Hat Tip: my dear Kelli -That my daughter is blissful with her new hubby. -That the cover art on my next book is cute, cute, cute! (Sorry, you’ll have to wait a bit to see it..) -That the insurance company is paying for a good chunk of our bathroom flood repair -That my sweet...
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The winner of the book, ‘From Ashes to Africa’ is Courtney of Books ‘n’ Boys. Congrats, Courtney! Email me (owlhaven at aol dot com) with your address and I will send the book your way!
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Right from the start of wedding planning, Ben and Amanda knew that great photographs were a priority to them. While considering various photographers, they (and I) spent hours online looking at wedding galleries. Invariably the best photographs seemed to be taken outdoors– you just can’t beat natural light. Since we were planning a February...
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UPDATE” Book winner posted here. Thanks for your stories about your awesome hubbies!!!!! ————- My book giveaways have been a bit derailed by the bathroom remodeling drama around here– pix soon! But as promised, here is the first giveaway. A couple who reads my blog, Josh and Amy Bottomly, wrote a book about the...
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The news from here is that insurance is paying for new tile and a new floor. We are taking best advantage of the chaos by upgrading to a new tub and toilet, which just might make all this chaos worthwhile. If we survive it. 10 people in 2 bathrooms. Yikes. ON the bright side,...
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After our tub overflow on Saturday evening, we wet-vacuumed the bedroom carpet and turned on a heater in the room to dry things out, hoping we’d taken care of things. It wasn’t til Monday evening that we noticed that the furnace was not working. John went down into the crawl space to discover dripping,...
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I promise I will write something interesting someday. Here are some of my excuses for a bullet list today. –am finishing last few book edits, some of which were lost due to confusion over how to save edited files. (grr) –am writing a post about some of the best frugal wedding decor –am working...
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Here’s an interesting perspective: The Housing Chart That’s Worth 1000 Words. Hat tip: Tim Challies —– And if you buy diapers, don’t miss this Kroger deal.
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Friday I turned in the bulk of the edits for ‘Family Feasts for $75 a Week’ which means that yesterday was the first day since Thanksgiving that I didn’t feel the weight of a huge project (or a wedding and a huge project) looming. I woke up wondering what I to do with the...
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..when seized with the sudden urge to bleach the bathtub, do not get sidetracked by beginning dinner and helping your daughter play a piano piece and putting in a load of laundry and googling youtube videos of Thirty-Something and watching 10 minutes of such videos. Because in the half hour that all such activities...
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