Except that…well…Thumper is about to outgrow his Accordion sweater and has long outgrown his other sweaters. And I’ve just thrown out two pairs of socks due to acute heel blowouts. And it’s pretty much always sweater and knit sock weather …
Two important developments on the settling-into-the-new-home front: I’ve set up my office and gotten back to the work of writing the next novel. I started this book when I was first pregnant with Thumper, after sending the first novel out …
We’re about 80% or so unpacked now, which feels a hell of a lot better than being totally hemmed in by boxes did. Now we need to hang our chandelier in the dining room, buy a new couch for the …
Please excuse the blog silence while we dig out from under all these moving boxes. Back soon, I promise.
…but we won’t have internet at home until Thursday and settling into a new city with a baby means I can’t really lounge around a cafe soaking up the free wifi. So here I am stealing five minutes in a …
So now you know what I’d been keeping from you with all that stealth knitting a few months back. I hope you like it! It was absolute hell not telling you about it. Or telling you about the two photo …
Texarkana, TX to Austin, TX Day five brought us to Billys brothers house in Austin. The drive from Texarkana to Austin was marked by at least 20 Monarch butterflies crashing into the windshield. Kind of traumatic, driving along and hitting …
If you’re thinking of moving to or within Portland, I have to say…the realtor we worked with is truly fantastic. He spent so much time over the past six or so months, helping us with the house search. Went above …
Memphis, TN to Texarkana, TX Arkansas started out with the best peaches wed ever eaten, bought at a road-side stand, followed by miles and miles of flat farmland. The grass got drier and scrubby and the dirt turned to red …