There are two hand carved vases on my sofa table that came from our cruise stop in Labadee, Haiti a few years back. The part of Haiti that I saw was absolute paradise. Labadee is a gated and heavily guarded peninsula that is privately owned by Royal Caribbean cruise lines, so I know that even though I’ve been to Haiti…
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A few years ago I walked into Pier One during one of their “pretty” merchandise seasons (as opposed to the ugly seasons where I would run screaming from the store away from all the hideousness. You know you know what I’m talking about!) and found this beautiful scrolly wrought iron sofa table base. The trouble was, all Pier One offered…
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Garrett’s newest thing is making a tent out of all the blankets and chenille throws in the living room. The couch and ottoman and Dad’s legs make fine tent frames, in case you didn’t know. It seems like every night he will drag the blankets over to us and say “TENT!”. After we get it all situated he will waller…
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One score and one year ago I wrote a little entry called Curtainless Showers and Other Keepin-It-Real Tales of Moving Woe. Fast forward to today, and that woe is still hanging around here in full force. We’re trying to do everything we can to make our house look better and stand out from the other four or five hundred houses…
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G was spending the night at the inlaws last weekend so J and I went out to eat at a real sit-down place that doesn’t have the word “nugget” anywhere on the menu. After dinner we were in the movie theatre halfway through Up In The Air when I got a phone call from Papa. Garrett had fallen down on…
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