One reason we bought our house is that it requires very little work given its age (although more than we thought. Cursed ice-dams and sometimes wet basement!). The previous owner had great taste and painted the house in colors that we would not have been bold enough to choose ourselves, but which we love. Except [...]
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The Garden
July 12th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Garden, House
When we first moved in, one of my priorities was to fix up the front garden, which, at the time, was best described as a thistle patch. I took a great deal of care choosing a handful of perennials and grasses and grandly told people “I’m planting a garden”. Torontonians and Chicagoans would murmur approvingly [...]
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Cheerios
March 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · EDG, House
It has been a week of firsts. Eleanor started crawling, started waving (that weird, hand-folding wave that, for whatever reason, grown-ups use with kids. Eleanor now waves to herself because that’s what she sees. She doesn’t yet get that just as we wave to her, she should wave to us) and started saying “Da da” [...]
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Updates
November 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · EDG, House, Northfield
Hi all. Sorry we’ve been slow on the blog front. Nothing worthy of a dedicated blog post has happened recently, so this is merely an update post. 1) Ellie is a getting a lot more hair. That’s her sitting in a Bumpo, courtesy of Aimee and Ives. Thanks guys (she loves it)! 2) We took [...]
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Rain
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · House, Northfield
I’m sitting on our (enclosed) front porch, watching the rain, the first rain since we’ve arrived. The porch has quickly become our favorite place to hang out. We usually bring our breakfast out here and read the Sunday Times which, with Ellie on the scene, really does take us the whole week to get through [...]
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Contingency (EmJC)
May 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · House, Northfield, Uncategorized
We removed the “inspection” contingency from our purchase agreement on the house today. Barring disaster, it’s ours! We are now legally obligated to blow our life’s savings on a 90-year old house with a 30-page inspector’s report. I could bore you to tears about everything we’ve learned in the past 6 days. We now know [...]
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Fetonyms (EmJC)
May 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · House, Pregnancy
My old boss from New York warned me about fetonyms (the name given to your baby in utero). Their child’s fetonym was Luigi (never quite explained to me – they’re not Italian, nor are they plumbers or video game addicts). These soon-to-be-parents became so accustomed to calling their Luigi, “Luigi”, it stuck and the child ended [...]
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The Plan
April 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments · House
Our to-do list for 2009 included Daniel getting a job, having the baby, Daniel finishing his dissertation and then moving to X. So far, the job is at Carleton College and X is Northfield, Minnesota, population 17,000. The baby and dissertation are still under construction (anticipated to be completed 5/19 and 6/17 respectively) but we [...]
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