I am all over the place this morning. For some reason I can’t get my head wrapped around the day. I am off track and the trains (four of them, small, loud, demanding trains) that usually run wildly but in some semblance of order were derailing all over the place this morning. Dex suggested it […]

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Tomorrow a realtor is coming by to see our place in anticipation of listing. We may or may not list with this person - we still have a few finishing touches to do on the house and are likely a couple of weeks away from being ready to list - but I need to know […]

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During the week of school vacation I have:

taken all four kids grocery shopping for a week’s worth of groceries
taken the three younger kids to Home Depot, where I bought mulch, rocks, and spray paint
taken all four kids for a walk around the neighborhood cul-de-sac

These may not rank high in the list of major accomplishments, but to […]

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I’m too tired to be clever today, so I’ll just give you the list:

getting the house ready to sell, including landscaping, decluttering, sorting, selling stuff, and doing touch up work, and which also includes researching the local housing market, and which *also* includes researching the three (?) possible places we might end up living once […]

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In recent weeks I have invested considerable physical and mental energy into starting to get our house ready to list. Dex has been working on his list, highly visible things like repainting the kitchen. He has some outside projects (a little siding work, some fence work) and some inside projects (repainting parts of walls, completely […]

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I had to shop today. After dropping the girls at the neighbor’s house, I spent a sum total of 45 minutes driving and 3 hours shopping. And somehow I feel like I bought nothing even though the back of the van is full of bags.
So what did I get for our hard-earned dollars?

5 pairs of […]

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I am literally pausing in the middle of my all-the-crap-I-have-to-do-before-bed routine to say this:
…and another thing I hate about winter is all the freakin’ extra laundry!
There. Phew. Got that out of my system. I was just standing in front of my washing machine, digging through soggy socks and layers of undershirts and sweaters, dreaming of […]

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A week or so ago I was wondering why the crankiness in the household seemed to reach new thresholds. Could my kids all be going through some terrible twos/fives/eights phase simultaneously? Then I glanced at the calendar. Oh yeah! It’s the middle of February!  
February is not my least favorite month, not by a longshot. That […]

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The tide of change enveloping our lives is still sweeping over me.
Can you tell how excited I am?

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It may be freezing and snowing outside my windows but today I feel the chinook winds blowing through our lives. They bring warmth and renewal … CHANGE.
Today we got confirmation of the news we have been sitting on for weeks. And really waiting on and working our butts off toward for years. Big things are […]

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