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house stuff

Remodel Project: Big couch. Little door.

March 2, 2010
boybarians remodel the basement

In case you don’t follow me on twitter (what?! you don’t??? *gasp* Aw, it’s okay. I never tweet anything worth reading.)… we are remodeling the basement.
Calling it a “remodel” instead of just a “model” is laughable, because it currently looks like this:

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Give Away: Even I can look crafty…

August 19, 2009
uppercase living welcome door

**EDIT: THIS GIVE AWAY IS NOW OVER AND COMMENTS ARE CLOSED**
When Meagan, an Independent Demonstrator from Uppercase Living, contacted me about being a Life with my 3 Boybarians sponsor (see her over there in the sidebar?), I thought – ugh oh… She has NO idea how non-crafty I am. But that’s okay, [...]

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I Love Lucy

July 23, 2009
cat watches sprinkler

Gracious, I’ve been wanting to use that title for-absolutely-ever.
So who’s Lucy?
Well, you got to meet her briefly in my horribly embarrassing video blog.
This girl cracks me up.
She thinks she’s a dog. She comes running to the door to greet anyone from guests to the Fed Ex guy.
She throws herself on their feet, demanding a [...]

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My Neighborhood

June 27, 2009

ISO 800 85mm f/9 1/800sec

ISO 200 70mm f/9 1/200sec

ISO 200 55mm f/8 1/40sec
**This shot above, “Soybeans”, is entered in Dawn@MHSH’s photo contest sponsored by National Geographic and Energizer. You [...]

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Winner and Spring. Love Spring.

May 3, 2009

Every. muscle. aches.
Every single muscle in my body is cursing me in a drunken, lactic-acid stupor. But it will be sooo worth it.
We spent the day getting all the annuals in the ground. I weeded, dug, planted, and repeated ad nauseum. And now, the yard has the making of a baby nursery. [...]

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Give Away Winner & Help, Please!

March 13, 2009

First I have to announce my give-away winner. This time, instead of consulting random.org like I usually do, I collected the number of tweets and the comments left and asked Picasso to pick a number. The winner is:

CMS Academy. Shoot me an email, girlfriend. You’re going to a women’s conference all [...]

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The School Room Reveal & Surprise!

January 3, 2009

Well, you got a sneak preview of the school room when I posted this photo of Handy Man opening his my-wife-rocks Christmas gift.

But the room wasn’t really put together there. So let’s back it up a little bit.
We moved into this house 2 years and 2 days ago. Exactly.
And the moment the painters [...]

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Hello… hello… hello?

December 30, 2008

Can anybody hear me? (hear me? hear me?) Um, hi mom.
After a week of a fantastic disappearing act, I have returned to my poor, neglected excuse for a blog.
So, Christmas. Christmas was… good. Busy, loud, fun, a little hard on my house, fun, noisy, not a lot of sleep [...]

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What is that thing?!

December 6, 2008

Okay, okay! I hear you. Been a little slow on the email responses this week. Love me anyway, please?
I got more email about this photo than about any photo I have ever posted on LWM3B.

And most them said some version of, “What is that thing?”

You people are observant. I was trying [...]

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Cuckoo For Birds

November 29, 2008

First the woodpecker. Now this. It’s like a regular zoo around here.
This is the amazing bird in my yard. A big smooch if you can ID him for me. I’m thinking barn owl? But his wingspan was about 8′. The largest bird I have ever seen in real life [...]

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If I could freeze time…

August 31, 2008

The weather today was perfect. The perfect temperature, the perfect breeze, the smell of a forest that’s bursting with life; the constant chirping, buzzing, ruffling, squawking, bustling. But even now, the tips of trees are inching toward gold. As much as I wish I could freeze time right now – this [...]

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We Haven’t Killed It All Yet.

August 20, 2008

The good news is that the plants are thriving. I’ve checked Handy Man’s thumbs several times. It still *cracks. me. up!* when our neighbors seek his advice. Little do they know that before this spring the man had never put a thing into the ground. Still, it’s all alive. Although, [...]

