When Thaddeus was born I was a diaper snob. OK, I was a name brand snob!  I wanted only the best products for him. He was my first-born and at the time he was going to be our only child and I wanted to spoil him. We bought all the name brand products, best of the best, and never looked back. when it came to diapers we were the same way. Name brand only, no store brands would work for us.  We were even down to just two name brands that we would use but that was more because we had problems with one of the major name brands. We knew we went overboard on pretty much anything that had to do … [Read more...]

If you've watched my feeds; Twitter and Facebook mostly, you will know that while getting our living room ready for some painting we removed a huge mirror from above our fireplace and found a hole! It was a pretty big hole, about 36" by 32" once we squared it out all the way around.  This wasn't something we were looking to find behind the mirror, but we were also happy that the mirror wasn't glued to the wall! As you can imagine, this put a little damper on our painting in the living room because, well, we needed to patch this hole before we could even think about painting. Neither … [Read more...]

We purchased our home back in the summer of 2009 and when we moved in there was one neighbor on the side of us, the other house was vacant. It was kind of nice to have the one neighbor because he had thee kids; one older than Thaddeus, one about the same age as Thaddeus, and the other one was a couple of years younger. The only bad thing was it was a divorced family so the father, who was our neighbor, only had them ever other weekend. Then he moved. We were left with two vacant houses next to use, but right about the same time we found out that someone had purchased the other house. I … [Read more...]