I received the most wonderful gift for Christmas this year, a Keurig single brew coffee machine, IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.;) Seriously. There are a whole bunch of reasons why this thing is so perfect, let’s discuss, shall we? 1) It makes THE BEST cup of coffee, piping hot, yummy, the BEST. 2) It is so damn convenient!...

We don’t have any. Clearly we need to do something with our ‘garden’ if you could even call it that, but let’s look past that into the house color, shall we? Here is the unassuming front of the house: Then the side down the driveway which is in desperate need of help as well, keep looking past, keep looking past: Then...

Not phat which is good, but fat which is BAD. I ate myself into a frenzy while I was pregnant with Miss Scarlett, but as Ethan says ‘she was born a long time ago and you still have a belly.’ THANKS KID! But he is right. I’ve had the freakin wii fit for 28 days and the line on the graph is not moving and that is...

Here was my discussion with Ethan last night about puberty. E: Mom, what is puberty? Me: mortified, ‘puberty is when your body goes through changes and you go from being a boy to a man.’ E: What happens to your body? Me: still mortified, ‘well, you grow hair on your chest and your face and other places and your voice...

I wanted a big ass white apron farm sink, but I didn’t want to pay big ass prices… they go for up to 1K, sheesh. Then I spy the one at Ikea, it is enormous and white and apron and under $300. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Double Domsjo: I challenge you to find a big ass kitchen sink like this one for under $500,...

I don’t understand why children spend the first 13 years of their lives fighting sleep, then all of a sudden they won’t get out of bed. I think it is one of life’s great unsolved mysteries. Getting Ethan to go to bed at night is a whole series of plays in the playbook… he’s hot, he’s cold, his head hurts, he is thinking bad...

We are cooking with gas in my house lately, lots and lots of it.;) We purchased a 36 inch Bertazzoni range at an appliance sample sale way way back in July. The thing is gorgeous, I spied it as soon as we got into the showroom and had the salesman put a SOLD sign on it immediately. It is black enamel with a stainless...

I have always had a thing for baby bellies, I think they are just about the cutest things in the whole world. ‘Where’s your belly?’ gets the response from my kids of lifting up their shirts and laughing. And that big pink baby belly is just darling, so much stuffed into one small little area, it’s like you can...

The kid totally cracks me up.  We spend a day out, we go do something fun like hit the pumpkin patch or have ice cream after school… we have a great time and his way of telling me is to say ‘I don’t want to be adopted today.’  Like every other day in his poor pitiful life he would rather be adopted by another family. ...

I would be Frick, hubs is Frack.  I am exhausted and all I can say is that this whole process is a freakin riot.  Every time we put something on the wall we need to take it down again and redo it.  I finally feel like we are starting to make some progress… the ratio of cabinets that need to be redone vs. cabinets...