Going Postal – Mailbox First World Problems
What's up with my weird New Jersey mailbox? Sorting through the options in mailboxes, a real first world problem.
Falling Into Home Improvement
Fall in Hampton Roads means the beach weather lingers but the home improvement itch kicks in anyway. On planning a kitchen renovation and the particular madness of a dysfunctional work triangle.
How to run errands with children
Five kids, one errand run, and a stranger who wanted to know my secret. The answer is boring: say no, stay consistent, and never over-explain to an eight-year-old.
Pool of Trouble
He deployed and left me with a pool I'd never maintained. It turned green. I sent him photos of everything except the backyard which contained the pool of trouble.
Been a long time
Well, I just noticed that it’s been an indecently long time since I have written. And I guess it’s high time I got it together and updated. Its down to the last weeks before my husband returns from this latest deployment. I am excited and nervous. Nervous that he has a mental image of what the house we moved into almost a year ago looks like, and that the expectations are high. There’s still a lot of unpacked boxes and odds and ends I haven’t quite figured out what to do with in this new house. It has been busy. It seems like every day a thousand things are on…
