Whew!  We are just busy!  But it is good.  I am really enjoying the sunny, albeit rather windy, spring and feel like we dodged the bitingly ...

I just spent $25 on the ugliest can of paint ever and it was, not surprisingly, very unsatisfying.  You may wonder why I would buy a color t...

My name is Mary and I have plaster walls. It has been an insufferable burden for the last six years to not really be able to affix anything...

Our house needs painting. Ugh. Yes, I do live in the Money Pit, thank you very much for asking. We are not going to paint it this year, b...

Here is one of the tub.

Well, here it is. The moment we have all been waiting for ~~ the new bathroom is finally finished! Hip, hip, hooray! We thought that it w...

I had decided that we would deep clean one room of the house every week this summer, but amazingly enough, that did not happen.  We halfhear...

I have been attempting the coupon thing again because I really would like to find a way to spend less money on groceries.  Last week was cou...

I love my house.  It is a Prairie style Sears catalog house.   When we first moved here I would think how lucky I was every time I walked u...

Here it is -- the table that changed my life.  I moved one of the chairs so that the fancy legs could be seen.  What do you th...

Two out of five children surveyed are taller than me now! When did that happen? It is a very strange feeling to be telling them off by loo...

Hurrah, our new washing machine was delivered this morning! It is very shiny and sparkly and I cannot wait to use it. I have been ponderin...

I do like to possess things , but oftentimes things are a burden. Everything in my house is breaking. There is something new every day. ...