Nursery Tour

I just posted the nursery tour on Becoming-Mom.. hope you like it! Click here for Nursery Tour… P.S. I would have posted it here, but I wanted to try this nifty new simple viewer/flicrk gallery plug-in and I was afraid it would conflict with another plug-in I have installed. If you use wordpress and want […]

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Party Progress

I am exhausted!! There’s nothing like carrying around an extra 30lbs to make previously only mildly tiring tasks completely backbreaking, like cleaning the house for example. After cleaning the inside of the house from top to bottom I felt like I had been run over by a bus! The advent of the third trimester this […]

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Granite Backsplash After!

As you may have guessed by my lack of posting, the granite backsplash didn’t get done the weekend before last as it was supposed to. I guess the standard height of a granite backsplash is 4″ but we only had about 3.25″ under the window casings behind the sink. Jeff didn’t tell the granite guy […]

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Master Bath Gets a Face Lift

Just as an update to my last post, with the addition of the deduction of the real estate taxes paid at closing our combined total state and federal refund came to $1600! We haven’t actually received our return yet, but that didn’t stop us from spending some of our proceeds in anticipation, thanks mostly to […]

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New Kitchen Fan!

I’m pretty sure I’ve told you before how much I HATE fans.  Well, I do, and none more than our kitchen fan.  It was white, plastic and if you turned it on it would wobble violently creating the sense that it was about to detatch itself from the ceiling and decapitate you at any given […]

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Undercabinet Molding, Finally!

Yes, it’s been quite a while since we installed the floating floor in our Kitchen. And all this time there was a dirty little secret lurking beneath the floor cabinets.. Check it out: Blech!  Last week, Jeff was in a particularly industrious mood (I think I was lounging on the couch) and after a few […]

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Master Bedroom Redux

I was telling you in my last post how we had a couple first time visitors come over to the house over the holiday weekend. Maybe it was the fact that it was two house tours in one day, but it just really started to bother me that I feel I have to apologize for […]

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From Trash To Treasure…

I finally had a second to snap a picture of our fabulous new Simplehuman step trash can.  It was my choice as a housewarming gift from my aunt who asked me what we wanted/needed.. (I hope she didn’t read anything into the symbolism!) Here’s a pic of our “trash can” before: and now after! Simple […]

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What Do we All Think of White Picket Fences?

So apparently Jeff has acquired a fence bug after putting up the back yard privacy fence.. I got an email from him asking where he could get a picture of the front of our house (um, yeah, he doesn’t really read the blog much..) I sent him this: And about an hour later I get […]

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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

Well, it makes us good neighbors, I’m still not too sure about THEM. By THEM I mean the family who live next door who are very nice but clearly don’t count home maintenance among their virtues. Oh yeah, Hi, I’m back!! Well, sort of back..Jeff (Aka the Charmed & Dangerous widower) has been doing house […]

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