A couple years ago, I began writing this blog to tell the story of a remodel of a moldy old house into  a home: a real home with kids, a budget and imperfect piles of stuff. But that kind of blog can only go so far, because a shiny new remodel is only shiny & new for so

There’s some pretty amazing people out there who will voluntarily let their children paint in white shirts, or make homemade vegetable-dyed playdoh “just because”, or don't mind a bit when their children’s pointy-edged legos pierce their bare foot in the middle of the night.  Those people are amazing. I am not one of them.  Yet sometimes, sometimes, I