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"You Need Art!" and "Take that, MPML!"

July 9, 2008

Do you have empty wall space that could use a little pretty? Head on over to Graphically Designing, my design blog, and enter my contest to win a framed piece from Pam Warden Art. I recently redesigned her blog, and now we’ve paired up for a contest. Hurry. It ends Friday [...]

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"0 Days Tornado-Free"

June 6, 2008

You know those work sites that have signs up that say “151 days Accident-Free” to celebrate safety? Iowa needs ones of those that says “___ Days Tornado-Free”. Except ours would say 0. We’ve had tornadoes every day for almost a week. And we’ve got more tornado watches tonight, too. We [...]

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Reason #574638526 That Our Neighbors Love Us…

May 7, 2008

Mr. Perfectly Manicured Lawn stood in his lawn pretending to water his lawn and pick up every twig in his yard. Under his breath I’m sure he was cursing Handy Man’s name. He just can’t see the potential. Can you see it?
Did you know that if you do all that digging – [...]

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Friends ‘n’ Rock Gardens

May 3, 2008

These are my favorite pics from this week.
We had friends over and I’m not sure who had more fun, Handy Man or the 7 kids running through the house! Our friends are just perfectly Trouble’s size. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

And guess what! Guess [...]

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Keepin’ it Real and the Value of Camaraderie

February 2, 2008

So much going on here! Notice the new song? Trouble picked it out just for YOU. It’s from Shrek 2; and fits nicely with his current obsession with all things Shrek. What Trouble may not know is that he is MY hero.
First, I need to acknowledge this package that arrived at [...]

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Punkin’ Patch Ranch

October 14, 2007

Fall never feels like fall until we’ve hit a local pumpkin patch. This year was so much fun. We’re relatively new to our area; the local place was brand new to us. What a fun place. We made a Saturday appointment to meet our landscape designer – a young, smart girl [...]

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The Box

October 1, 2007

Handy Man is, verifiably, a pack rat. I’ve known this about him since we met. Well, maybe not the moment we met, but certainly the moment we shared a home for the first time. Everything I could call my own back then fit in the trunk of a 1993 Dodge Intrepid. [...]

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Break Down of "Super Mom"

September 26, 2007

You all know her – a SuperMom. She’s the one with the well-mannered children who are both polite and do well in school. She balances work, chores, charity, faith, family time and spouse time seemingly flawlessly. Her laundry is done, her bed is made, and her children’s closets only contain clothes that [...]

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Weekly Report 10-11

September 22, 2007

Finally! My weekly report. As a reward for your patience I uploaded *lots* of pictures.
These last two weeks have been definite lessons in schooling during distraction. We had every possible interruption, noise, distraction, anti-learning atmosphere imaginable – yet we still managed to get a fair amount done. Admittedly, these past 10 [...]

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My Banister Has a Secret

May 2, 2007

I love watching those shows on HGTV where the families discover things in walls, writing behind wallpaper, or century-old treasures in the floor boards. I mean, how cool is it to have something sit untouched, undiscovered for so long? Then a voice from the past speaks directly to you through this long-lost, probably long-forgotten [...]

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Scourge of the Neighborhood

April 4, 2007

First, I need to brag on a grammar, writing, language program we just invested in about a month ago. It is a phonics-based spelling program that also focuses on cursive writing early. I have to show the beautiful work that 6-year-old Einstein did today. He writes more beautifully than I do, and [...]

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An Hour on the Phone with Dell

March 22, 2007

I have made a few attemps to update my blog over the last few days, each ending with it being deleted and lost in cyberspace. I hope Blogger is more user-friendly than this or I may abandon all hope.
We have a new computer. It’s smarter than I am. No, really. Fortunately [...]

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Iowa in March

March 18, 2007

Just in case any of you were planning on making some travel plans – here’s Iowa in March.

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