Tonight I will write a list. I will title it Things To Do in 2009.
They won’t be resolutions, per se, but rather things I want to accomplish within the next year. Because as fast as the years seem to fly by, there’s a lot - big and small - one can do in 365 days.
Among [...]

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Four years ago today I became a first-time homeowner.
My own first house. Well, our own first house… me and Steve had made the big purchase together, as a soon-to-be-married couple. And we made it our home.
I felt old at the time, but I was only 23. That year, 2004, was a big year for me. [...]

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Around this time last year, I came across a copy of Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon, one of my favorite books from childhood. The goodnight theme seemed to tie in perfectly with summer’s farewell, and I wrote the following post to sum up my thoughts about it.
Since we are once again saying goodnight to the [...]

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As of September 5, we will have lived in our house for two years. That’s almost 731 days of staring at a white primed-but-not-painted wall. It’s time for some color.
Last month I asked you, my readers, to help me decide which color to paint my bedroom. MyPerfectColor.com had sent me 5 different paint samples of [...]

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It’s up to you! (thanks to MyPerfectColor.com):

The colors (in the can and on my wall):
1) Benjamin Moore 1676 - Northern Air:

2) Benjamin Moore HC-67 - Clinton Brown:

3) Benjamin Moore HC-9 - Chestertown Buff:

4) Benjamin Moore HC-159 - Philipsburg Blue:

5) Benjamin Moore HC-127 - Fairmont Green:

The back story:
Steve and I have lived in our current home [...]

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