This table was another side-of-the-road freebie. Nothing fancy. I could have just painted it. But I had a little more of a vision for this one… I had to enlist the help of my husband. He’s got a lot of scrap wood in his shop, and since we are in a rough financial spot right […]
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So tell me about your childhood…
I’ve been working on refinishing this table my husband found for free on the side of the road. The top was kind of messed up, so my dad took it off, flipped it over, and put it back on. Then he painted it black. I’m putting a checkerboard on top. There are multiple steps and […]
Second grade politics. What a load of crap.
Number 3 and 4’s school has a student council which I guess is made up of a class president and vice president from each class, and they were holding elections for that this past week. Number 3 has no interest in participating in these kinds of things. Number 4 wanted to run, although she had absolutely […]
I’m the cool one, he’s the cool one, she’s the cool one, we’re the cool one, wouldn’t you like to be the cool one too?
The other day I was talking about that little red number over the facebook message icon. How you never know what lies behind that number. Well, just recently, that number lit up again. But before I get to that, let me backtrack. I grew up in a seriously loaded town in Connecticut. Lots and lots, […]
Success is a journey, not a destination. Although the destination is pretty freaking awesome.
8 months ago, I allowed someone to take my picture. Maybe not a big deal, you say. But to me, it was. Because I felt really, REALLY bad about the way that I looked. The past 8 years have been spent avoiding having my picture taken. At all costs. And there were some heavy costs. […]
A word (or nine hundred) to the so-called “wise.”
I’m just a girl writing a blog. A girl, with a bunch of kids, writing a blog. A girl, with a bunch of kids, whom she loves very much, writing a blog. But I am also a girl, with a bunch of kids, whom she sometimes wants to lock in a closet. Or wrap in […]
