I have loved this day so hard, this day that began with snuggling both my husband and my child and continued with me climbing back into bed for more sleep. This day with challah french toast, and garden planning and seed-sorting while Nini Mo and I. played on the floor and basked in the attention of ALL their grown-ups, when they could be bothered ( Read more... )

Yesterday at around 1:30 in the afternoon aatish2 and I became homeowners.  We now own a condominium in a three family building in Somerville.  The unit below us is now owned by the incomparable coraline and nacht_musik, the unit above by the marvelous beah and mrf_arch.  We are next door to aerynne and ert and small R.  The house is a 15 min. walk to Porter Square, a 20 min. walk to Davis, less ( Read more... )

  I will have more to say about this soon, but Aatish and I are moving and are helping our landlord look for new tenants for our current apartment ( Read more... )

if, while on vacation in France, you buy a jar of delicious acacia honey, make sure to wrap the jar in a plastic bag before packing it into your suitcase ( Read more... )

in the land of exciting developments, I need recommendations for good mortgage brokers/originators.  I would like to talk to several different people, so I want as many suggestions as possible. If anybody has experience working with a mortgage broker who was especially helpful with a multi-family house or with a mortgage on which more than the ( Read more... )

I am sad today.  Not desolately sad, not heartbroken, not sobbing on the floor, but sad in that way that even the bright sun on the clear snow cannot lift.  Sad such that shapes of the icicles cannot move me, and I have to force myself to see the wonder in them rather than cursing them as symbols of a cold dark winter that threatens to stretch on ( Read more... )

It's OURS!!!!!!!

We go to sign the lease this evening. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aatish and I started looking at apartments yesterday.

Now that's all I can think about. Apartment hunting has eaten my brain.

redheadedmuse says that most of the time right now her brain goes something like "baby!baby!baby!random other thing.baby baby baby ( Read more... )

A few minutes ago there was a really stupendous smash-up on my corner, which included the house shaking ( Read more... )

Fresh bread hot from the oven with honey on it and a cold glass of milk?

Officially one of the best things EVER.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love my house?