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20SB Video Blogging Day

Monday, August 17th, 2009

I hope you guys can view this in your RSS feed, but if you can’t click through to see my 20 Something Blogger’s video blog on “What 20SB means to me”. Never heard of it? Check out the network here.
My weekend was hugely successful in that we have our kitchen back!! We can make food! [...]

Posted in Her Life, The Home Videos | 54 Comments »

While the paint was drying

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

When we moved into our first house last year there were a number of things that became immediately clear. Mostly that it really was 100 years old, and in some places you could tell. Some of those 100 year old home things are beautiful- our huge front window is original to the house and, being [...]

Posted in Little House on the Prairie, Me & My Mister, Prairie Style, Stories About:, Things to swear by | 49 Comments »

Breakfast in bed

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

This weekend was excellent for coffee, tea, and comfort. After weeks of incredibly cold “summer” weather we upgraded to cold and rainy- and I finally surrendered.
If summer wasn’t coming to me, I was going to have a day of Fall comfort.
I waded through the tide of yappy black dogs that live on our main floor, [...]

Posted in Her Life, Prairie Style, The Summer of Starting Over, Things to swear by | 41 Comments »

I’m a prizefighter, or didn’t I tell you?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

There are some experiences that put you firmly in a “before it happened” and “after it happened” territory. Moments that define how you look at the world. And they always seem to be moments that start normally enough.

It was St. Patrick’s day, I was 19, and I hadn’t seen Alex in months. Her short spikey [...]

Posted in Her Life, Things to swear by, oh, forever ago | 47 Comments »

American girls are weather and noise

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

There are few trips that I get more excited about than piling into the car to make the pilgrimage to Minneapolis. Living seven hours straight north of the city means it’s the perfect combination: a taste of Big City American Life with NPR flooding the radio that’s just slightly out of reach. It’s the perfect [...]

Posted in Her Life, Prairie Style | 33 Comments »

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