98% housework

So I was complaining on Facebook the other day about how I spend 98% of my day doing housework. Being home every day with a two-year-old and a four-year-old and I don’t know, it just explodes. Entropy, chaos.
Legos everywhere, crumbs on the coffee table, marker on the couch*, small bits of paper under the dining […]

Happy housiversary!

We moved in to our new house the week of Halloween 2008, which means we’ve now been here a whole year. We’ve seen all four seasons and every major holiday, memorized the quickest routes to school and work and grocery store, met a bunch of super people and started our own traditions.
It makes me a […]

Treasure to me, trash to you

Can you believe people leave beauties like this by the side of the road?
Tomorrow is Clean Up Day in our borough, so today is the day the creepy people like me drive around r e e e e a l   s l o o o o ow, looking for treasures left out on the curb. […]

Supafine Show and Tell home tour at Cafe Mom

I’m so excited to show you guys: The fabulous Sheri Reed interviewed me for a home tour on Cafe Mom! Check it out! I am honored that she chose me and my home to feature on such a great web site — I’m now in such estimable company as Soule Mama, Buttons Magee, and Stephanie […]

Houseplant Week: creepy crawlies

(More Houseplant Week!)
I am sparing you a picture today.
So. Bugs. Gross, huh?  This link from the Colorado State extension is a pretty good primer on everything that could freak you out about your houseplants. You’re welcome. But basically there are many gross bugs ready to infest your precious green pets, and three easy household weapons: […]

Houseplant Week: Prepping for fall; recently bookmarked

What up, my nerds? Houseplant Week continues!

Last night I was panicking about the cold nights and wondering how to save some of my porch plants. I have two Boston ferns and two geraniums that I really want to hang on to for next spring, which would save me about $100 in porch decorating costs if […]

My green babies

Oh my God. I just wrote and deleted a weirdly detailed post about repotting my plants. Let me sum it up for you: As other people treat their dogs like children, I treat my plants like pets.
Like you didn’t know I was a weirdo.
Anyway, here they are, getting a sun bath. (WEIRDO.) If I start […]

Dinner

(Gardening is still kind of weird to me. It feels like … like I’m just taking handfuls of my yard and calling it food. But oh, when those peppers and tomatoes finally come in? CAN’T WAIT.)

Good gard amighty

This is so weird to me, to be into plants. I’ve only ever owned two plants before: an air plant and a cactus, in college. I don’t know how I came to own them but I do know that I killed them. But I suppose I’ve read 700% more gardening books since college, so, let’s […]

Upper and lower fun zones

The boys spent their first night in bunk beds last night: Owen up top and Mac down below. I was a nervous wreck, sleeping with one ear open for any ‘thunks,’ but they both did fabulously.
The beds are hand-me-down’s from Iain’s family. Owen has been talking for ages about getting bunk beds, and Cormac […]

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