Big day today--our cabinet doors and drawer fronts arrived! To be precise, the 2nd order arrived. The first order had the green ones that w...

Ivy has been super sick the past 3 days: high fever, super achey body, a bit of a cough. She had to miss school today and I'm not optimi...

Picture from 2 days ago...we're missing two under-cabinet LEDs but otherwise the cabinet lighting is all done. We poured some self-level...

Between breech meetings and video analysis/editing and publication editing, we managed to put up the upper cabinets! I also have several set...

I wasn't super hungry in the morning so I decided to keep fasting a bit longer until lunch. And then I enjoyed leftover chicken & be...

I was feeling a bit off this morning, so I thought I'd stay home and take it easy. But then I saw the kitchen walls just crying out to b...

We went to The Place Where Hopes & Dreams Go To Die (aka the Préfecture) and...amazingly...they didn't die this time! We received ou...

I tested about 2/3 of the outlets and switches I had wired, and everything worked! I love that feeling. I joked, "I am so skilled. I ca...

We discovered that baby Inga, in her "Dude, where's my neck?" stage, is Baron Harkonnen's doppelganger. Renovation news:...

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Published 5:32 AM EDT, Thu September 7, 2023 Eric and Rixa Freeze bought and renovated two apartments in...

Just 29 hours left until we will be locking up our apartment door and heading on a long voyage home. First top: family reunion in Canada. Ne...

The house still looks like a tornado went through it because the more we pack and clean, the messier it gets...until suddenly it looks grea...

Imagine this... You and your four children are "convoqués" (summoned) to go to La Préfecture, aka The Place Hopes and Dreams Go ...

A grand pleasure of the summer is when plums come ripe and we can make plum tarts. It's very simple--take your crust of choice, put ab...

Another morning waking up at 6 am. It would be ok if I were going to bed at 10 pm...but I'm not! I took advantage of the early wakeup t...

15,295 steps I've been sleeping poorly, waking up between 4am-6am this past week. I don't know if it's the heat or the noise or...

What would we do without our late afternoon swims? It gives us a short relief from the heat. Once we're back home, the sun is low enoug...

It's HOT!! A high of 91.4 F today (33 C). It doesn't cool off that much at night, either, especially in an apartment without cross-v...

Eric is finally done with the writer's retreat! He helped one of the attendees get onto the tram this morning but otherwise his duties f...

Four of us got our teeth checked at the dentist. Inga had a "micro cavity" that was just starting on one of the smooth surfaces of...