To illustrate the insanity, we currently have 7 – no, wait make that 8 – home improvement projects ongoing. Some of them are out of our hands (we’re waiting on people who know what they are doing), but a lot of them are all ours, baby. We’re trying to get what we can done while we have nice weather. Are we crazy? Yes, yes we are. I don’t really expect we’ll be able to cross everything off the list this year, but I’d really like to make a good effort for it.

I used to hate this house. Hate it. Ask Den, he’ll tell you – I would have huge crying fits over how I was stuck in this old, ugly, wretched house. It needed SO much work it was just overwhelming.

But today I realized I’m really quite grateful for this huge, ongoing project in my life right now. If it was all done what would I do with my time, where would I put all this energy and planning thought? It is so nice to have all these things to work on, and to see real progress. I’m starting to feel some pride in this house, and that is a fantastic distraction from everything else.

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Today my little girl, Zoe, is 4 years old!! I really can’t believe she is 4 already. She was such an adorable little puppy, and she grew into such a beautiful lady. Still crazy and missing some marbles, but that just means she fits in with this family.

Who knew that this…

… would turn into this?!

I made the mistake just now of flipping through her puppy pictures and I’m getting all teary now. Happy birthday, baby girl.