Works For Me: Customized Toy Bin

I am the luckiest pack-rat alive. I come with my own Can-We-Do-It-Yes-We-Can Bob The Builder. And just this past week, he solved one of our biggest apartment pet-peeves: The Toy Mess. Oh, but that’s just the Bedroom Edition. There’s more in the living...

Meet-and-Greet Monday (Part One of SEVERAL (Or at Least Two))

Meet Olivia’s Christmas cookies. She frosted them herself: Meet our family Christmas photo! It took a half a dozen attempts, but we finally got one where The Daddy wasn’t blinking. My hair looks a bit crazy. And I wasn’t wearing a stitch of makeup....

Brrr, It’s Cold In Here

It’s the chill of stone-cold neglect. But don’t you even assume I’ve been using my non-blogging time to simply sit back and relax.  No, we succeeded in visiting every single known relative in Illinois over the past eight days.  And even squeezed in a...