Flying Solo

Posted by on May 2, 2005 in dish | 0 comments DH flew to San Antonio for the International Reading Association conference, so I’m playing single mom this week.I have a headache.Things started out well–got DH to the plane with plenty of time (we did have to peel DD off him in the dropoff lane), made it to church, had a nice afternoon. Then I forgot that today my juniors were taking their AP exam and I’d promised to make...
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Big, Burly Men

Posted by on Apr 19, 2005 in dish | 1 comment …are currently tearing up my kitchen. Today my new counters arrive. Woo hoo! Our has has beautiful real pine cabinets, so divorcing them from the 30-year-old Formica counters was just not an option. Enter Kornerstone Tops, who will transform worn-out white to sexy black granite by lunchtime!!This is pretty cool, actually. The guys came out a few weeks ago to measure and make a template of...
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Sunday Afternoon

Posted by on Apr 3, 2005 in dish | 0 comments Benjamin Franklin said that you could count on two things in life: death and taxes. I say you can count on three: death, taxes, and my husband taking a nap on Sunday afternoon.What is it with men, anyway? They get the nap gene hard-wired into the DNA, we girls tiptoe around them multi-tasking until our brains are tapioca, and they wake after a couple of hours semi-refreshed and ready to watch...
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Paige Davis, Eat Your Heart Out!

Posted by on Mar 22, 2005 in dish | 0 comments It’s Spring Break in sunny Central Florida, so lots of moving and shaking at Chez mimi. Instead of lying around on the beach with the rest of the tourists, we’re in full-bore home improvement mode.The men who are recovering my counter with granite came to make a balsa-wood template of my kitchen today. That was cool. I’ve never seen a butane glue gun before. About two weeks...
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Up on the Roof

Posted by on Mar 2, 2005 in dish | 1 comment Yesterday, I came home to the most wonderful sight in the world.ROOFERS!!There’s no way non-Floridians can understand the sheer ecstasy of real, live, roofers with real, live power tools. I’m sure you all know about the hurricanes (God knows we do; we were told we were going to DIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE immediately for six weeks straight last summer). What you may not know about is the...
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