We clean up a lot of spills in our house. And when I say "we," I mean me. I'm the spill cleaner-upper. If spilling was an Olympic sport, both my children would take the gold, year after year. There would be no competition. They're both winners. They're the spill king and queen. They spill in [...]
Yard-work. You thought 'baby,' right? Wrong. In order to keep a human alive, one must be able to keep basic nature alive. So we're 557 days into marriage, and the life lessons are "killing it" - or rather, killing our grass. All of it. Our front yard is the size of an 10' x 8' rug (way [...]
And so, the lessons in (new) home ownership continue. Let's talk about Christmas decor (and/or Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Kwanzaa - and any other festive, December-days so no one is left out). As my husband and I pulled into the neighborhood late Sunday evening, following our South Carolina to Florida round trip, we were met with [...]
Welcome to the neighborhood. For these first-time, homeowners, it's been a learning experience - to say the least. Life lesson #1 - $50 is hardly the amount to spend at Target on Halloween candy, unless you want to be the first house in the neighborhood to run dry - Which I was made keenly aware of [...]
Whoever said that was likely 25 years old - and had just bought a house (presumably in Rome). And by "built" - they mean: painted, decorated, furnished, cleaned, mowed, clipped, raked and Swiffered - because somehow, dog hair is much more prominent on shiny wood floors than it is on dingy, apartment carpet. The sun [...]
Adrianne Buckley 