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There were threats of a storm, but there wasn’t a drop on this Marcum parade.  Our house was bursting at the seams as 27 Marcums gathered for family dinner yesterday.  Although most of us try to get together at least once a month for dinner, this dinner was special because Chris’s brother, Jared, and his […]

But he wasn’t the real Santa.  He was a fake.  A skinny Santa that takes his beard off on his break and smokes a cig out back.  He can’t scurry down the chimney either….in fact, he can barely get through the door without causing damage.  Our new refrigerator was scheduled to be delivered this morning […]

I think we win the award for the most ghetto entertainment area in history.  For the last 4 months, this is what our family room looked like: A large box that carried all of our mirrors from our apartment to our house was just big enough to hide the router, a slew of cables and […]

Yesterday, I mentioned that we bought some countertop paint and I am back to give my first full report.  I painted our mauve countertops last night.  The whole process was quick!  It only took me 2 hours total including a one hour dry time in between.  Before I spit out the results, let’s rewind and […]

Admittedly, I am no fashionista.  But I still keep a modest-sized pin board entitled “Stylin’”where I collect my wish list for looks and threads next to my massive pin boards dedicated to all-things-home.  And then today I realized, all of my pins on my Stylin’ board have one dominant thing in common: Which begs the […]

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