Pass Me a Tissue, Please

October 12, 2013

Watching the Pirate puke all over Cool Dad the other day really brought back some memories of my own childhood. There was nothing like growing up in the 70’s. I am the youngest of my parent’s three children and the only girl. Having older brothers meant I endured excessive amounts of torture. They would deny […]

Ridiculous Extremes of the D.C. Real Estate Market

October 09, 2013

Also published on the Huffington Post ~~~~~ The D.C. real estate market continues to move along at a very swift pace. Our market is nothing if not efficient and we consistently prove here that there is no such thing as “bad” real estate — only bad prices. But I’m finding there’s a caveat to that […]

Little Pirate Lessons

This morning I woke up and I feel like I suddenly have a new kid. She knows all these things and I have no idea how this happened. Sort of reminds me of when I was training the dogs, I’d say “sit” 10,000 times and they would look at me and tilt their head. Then […]

Parental Law Breaker

October 03, 2013

We went to the doctor today. It was the Little Pirate’s 15 month checkup. In addition to learning that my 5’5 body has somehow birthed a giant whose height is off the chart at a whopping 33.5 inches, we also got the car seat talk…which I tuned out. If people weren’t so distracted in their […]

Building a House 102: The Nitty Gritty

October 01, 2013

Also published on the Huffington Post Welcome back to my Land Development Training. I’m gleefully happy to report that the land agent from last week who changed the property details based on my questions has also dropped the price on those lots by 33 percent. Now, if you were the seller of that property and […]