Ending Summer

 
It’s the last day of summer vacation for all kids in JCrewviille.  Weeeeee!!!!
 
Next week I take back the house.
 
No more scrambling to feed the neighborhood kids. No more black feet and bloody scabs. No more exhausted crying spells from back-to-back sleepovers.
 
Yet no more lazy mornings sipping coffee with a bed-headed, boney-butted, pj-ed lump in my lap. [...]

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Buying the Carsons’ House

So, my house…it seduced me. My husband and I were uncertain about moving here, so we’d take long drives up from Chicago and cruise the streets and poke around.
 
JCrewville is so pretty.  It looks like a small New England town with big trees and old houses –not a McMansion in sight. Leafy, with sidewalks (on which to [...]

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For the Love of Cooking

 
 
 
I once had this boyfriend who used to mock the contents of my refrigerator.  Whenever he’d come over, he’d make a big deal of opening the door just to see it there was anything new in there.  And there never was –just one dried-out jar of mustard, an old bottle of champagne and about 26 packets [...]

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