Do It Yourself Genes
When Hannah draws pictures of her future house, she also draws piles of wood and windows and the tools she’ll use to build it. The other day, as were driving home from some garden- or home-center excursion, Hannah lay her head back in her carseat and said, “Dad, I’m looking very carefully at houses in [...]
Renewal
You know how sometimes one thing leads to another around the house? Well, because we bought a chandelier a month ago, we had to rearrange all our furniture this weekend. Here’s the result. I can’t show you much of a before picture because I apparently don’t do before pictures. I just jump right in. Anyhow, [...]
Easter Bunny
This is the Free-Easter followup. I’m sure you were wondering. So first of all, The Peanut Butter Eggs were Ah-mazing! Obviously they were a little bit fiddly to make, but one batch only took us an hour or so to dip and we ended up with 3 dozen. And they’re slightly intense. Even among a [...]
Easter
So, along with my plans of fixing up the house for as free as possible, I set myself the goal of having a free Easter this year. Okay, honestly, it won’t be capital-F Free, because we’ll use up materials around the house that we could have used on other things. But no buying chocolate bunnies, [...]