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...

So sweet

Alison in 1977...age 3
Anne in 1982...age 5.

My black and white wall and silhouettes have really inspired me...and I remembered that we had silhouettes of my sis, Anne, and me in Mary Sabra's house- so I scanned them to add to the wall. They were done in 77 and 82 respectively- and they are the cutout kind- not the digital images...so wonderful. Mom will know but I think they were done by Pope Gregory...

Anne, let me know if you want a print...