childhood

Childhood Memories

May 21, 2008
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Is there a certain smell that instantly takes you back in time to your childhood? Maybe it’s of a food that your mother used to make for your birthday, or the way your grandparents’ house smelled when you walked in the door. This is my smell: Lilacs. Until I was 12 years old, our family [...]

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Ace is the Place…

October 7, 2007
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…for matching the copper sash chains in our house! Our windows had been updated with copper coated chains by the PO, but it turns out the upper sashes still had rope chains. The window guys started to replace them with new chain, but they only had silver and asked me if that was alright. Pete [...]

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Clean Slate

September 17, 2007
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Remember our eyesore of a kitchen? Half-painted screaming yellow walls? Wagon-wheel cabinet trim/plate rail that served no purpose, decorative or otherwise? Blue-and-yellow bathroom tile for the backsplash? Exposed wiring in the ceiling? Ah yes, it was quite the site to behold! Not knowing when we will renovate the kitchen, I had to make the kitchen [...]

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