New Door

Big old shoutout to Anne and Dennis- who JUST finished totally stripping and repainting their front door.

You guys, it is REALLY starting to look amazing. I cannot wait to come and help out once the furniture gets delivered. I am so proud of you two!

Baltimore and Back.

This weekend, V and I drove with Anne to Baltimore to see Anne and Dennis' new house. Long-suffering Eric had to drive up by himself on Saturday.

Can you believe how cute their street is? There's a beautiful Catholic Church on the next block and their house is in the center of the image (the door is the white one near the dead center of this picture). Eric actually took off the storm door, so the door's not white any more, but you get the idea...

This house TOTALLY reminds me of my Philadelphia house- just with one less story. It is uncanny, even the smells are evocative for me- I think that many of the building materials must have been the same. On Saturday morning, we worked on pulling up flooring. There's hardwood in the front bedroom. We did a ton of demo and are FINALLY starting to get there! YAY!

And speaking of getting there, back at the ranch, we are still working on crawling...

YAY!!! Anne and Dennis are Happy Homeowners!

They did it!!! They are officially happy homeowners- I LOVE this house- love it love it love it. I don't know if you can see if, but it has amazing stained glass above the three windows- it is such a cute house.

Totally reminds me of my house on Brandywine Street in Philadelphia- it is detached about halfway back but attached on either side at the front. Small world- I do Stroller Strides class with a daughter of the fam that owns it and she told me about it.

The house has a really nice kitchen with new appliances in it. It's been a rental so could use a new coat of paint.

We are going to see it next weekend- E hasn't seen it before. Northeastern rowhouses. Gotta love 'em.

Startin' Him Out Young

Thank you Uncle Brian!

Had a great weekend with Anne and Dennis, Courtney and her family, and Jane and her family. So glad to be back in the 23220. Traffic on 95 south was terrible on the drive home today.

Vake was a total trooper- it was a weekend of no schedule but he was so smiley and happy!!! YAY.

I've got good pics of Courtney and little V- will post soon!

Explanation

So Eric just read my first post and I think he is surprised and impressed that I figured out how to make a blog (I will point out that I managed to get through law school, I was an associate at a large firm and I can also tie my own shoes all by myself) but he did comment that my first post did not make any sense.

Just to clarify, the crab is one of Maryland's state symbols. Hopefully that puts it in context.