Out the Door!

Posted by on Jan 6, 2009 in dish | 0 comments For pickup today: two boxes of assorted kitchen tools (including a ginormous clay roaster that has never emerged from the cabinet in which it was originally shoved) and six bags of outgrown, outmoded, outdated clothing (children keep growing, and I have decided that super-high heels are no longer my thing, thanks). Yay! Now if only weight loss were this easy. I have about 20 lbs. I’d be...
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As God Is My Witness, I’ll Never Garage Sale Again

Posted by on Jun 21, 2008 in dish | 5 comments I’m not a complete Philistine. I know that garage sales are a Great American tradition. Some people plan their whole weekends around which garage sales are where and what they hope to find while browsing.My sister decided a month ago that the two of us, our mom, and her MIL would combine for a multi-family, colossal garage sale. So far, so good. I’m in purge mode. Purge resulting in...
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Operation Adult Bedroom

Posted by on Jun 16, 2008 in dish | 0 comments It’s not what you think.DH and I are taking advantage of the fact that both kids are at camp for the next four days to launch Operation Adult Bedroom. And no, it doesn’t mean that we’re installing a trapeze or a mirrored ceiling. Although…Seriously though, if your bedroom in your house with young children is anything like mine, amidst all the adult trappings are an...
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Spring Cleaning

Posted by on Mar 30, 2008 in dish | 5 comments Remember reading about spring cleaning in all the Little House books? You know, drag everything out of the house, scrub the floors, black the stove, wash everything, wash and starch and iron the curtains, unpack the strawticks and wash them, restuff the straw ticks, tighten the bed ropes, etc., etc., etc.?? Seemed like backbreaking work (and probably was), but I’m not sure that those...
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Operation Kerosene Update #4

Posted by on Aug 8, 2007 in dish | 0 comments I have now successfully weeded off the dry sink in my kitchen and done something productive with all those school papers and reports cards and such. The paper flood has been dammed and tidied and filed, and now I can actually get to the cookbooks.I nearly blew up our shredder tearing through pages and pages of old check stubs, credit cards statements from years ago (shamefully, some with a...
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