The Patzels

Makes a rusty carcass look almost new. In other house news we saved a bird who at some point decided our kitchen might be a good home (until he realized it came with locked doors and windows).

The plumber did some work today – so some extra pipes and some temporarily sputtering water lines, but still no floor,so we remain in purgatory. Thankfully the UPS man arrived promptly at 6pm with my induction cooktop which resulted in a proper dinner with the boys in the “paradise above …

So every time I open the door from our hallway into our foyer I’m reminded of that screen in Beetlejuice where the deceased (unbeknownst to them) characters open their door and find their house floating above a desert filled with giant man eating worms… Incidentally, We now block the foyer …

Some photos from December

The screws are gone (if you don’t know what I’m talking about check out yesterday’s post). But now… oh… the nails… so many nails…

Start with a functioning kitchen… Next, rip it out. Finally, attempt to live in a kitchenless house with two small children, a sister, her husband and a dog… Yep, kitchen remodel here we come… We spent Sunday packing (frantically). Robb had to work on Monday (as did I) which meant …

We held the playdoh in reserve for a few weeks… Now Aaric won’t leave it alone. All the doh is now psychedelic purple…

So I’ve been collecting items for our (hopefully soon) kitchen remodel… Based on my calcs we should be able to pile a weeks worth of dishes in and still have room to bath a child…

Pullman cars are amazing!!! And I got Mexican after- bonus!