I haven’t been feeling the whole Christmas thing this year. I know that part of that is the Christmas Creep the retailers impose on us. When Christmas trees start appearing in stores in September I totally roll my eyes. By October, I’m sort of intrugied and start to think of the season ahead, and by [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I tend to avoid Halloween like the plague. I think in the 6 years we were at the condo, we handed out candy once. And that was because our friend was living with us at the time and he wanted to hand out candy. But now I have a [...]

For as long as I can remember, long before the husband and I were even anywhere close to actually getting married and having kids, I have sworn up and down that my child was not going to play soccer. Baseball, sure. But soccer, no. So you can imagine my surprise that it took a mere [...]

    We moved into a house that, while it has a small yard, has (for now, until we settle on a landscaping plan) a ton of very large, very leafy, trees. Which is a bit of an adjustment, as we come from a condo where we didn’t have to worry about any such things. [...]

We did it. We closed on the house (not without some last minute crap from the seller, but I put my foot down, even as the husband was kicking me under the table at the closing). And we moved. We are in. Even if we aren’t totally out of the condo. The husband says the [...]