The Bathroom: FINISHED!
The bathroom is FINISHED! It's been a long process, and we've learned a ridiculous amount out of the process. I'm thankful that it's done, and that it looks even more beautiful than I could have imagined. Knowing we're not breathing in mold (or risking the...
Starting week seven
Today starts the seventh week of our bathroom project. And that doesn't count all the preliminary work of finding someone and choosing everything we'd put in there. It's the seventh week of: sharing one bathroom for the 5 of us all day Josh working in the...
Bathroom: update 2
Project day 29 (counting weekends because that's how long we've been looking at plastic sheeting instead of a bathroom). He finished tiling and grouting (? is that a word?) the shower. It was a bigger project than any of us anticipated: subway tiles are...
Bathrooms: a warning
Dear Charla-in-2019, I know at this point the memories of the great Bathroom Renovation of 2018 will be a blur. You're remembering just how much fun it was pinning all the bathroom images and finding just the right look for your redesign. How delightful it...
Bathroom Renovation: Part 1
Sooooo.... We're getting a new bathroom. It's not really what I wanted right now. We thought it was a nice bathroom (minus the hideous very-1998 border that DEFINITELY was on its way out). The green countertops were very 1998 too, but at least they were in...
Research projects
My kids are either dysylexic or dysgraphic (or both). Because of that, I don't require much written work from them, instead leaning on other ways to make sure they're learning. We keep it light, because the biggest thing I want them to take from their...
Animal friends
I grew up with animals. At various times we had a cat, various dogs (the only one we had more than a year was our beloved Cockapoo), parakeets, and a hamster. Josh had rabbits for a time and a cat, though those were for a less significant portion of his...
Gone away is the bluebird…
...here to stay is the new bird! We're still in all-Christmas-music-all-the-time mode. We'll likely be de-Christmasing this weekend, and the kids have already requested that we listen to Hamilton as soon as we turn off the Christmas music....
Dapper Day
This past weekend was Dapper Day. It's actually misnamed because it was the whole weekend, but that just meant we had more time to play! What is Dapper Day? You can read (and see) all about it here. The short version, though, is that it's an opportunity to...
School: the next thing
Anyone who's known me for awhile knows that we change how we do school constantly. I'm always finding something more perfect than we used before, and it's rare that we get more than one year through any one program. Part of that has been figuring out the...