the end of project week '08

Well, here we are. project week '08 is done, D-O-N-E done! My poor husband worked his butt off every day and completed an amazing list of projects. I was not on vacation so helped some in the evening and this weekend. Some of the great things he got done were: built shelves in the basement to house storage totes, took an old stove and water heater from the basement to the scrap yard, got my windshield repaired, took a cool old church pew to the basement to serve as seating on one side of the large table we have down there, touched up the paint in one of our bathrooms, repainted the trim in the kitchen, repainted the spare room (which was the office), repainted the new office (which was the spare room), cleaned and sorted four, yes I said four, closets, fixed a sleigh bed frame and put it up in the spare room, sorted through countless piles of stuff and reassembled what we determined to be keepable in the newly painted and organized rooms, etc, etc, etc. I'm sure I've missed some things but suffice to say the work has been long and hard and I am so thankful for my husband's willingness to use some of his vacation for maintaining and improving our home. Our favorite part of the week was redoing our new office from a deep purple room with no decorations and random contents to a grayish green color with lots of awesome fishing/hunting/cabinish decorations. This room will serve as my husband's home office but also a place for me to sew, scrapbook, etc. It's got a great little reading corner that we will both enjoy. My husband posted a few pictures on his blog - www.durgsworld.blogspot.com The result of all this is that we are thrilled with the progress and now have a huge amount of items sitting in our garage waiting for a garage sale that we plan to have in a few weeks. We had a garage sale about three years ago, after I moved all my belongings into this house, and we SWORE we would never do it again because it was so much work. But, never say never, because here we are getting ready to have another one. So, thanks honey for all the trips up and down the basement stairs, for tolerating my pickiness, and for continuing to make our house our home. I love you and am praying for relief of all your aches and pain that the week left behind.
God is so good for giving us this wonderful home.

Kendra