I can’t believe it’s December already. Not only is another year coming to a close, but the holiday season is upon us, and I’ve barely begun to prepare.  Of course, it would be so easy for me to tell you that I’ve bought all my gifts, prepared the menu for my big family dinner and […]
Posted on December 4th, 2006 by Sari
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The holiday season is the easiest time to let the  house go a bit - let things pile up. And there’s always some way to rationalize the bedlam: you were too busy to put your packages away, too tired to deal with the mess, or running late to a holiday party with little time to focus on straightening […]
Posted on December 15th, 2006 by Sari
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We’ve been in our new house for nearly three months now, and the coat closet was just installed. Really. It’s a good thing that we’ve only been using our coats for a few weeks, because believe me, without a proper coat closet, coats are a catastrophe. Throw in a tangled jumble of scarves, hats, mittens, […]
Posted on December 25th, 2006 by Sari
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When I recently changed from a top-to-bottom refrigerator to a side-by-side model, I almost had a mental breakdown. Seriously. For 20 years I’d been accustomed to a certain way of life, and then suddenly, there I was, thrown into an abyss of deep, narrow shelves, when all I wanted were wide, shallow ones. In the […]
Posted on December 31st, 2006 by Sari
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