I’ve Become My Worst Nightmare

After Autumn goes to sleep every night, I’ve been sitting on my ass, watching Project Runway (from Netflix) and sewing for my family. Now that everything has been given out, I can show a bit of what I made. I didn’t get photos of everything before I either sent out packages or before [...]

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If you didn’t know already, Gecko’s are green…

and apparently come from Santa Grandma.

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Santa Who?

I’m not the Santa parent or the baby Jesus parent for that matter and I don’t talk up the man in the red and white suit, um but apparently grandma does….
Saturday, after getting off the phone with grandma, Autumn came in to tell me “I want to go see Santa!”
After I got over the shock [...]

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That Man Across From Me is 41!

We had ourselves dinner at a bar and a saw a little theater. We saw Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris (the funniest man alive and one of our favorites!)
We are so thankful to Aunt Melissa and Uncle Dave for giving us these sporadic moments to be able to reconnect – just the two [...]

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Making Things

To challenge the urge to splurge and because I’m the only one with a regular income around here and because I simply want to, I decided to make all my gifts this year. So I’ve plunked myself down, a difficult chore in itself and began to create and mostly sew.

On Saturday I had my [...]

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Paper Chain Making At Home

Autumn loved making paper chains at school so much that we brought the activity home.

Autumn made a pink chain.

I made a gold, bronze, copper and pink chain.

And Don made a copper chain.

And now they live on our tree.

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Then to make me feel better autumn says…

“Mama, you can be the Bride of Frankenstein because you’re pretty.”

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You gotta love when you install a wood floor in your basement…

…and then for the first time ever – a week later – it fucking floods!

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I won’t be changing my mind this time.

Our house came with crappy, used, beige carpet in the basement. I very much dislike carpet, so I began ripping it up and decided to paint the floor with high quality floor paint and call it done BUT it just wasn’t working for me, mostly because small sections kept peeling up. So, while [...]

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We just realized…

…that we’ve been radically hooked together in some form for ten years!

Crikey!

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