Our oldest kiddo turned 17 yesterday! She’s had a job for 6 months, puts money into savings and retirement every paycheck, and is just an all around responsible awesome person. We’ve been burned out with cookies, so we decided to visit my grandparents in the hills of West Virginia over the weekend. Grandma went all…
February always turns crazy busy for us. I generally start modeling for the semester. Cookie booth season starts. There’s always a project or two. The weather is unpredictable, so it’s a complete guess on how much we will suffer each weekend at a cookie booth. Fun times… Our current project is finishing our upstairs hallway…
One of the first rooms we did when we moved into the house was the spare bedroom. We had sold our house and moved into tiny barn in October of 2015, and we had a few months of limbo while we waited to see if our loaning bank, the bank that owned the house, and…
Ohio has had some warm weather recently, throwing us into panic mode. We know Winter weather will show up any day, and living in the country means we rely on propane as our main heating source. Propane is EXPENSIVE! Thankfully, we have a fireplace and 2.5 acres of woods, so we spent the weekend cutting…
My favorite season! Autumn, Fall, Mabon celebrations, leaves, apples, sweaters, fires, flannels, blankets, fog… the list goes on. September is always a busy month. Our county fair happens, our anniversary is this month, Fall festivals happen, scouts and school start up, Christmas setup at work starts, and now this year, the oldest started a part-time…