm hopeful but not unrealistic. This is not a good real estate market and it may take awhile to sell. We know that the first 5 showings will probably not yield an offer but we haven't heard back anything about the last… Read more
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How to survive the winter blues. Part II
Part I is here. If you haven't read it, this post won't make much sense. 🙂 Now that you've gotten yourself a few minutes to yourself, the key is to USE that time. It's easy to think that playing on the computer or catching a few minutes of Oprah will help you wind down. And… Read more
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How to survive the winter blues. Part I
My quiet time spot. Let me preface this by saying that the title of this blog post is a bit misleading. I don't really know how to survive the winter blues. I just know what's working for me some of the time. It might not work tomorrow. Today, though, it's working. So, that being… Read more
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Not so patiently hoping for patience.
(The kids' playhouse custom-built by Tom) Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. ~John Quincy Adams As I mentioned yesterday, our house is finally on the market. We listed it on Monday, it went online on Tuesday, the sign went in the yard on Wednesday and we had… Read more
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Home Renovations: Part 5
Finally, finally finishing posting these photos of our big renovation project! And this post has taken me almost a week to write because we've had 5 showings of our house in the first week it's been on the market. 🙂 The den/family room was a room that we weren't sure about renovating. We knew the… Read more
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Place holder
This is just a place holder blog post. Kind of a "save the date" blog post. I've been getting lots of flak from my husband for not updating the blog (hello!!!! dude, you've had my laptop for the past 3 days and my photos are on my laptop – you cannot blog without photos!!) and… Read more
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A great craft idea for the whole family
Project 365 projects are everywhere these days! Flickr has entire galleries and tons of groups devoted to photos taken every day of the year, most every scrapbook store (traditional and digital) is now offering Project 365 ideas and you can find ideas everywhere. But, I'm doing mine differently. I'm using an old Project 365 kit… Read more
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Typepad is copying me
Well, this is interesting. This is my blog. The photo in the header was taken by me. It's a photo of flowers in my backyard that I cropped, photoshopped and made into a banner. I chose the gray background and designed the entire blog from scratch. Months and months ago. Just for shits and… Read more
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I am a saint
My husband has a huge trial coming up in a week so the kids and I have spent a lot of time together lately while he works every waking moment. He's been working late and all day on the weekends, too. So, today found me at Super Target with all three kids. Grocery shopping on… Read more
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January 7
It's my birthday today. Which would ordinarily be a good thing. But, you see, my husband is a die-hard University of Texas fan. No, that's wrong. He's a UT fanatic. Right down to his UT underwear. Yep, I said it. He wears UT underwear. Sorry, babe, but some things just come out on the blog.… Read more