This is part two of my blog post about how we flipped our own house, doing a renovation and updating in 6 weeks, prior to listing it for sale. In Part One, I showed you the major changes upstairs when we took a wall between the dining, liv[...]
It's officially been a year since I arrived in Texas. When we decided to list our house for sale during our spontaneous cross-country move, I somehow managed to talk Chris into taking a gamble on a full renovation and trying to "flip" our[...]
It is officially summer in Colorado. We have a mini garden started with some veggies and berries, we've taken our first trip to buy delicious things from the farmer's market, and this afternoon Chris and I rode bikes (together!)[...]
I'm catching up with my end of the year work and realized I never wrote a final post for our Food Stamps Challenge. It also just so happens that today we were in the newspaper; the Gillette News Record ran a story about our chall[...]
One of the first things I looked up about our new community prior to leaving Nantucket was information on the food scene. Eating sustainable foods, gown locally and in season are very important to us because we believe that is on of t[...]
Note: Normally, today would be a Film Friday post, but tomorrow is town meeting and I didn't have a chance to get this post finished up last night, so I'm sharing it tonight before tomorrow's big vote. Film Friday will resume next week.[...]
This week the USDA published its annual report on Expenditures on Children by Families and the numbers are shocking - to me at least. It costs an average middle-income American family $222,360 to raise a child from birth to 18. Depending[...]