de Jong Dream House

Thank you for all the kind comments regarding my post about the ninth anniversary of my brain injury. I was thinking about the prayer that ...

Nine years ago I was an associate marketing director for a pretty well-known publishing company. I had just turned in the final manuscript...

Our builder just informed us that our home won first place in the Green Home category for the local Home Builders Association awards! ...

Like most of the world, we were horrified by the events in Newtown, CT  on December 14, 2012. To be honest, I limited my exposure to th...

Looking at other home build blogs we sometimes think to ourselves what if money were no object to improve the performance and quality of o...

We're doing our best to make our blog as friendly as can be. We've taken some good advice and added a new About Us page. You c...

I've had a lot of fun playing around with PicMonkey  lately. It's been a great help as we've started putting watermarks on our p...

Today is my 41st birthday. I realized this morning that I am comfortable with my life. I love my husband, my son, and my daughter-on-loa...

Some little big news... The De Jong Dream House now has its very own domain. Since the blog has grown significantly we decided that a proper...

Welcome to Mehitable Days When we first started blogging, it was mostly for our own memory of why we made the decisions we did, and so t...

Now that the holidays are over, I'm finally taking the time to post about some of our latest projects. Today I'm going to write...