Some of our dear friends expressed an interest in having me help them build a mantle for their new house. They had seen the mantle I built for our house and decided it was just what they wanted. But before I tell you any more or show you any pictures, you need to know that…
Can I share something with you? Something so delicious, so dreamy that it will make your toes curl? Here it is…… My new, clean, white, un-scratched by children’s hands refrigerator. “How,” you ask, “Did you get this lovely creature to agree to come and live with you?” Well I’ll tell you. The fridge in mi…
If you’ve been to my house then you will not find this post interesting. In fact, now that I think about it, even if you haven’t been here you probably won’t find it very interesting. But I am going to write it anyway because I promised my friend over at Peterson Clan. This is a…
By now you all pretty much know my main parenting tip:. Think of your relationship with your children as an image of your relationship with God So in teaching my children how to respond to me, I use my relationship with God as my example of the right response. If I tell little Johnny to…
It took almost the whole weekend, but we did it. We finished this crazy project. Me and my bright ideas, “Let’s just spend a couple of Saturdays replacing the floors in the kids’ room,” I said. “It will be easy,” “Let’s open up the bathroom while we’re at it.” “We’ll have such a great time…
As we worked and worked to get the new floors down we held fast to the knowledge that we were getting closer to having this project behind us. Boy’s room….check! Girl’s room number one….check! Girl’s room number two….check Girl’s bathroom….uh…..no. Why? Because when we pulled up the old flooring we noticed moisture around the toilet….