I'm extending the de-lurk through tomorrow, since I had technical difficulties and couldn't remind you all yesterday. Comment! Comment! Comment! Tell me who you are, how you got here, anything you want.
From Academomia, I copy a question:
"If you had free childcare for 24 hours and an unlimited budget, what would you do?"
Well, I'd like to sleep in but wouldn't want to waste the day. After consultation with H-Mama, we decided this is the plan: we'd spend the morning interviewing contractors & landscapers. We'd hire someone to raise our house, dig us a new foundation which would allow for an actual dry, usable basement *see below*. We'd hire some handy landscapers to pull out the overgrown tangle of garden beds and make happen the stone walls and perennial beds we've been seeing only in our mind's eyes since we bought the place. We'd also hire a crew of nice painters to paint my garage and finish stripping the two lovely 100+ year-old step-back cabinets of the lead paint. We'd pay all these nice contractors in advance (usually risky) with our unlimited budget and let them do the work later in the month.
Then, with our minds at ease finally, those tasks taken care of, we'd spend the day touring the plant nurseries selecting our landscape. We've got 10 acres that we want to fill with trees, gardens, outdoor rooms, and a hot tub/ sauna house. We need to select trees under which to bury Pequita's placenta, and what little we have from Monito's birth (just the belly button stub, since they forgot to save us the placenta.) Hey, it's not like we made a stew out of them or anything.
Then a nice dinner with wine on the way home, arriving back at the house just in time to nurse down the babies and go to sleep.
Perhaps this stretches the limits of the question, but we got a little caught up in the fantasy. It was a nice 10 minutes discussing it, though. Thanks for the idea, Becca!
*Our 150 year old farmhouse has has a river running through it for the life of the house. Blech. Very Bla.ir Witch, eh? 
It was hard to hang our beautiful tankless hot water heater down their, but I think it gives the space a tiny shred of respectability, don't you? (Don't answer that.) 
It was hard to hang our beautiful tankless hot water heater down their, but I think it gives the space a tiny shred of respectability, don't you? (Don't answer that.) 
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Hi Daughter,
Dad has taken some time to show me how to leave a comment. And I saw one from cousin Jillian! This is exciting. Can a gray-haired (at least roots) Grandma get aclimated to the Web and it's communication modes? Well maybe. Since Dad is forcing my fingers to write this message, I'll type something else later away from his prying eyes...
Mom
Hey girls!
It's Shawna and just wanted to say I visit often to get the skinny on what's going on!
You're doing a great job at posting - despite having your hands full!
Talk soon,
Shawna
And so I delurke. I am fascinated with the 2 kids so close together thing. I think I found you from a link on another blog, from a link on another blog, so 2 steps removed or so. Not really sure. i do not have a blog because, well, I am lazy. I would love for someone to chronicle my life like you have done for yourself, but it is not going to be me or my husband. Your babies are beautiful.
Glad you enjoyed the question! I love your answer... very well thought out and elaborate.
I also enjoy your site. Having two babies so close in age certainly is an adventure!
Mom! welcome to the computer age!
Shawna, nice to know you're keeping up with us.
Wendie, clearly, my chronicling is sporadic, but I do love having it all written down. When Homestead Mama and I can't agree when some milestone happened, we look it up on the blog. I never stop being fascinated by the two babes being so close together, either.
Becca, living on a budget makes for a roich fantasy life. As a grad student I'm sure you know. :)
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