LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

When we moved into this house a year ago, I was quite pleased about having a gas fireplace. (Actually, we have two! There’s one in the basement, too.) The only thing that bummed me out was that the built-in “media center” lacked a MANTLE. Where was I supposed to put my knick-knacks and framed pictures and whatnot?

As you can see in this picture from nearly exactly one year ago, there’s a little “bump” of a mantle barely big enough to set the remote on. (And as you can also see, it’s about time for me to vacuum the blinds again!)

No more, though. My handy enginerd husband built me a beautiful mantle! It’s made of pine, designed to match our rustico style coffee table. I LOVE it. This picture doesn’t do it justice at all – it is gorgeous in person!

I had no idea it’d be so easy for him to build, either, or I would have bitched about it a lot more right after we moved in. He built it in just a few hours, stained it that evening, polyurethaned it before bed, and hung it up the next day. And I threw all this Christmas shit up there within about five minutes of him placing the final screw.

Now, I’m dying to put all that Christmas shit AWAY so I can go shopping for new stuff to put on my mantle! Yay!

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I wrote a happy little post today about how I’m getting ready to paint a mural of Yo Gabba Gabba characters on the kids’ playroom walls. I mentioned penciling in the characters and finding inspiration from other cool mommy-made murals on Flickr, and when I went to publish the post, it just…wouldn’t! I don’t know what the problem is with Blogger, but that’s happened the past few times I’ve tried to publish anything to that blog. It just hangs. And sometimes I can go in later and publish the post from draft, but today, I couldn’t even save the damned post! Ugh! I HATE wonky shit that doesn’t work!

So, I decided to heck with Blogger. I installed WordPress on the enginerdandwife.com domain, imported my Blogger posts and comments, and…voila. Brand spanking new blog that actually works. Featuring ugly standard WP template. I’ll fix that soon. In the mean time, feel free to subscribe to Enginerd and Wife by clicking right here. The old feed went through Blogger, so that one won’t work anymore. And check back in over the next few days – I’m going to document the process of creating the mural!

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