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 house was this room. The counter wasn’t […]

We had another doctor’s appointment last Tuesday. I would share the latest photo, but it’s not really that great and you can’t see much of anything. It’s the same angle as the last one but a lot fuzzier. Apparently Mackenzie didn’t want to hold still long enough for the paparazzi to do their job this […]

I finally got back into making meal plans again. I went all out this time and did 3 weeks at once. I haven’t stuck to it too well so far but at least our freezer is FULL of food and when I do feel like being a good homemaker, I have a variety of things […]

Wow. Now that was interesting. I’m sitting here on the couch. It’s 7:45 pm and the phone rings. A woman from the Hanauer Anzeiger, a local newspaper in a neighboring city, is on the phone and wants to know how we enjoyed our free two-week subscription to the newspaper in August. Me: “Well, we never […]

In addition to a couple errands I had to go run today, I have the pleasure of banishing a virus from my primary computer. I say primary since we have 3 PC’s and 2 laptops running at all times around here…and it tends to get a bit confusing. But this thing snuck up on me […]