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It’s Official: Our Firstborn Has Reached Double Digits

Not sure how time passed this quickly, but it did. M9 is now M10. We’re going to Chicago soon to celebrate. Happy Birthday, my sweet girl!

The Chaos Experiment is Now Fully Underway

Meet Ricky, one of three pets of the feline persuasion to join in on our chaos experiment known as the Dunham family. The other two are Lucy and Ethel. We have yet to meet Lucy because she’s been hiding in the basement ever since she arrived. Ethel is a bit on the cold side (as [...]

All I Want for Christmas is…

This poor gal has had the misfortune to have lost a total of three teeth in the last month. If you’ll recall, this hasn’t been one of the easiest months of the Dunham household, so the tooth fairy, shall we say, has been a bit on the MIA side of things.
The only saving grace we [...]

December 24

Meet Dasher and Dancer, root deer at the ready. Comet and Cupid are on the other side. They will soon be placed in four specific stockings. I saw this on someone’s blog earlier in the week and for the life of me can’t remember who or where. I thought it was pretty cute, though, so [...]

December 23

A present for the girls, to be presented alongside their new Singer sewing machine on Christmas morning. Now then, to clear space for them to set it up in the basement.

December 22

In keeping with all the December crafting photos I’ve been posting this month, I couldn’t help but take a picture of a Christmas ornament I saw on my parent’s tree yesterday. Made by yours truly…in 1988:

Here’s this beautiful creation from the backside:

Craig said it appears I’ve come a long way in 20 years. Boy, aren’t [...]

December 20

No photos today. I no longer have a laptop and didn’t bother bringing the camera cord, so no photos. Sorry.
We’re in Oklahoma, having pulled in at 8:00 tonight. As we were leaving today, I happened to run down to the basement and opened the freezer door. I have no idea why I did this because [...]

Quick! Vacuum Cleaner Help Needed!

Our personal household electrical servants are taking a cue from the house and following suit. This time it’s the vacuum cleaner.
A few years ago I spent tax return money on an Oreck thinking it was time we invested in a good machine. Worst. Decision. Ever.
We’ve had more trouble than anything with that vacuum cleaner [...]

December 16

I saw a whole lot of this tonight:

And a whole lot of this:

Welcome to the next phase of St. Louis’s Highway 64/40 reconstruction project. Twice the commute, four times the headache.

12 Years

Back when I still remembered to wear earrings. And lipstick. And my contacts.
12 years and counting.

For Everyone I Unintentionally Intimidated This Year, I Have a Holiday Gift For You

Here it is:

Apparently I’m only capable of showing proficiency at one home making skill at a time. At the present moment that would be sewing. Tune in next week to see if I remember how to make the one recipe I have memorized and can usually do in my sleep. Not so tonight.
I hear occasionally [...]

December 8

You can be thankful I didn’t post the picture of the cow heart dissection we attended today and instead posted the photo of E5 playing Candy Land with me while the others were in the kitchen with the cow heart. The two youngers were in and out, as I expected them to be. I brought [...]

December 7

This is our humble tree this year. I like to think of it as a 1950’s artificial version of a Charlie Brown tree. As we’re having the entire living room ceiling torn down the day after Christmas  which will involve all kinds of mayhem and mishap and schlepping of stuff all over, it didn’t make [...]

December 6

After the Christmas Concert (aka: “Holiday Program”) of the St. Louis Children’s Choir: three singers and one tag-along. But a cute tag-along, don’t you think?