2008 was a year of many projects here in our home. In addition to my Greatest Hits of 2008 post that includes the articles from last year that received the most traffic and a list of my five favorite articles, I thought it would be fun to post a recap of a year of projects [...]

Back in March, I posted that my hubby had started stuccoing the outside of our house. It was all very exciting. Instead of having a house with lathe showing all over it and no siding, I finally had a house with gray cement all over it and it just seemed so pretty in comparison to [...]

I fleetingly showed my son’s room a couple weeks ago when I shared a tour of my house. This room has been a long time coming. For a while, we only had two livable bedrooms while the other two sat waiting to be remodeled. A year ago, this room was where hubby and I [...]

A reader, Denise, emailed me saying,
“Just found your website last week.  Love your posts.  Working to simplify our lives now - both in the area of finances as well as job/career choices.  You may have it listed in an earlier post, and if so, you can point me to that, but what things did you [...]

We’ve put it off long enough. It’s been 2 long years of remodeling our home, which involved the entire rebuild of our living room, kitchen, a bathroom and 3 bedrooms. Instead of taking on this project, we’ve done things like our new patio and then some “small” things over the summer. Now, the [...]