What We Did

In 2001 we had two lovely daughters find two lucky men and get married. With one wedding in June and another in December, we had plenty of company that year. The housing market had been hot for a while, and we knew we could sell our house quickly if we wanted to accommodate our growing family by building a bigger home in the Virginia countryside. At the time, we had friends whose adult children had moved back home, not just as couples but as families with as many as five children in tow. We wanted to make certain we could accommodate the grandbabies that soon would arrive in our own family, so we built Poppy's Place, aka Alice Haddow's House for Grownups. Poppy's Place has served from its first moments of construction as an inspiration for the AHHG rules.

A Solution for Boredom

To my dear readers who may be waiting for continued production on this blog but finding it too slow for their liking, you are welcome to click over to my Bits and Pieces blog. You can find it by clicking on the title--"A Solution for Boredom"--to this post above.

My Apologies

Promises, promises. Despite the sweetness in the very sounds of the words, promises become a real drag when they remain unfulfilled. Just ask any politician. Better yet, ask any constituent who voted for the politician. Then ask the press, and they will either condemn or make excuses for the politician, depending on whether or not they like the guy.

I am far from a politician (Please! Call me anything but!); however, I did promise last week to start listing the actual AHHG rules list at Wordpress. At the time, I naively believed it would be a very easy task to accomplish.

The computer guru at AHHG is currently away from home, and I have realized I will need his expertise before fulfilling on the aforementioned obligation. It remains a promise, nonetheless; it's just taking a little more time than I would have guessed. Hang in there with me, and when my computer whizkid returns, we'll git 'er done.

Surprise, Surprise (another title link)

We have enjoyed the great surprise this week of much more internet traffic than could have been expected when first I decided to join the rest of the blogging universe. I have noted visits that span the country and the globe, which of course helps me realize that more than one of us in the world might have reason to feel a commonality with the whole mother-as-maid-forever phenomenon.

I have also read comments here and there that downloading a gigantically large (redundancy intended) list of AHHG rules is not the best option for some of our recent readers. In an attempt to accommodate those visitors who express such dislike of the download (I might even be one of them!), I am going to try to post the AHHG rules a section or so at a time at another website devoted to this concept.

Over the next few days, readers who dislike downloads but who want access to the basic AHHG info will begin seeing the fruits of this effort by simply clicking on the link in the title of this post. Here's to making life easier for all of us!