Making Home
Ethnic Eclectic
February 27, 2008
In anticipation of my parent's visit next week during which my dad is going to paint our kitchen I've been doing renovation research. It all started last weekend when we were at the hotel Saturday night and I watched 2 hours of HGTV (very addicting tv). Afterwards I did a ...
Why I love Maine, reason number 36:
January 7, 2008
The term "off the grid" comes up fairly often in conversations & media (at the least with the people I know). And when you bring it up people know you aren't talking about drawing your line off the graph paper. If you know what I mean. I have fantasies of ...
Laurent's room reno
November 27, 2007
My parents left this morning after spending the last week with us. Whew, it was a wonderful and busy time. I've been slowly getting my life and house back in order today. Will be a few more days before all the cleaning and tidying is done. While my parents were ...
Startling discoveries
July 3, 2007
Damien's brother and his family are arriving tonight for a 2 week stay at our house. This is their first visit to Maine and I've been busy scrubbing and polishing our home to (let's be honest) make a good impression. Our house doesn't get scrubbed very much, tidied & vacuumed ...
Week in review
April 22, 2007
Last weekend we were building snow forts and throwing snow balls. This weekend the kids went wading in their kiddie pool - yes in in bathing suits and water. In between these two weekends Maine was pummelled with a hurricane force rainstorm that devestated areas of the coast (we live ...
