It all starts with a sink…

    Ok, my hormone spike seems to have passed…and I have officially started on the first of the 31 day program from FlyLady. Wow, I kinda feel like a recovering alcoholic or something. 😉 I mentioned it before but the first step is to shine your sink…and keep...

    Before and After: The Old Kitchen Becomes an Office

    This post is part of the Before & After series I’ve started about the renovation of our house. If you’d like to read more about our projects on the house, please visit our Farmhouse page. When we bought the house in August 2006, the kitchen in the main...

    Mud room + pantry update

    Soooo, I mentioned that some progress had been made in the mud room recently…and that is definitely the case. When Stefan’s parents were here, the guys hung up our cabinets from our first apartment here in Germany that we have lugged around from place to...

    Our guest house now has ceilings & walls!

    We made an enormous amount of progress today – more than we ever could have imagined!Macky sent a contractor to us this morning which wrote about earlier…we were a bit concerned because Macky told us during one of our last conversations that it’s not...

    A change of pace – ie. Macky is back

    This morning we had made plans to sleep in a bit to recover from all the back breaking labor yesterday. However, at 8AM sharp the phone rang and it was Macky.He apologized profusely for not calling and not being there as promised and gave a few more details regarding...