When Frank's birthday rolled around in December, I gave him a weekend trip to Palm Desert. We have taken a few trips there over the years. This time I had picked the Omni Rancho Resort from a friend's suggestion. Due to this, t ...

For the first time ever since we moved here in 2000 we were able to get a direct, non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Copenhagen when we went back to see our family this summer. Courtesy of Norwegian's new route LAX-CPH reducing ...

Yesterday, I showed you how I wrapped our present for the bride and groom at the wedding we recently attended while we were in Denmark. I also snuck in a picture of the cake, so you know what we had for dessert. Dessert is importa ...

Who is ready for some fluffy polar bear butt? And let's throw the rest of the animal kingdom in there. Well some of them. I am not gonna lie, I am pretty excited about the images I got on our trip to the Zoo in Copenhagen when ...

Remember this summer when I did some Trend spotting in new construction - California 2013 and some more here. That was fun. Let's try that again, but let's go back in time. Waaaaay back. To the 1800s - with some 1700 hundreds th ...

Welcome to the second part of my two part series of our recent trip to Denmark where we visited friends and family and went on a bunch of field trips. Yesterday I shared field trip 1-8, today I am concluding our traveling log w ...

B and I left for our trip to Denmark on August the 20th and arrived the next day on the 21st. We stayed until September 18th, making our trip almost a month long. When I won second place in the Frogtape contest in July, there w ...

How much fun can you have for 16 dollars? That's right. An underwater camera is only 10 bucks and has 27 frames. Developing the images if you put them into an online gallery for download is only $6 dollars a Walgreens. Here i ...

Yesterday, I shared some field trip we did in Denmark during our first month of homeschooling 5th grade. Read about it here. Here is the link to Homeschooling with Netflix Group  When I joined a couple of months ago there we ...

I am taking a little break today and tomorrow from housie stuff to document what we did for fifth grade. You may know that we took B out of 4th grade at his brick and mortar school a year and a half ago. I wrote a two part series ...

That is hella tight! Last Friday Young House Love posted a challenge. Who loves a challenge? Who? what, what, what, what? I do, that's who! It's the unofficial Macklemore challenge. Finally a song about thrift stores (lyrics), r ...

Amber at Wills Casa and I started a word of the month challenge this year. Want to play along? In the beginning of January On January 8th I posted about the word of the month: Unplug! A couple of people have posted and I will f ...