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One of the many, many reasons I hate to clean: As I’m clearing the floor in Sam’s room for vacuumming, he’s in Jack’s room dumping out the Legos.  The little ones.  ALL of them.  (Before, of course, I vacuummed in there.) Juice spill in the a.m., kitchen floor – Luke Pee all over the bathroom [...]

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I know you all miss me terribly, but I’ve been busy painting my ass off.  Unfortunately, it still looks the same.  My ass, that is.  The house, however, looks great.  That’s because I copied my sister’s exquisite taste and used the same colors she did.  So far, anyway. You’ve seen the kitchen and I’ll post [...]

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I’ve been missing my keys for the last couple of days.  I know, I know.  How could I stand it? Well, I couldn’t.  It’s been driving me nuts.  I know I had them in my coat pocket on Tuesday when we took the Metra to have lunch in Geneva with the kids.  It was a [...]

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I’ve been slaving away on the next room – our living room.  Pulling off trim, buying paint, priming, etc.  As a result, I’ve been a little lax in my posting. Here are a few pics of the kids.  Jack and Maria helped (seriously!) rake leaves the other day while Sam napped and Luke cried inside [...]

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I’m not one to start decorating for Christmas the day after Halloween.  And, I really don’t decorate all that much anyway.  However, I do look forward to getting my wreath out each year.  As soon as I think about it, I get it out and hang it.  Then I keep it up for as long [...]

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All morning we’ve been enjoying our new kick-ass kitchen.  I’m so happy! Mario called to check in with us and set a time for coming by on Monday for a few things.  We told him how happy we are and we thanked him profusely. Five minutes later the kitchen shut down.  Completely.  No power. Is [...]

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My first customers.

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It doesn’t cook for me.  And it doesn’t clean for me. But, it absolutely makes those things more pleasant. Our new kitchen: Thank you to everyone who helped, especially Mario and Dom at Bari & Sons Construction (obviously they did a lot more than help), Gran and Maddog, my sister Caroline and all of the [...]

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I always figured that one of these days the kids would be learning things at school that I’d never even heard of.  I mean, heck, Jack is already learning algebra and he’s only in the first grade.  (They call it algebra, anyway). But, imagine my surprise when Jack sat down to do his homework last [...]

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