PS: I have also fallen in love with these floor lamps: Lamp 1 and Lamp 2. More updates as I keep browsing this pensieve...

"Saucer-eyed" would be a good word to describe the girls as they looked at the floor plans and artist's conception (sadly, no photographs) of the house that will become ours. Kim summed it up nicely: "That room you're giving me looks to be the size of our old apartment!" Well, not quite that big, but certainly luxurious in comparison. Both girls ( Read more... )

So this morning after the girls had left for school, Harry and I filled travel mugs with coffee and set off to look at yet another house. We traveled up local roads toward the northeast, then turned off Lavista Road and made four turns through a peaceful, quiet little neighborhood into a cul-de-sac, where we beheld ( Read more... )

Harry's at the Portal, doing Quidditch. I've given the girls some cut-up veggies and ranch dip as an afterschool snack, and am now working on defrosting pasta and sauce for dinner. We looked at two houses today - one was in Buckhead and was TOO big and fancy, TOO mansion-like, with an elevator and a gated entrance - the other is a possibility, ( Read more... )

PS: That Mother's Day card Lisha had made? Harry found it in the kitchen trash this morning, all crumpled up. I don't know if it's a good sign or a bad sign - if Lisha's getting past her hurt feelings, or nurturing resentment, or maybe a little of both. But it made me sad. The card had been glued and drawn and decorated with such care. All ( Read more... )

We looked at two houses today. One was over on the west side of Atlanta, instead of being northeastern where I want to be - nice enough neighborhood, but I'm totally unfamiliar with that part of Atlanta, my travels have always taken me north and northeast - and even if I got over the region issue, it was that bit too small, and on a lot that wasn' ( Read more... )

Well, we've had a lovely dinner, and we're all very stuffed and lounging around in the living room like stuffed things. The girls tried many new things alongside us, for which I am very proud of them. Elk and antelope - both very heavy, gamy flavors; the girls tried each and left the rest uneaten, and none of us asked for seconds. Venison and ( Read more... )

So this morning, after breakfast, Lisha asked if she could call her mother for Mother's Day. Kim tried to dissuade her, saying, what do you want to call for? she don't want us, she threw us away. But Lisha was insistent: it's Mother's Day, I want to call Momma and wish her a Happy Mother's Day. So Harry and I... well, we didn't want to tell her ( Read more... )

Today is our Kim's birthday, and so far I think she's had a good day. We started it out with a good breakfast, and her presents waiting for her - she's never really gotten presents, so she was delighted by that. Harry got her a big huggable Steiff teddy bear, and I got her a set of young-lady pearls, necklace and earrings, and Lisha got her (with ( Read more... )

Dinner's still not ready, so I figured I'd post this: this is the dress I got for Kim, only hers is more of a champagne color. No, it didn't cost quite that much: it was on clearance. But still "up there". And yeah, the price made Kim's eyes bug out of her head. But I told her, she is a beautiful young lady, and she deserves a beautiful young ( Read more... )