If a picture is worth a thousand words…

Then you’re going to have to be content with a thousand words.
‘Cause I got no pictures.
What a week.
I blame the baby. She started off the week sick and decided to cry off and on during the night a few times, sleep in our bed a few times, kick people in the face a few times [...]

Our maple tree is aflame but my living room is not.

Don’t you love fall?
You were all (all four of you, thanks for playing) good guesses. I didn’t really give you much to work with.
Since I’ve been thinking about it for well over a year, I’ve considered a whole range of colors for the living room and front hall. It’s a very open floor plan (you [...]

Yesterday

Yesterday was the conclusion of Operation: Paint the House.
And by “House”, I mean the entryway, hallways, living room, and around the window in the dining room. (Oh! and the laundry room door. Don’t forget that.)
Everyday, during naptime, late at night, early in the morning, just painting. Or getting ready to paint. Which, frankly, takes as [...]

How to confuse the post office in twelve difficult steps.

You might not need to do all of these. Use your own judgment.
Step one: Move to another town (we’ll call this addresss B). Forward your mail.
Step two: After six months move to another part of town (we’ll call this address C).
Step three: Consider yourself doing the post office a favor and put in a forwarding [...]

We got our weekends back.

I have to say, the worst part of traveling back and forth between two places is that we never really had a restful weekend. Fridays were always busy with packing, and driving, and then unpacking.
We spent Saturdays working and being busy; doing all the things we should normally do during the week, but that we [...]

Why pay someone when you can do it yourself?

(One half of a phone conversation)
(Overheard)
(in my head)
“So, what was the quote from that kitchen designer?”
“No, the one for the big apartment complex account.”

“Are you kidding me? That’s outrageous! How hard is it to design a kitchen? Like that’s real work.”

“Oh, I know. Must be nice to make that kind of money.”

“You know what? It [...]

If you give a kid a camera…

We were stuck in our mostly empty apartment on Tuesday waiting for the cable guy. We needed to be there between the hours of 12 and 4.
Try to guess when he showed up.
I’ll give you a hint: I could’ve gotten there by 3 and still been bored.
Now try to guess how we spent our time.

Wow. [...]

If moving is my hobby, shouldn’t I be good at it by now?

She said, after realizing that she had grossly underestimated the time, effort, and stress of the latest move.
‘Round about 10:30 p.m., Mr. French said, “Somewhere, somehow, we got something wrong here.”
At least the hard part is over.
I would like to be here.

But instead I’m here.

10 points to me for finding my camera cord!
(in the bathroom, [...]

You know you move a lot when….

1. You have to forward your mail from two different addresses. (Personally, I’ve had to do it from three.)
2. It physically pains you to get rid of perfectly good boxes. You know you’ll need them again someday.
3. You look forward to moving because you can stop cleaning the house three weeks prior. (You’ll never have [...]

Well, if that’s the way you’re going to bee.

As many of you know, we live in two places. (all at once! we’re so special!)
We go back “home” every weekend. (we’re soooo hip and cool.)
This last time we were home, I went out on the back deck to clean out my vacuum canister (Wait? I have to clean two houses? by myself?!)
and I noticed [...]