Welcome 2016!
Wow. It’s been awhile. As I write this I am sitting in the sunroom, looking at our partially dismantled Christmas tree, and at a wet, gloomy day. (Disclaimer here; we ALWAYS have a real Christmas tree as “the” Christmas tree. Now that we have a room with a 14 foot ceiling we have been able to dig our 12 foot tree out of storage – an additional tree for the sunroom, glad to be out of hibernation.)
“The” Christmas tree
Sunroom tree – out of hibernation
It’s been an unusual winter so far. No snow on Christmas, which is not right for a girl who grew up where there are 8 months of winter and 4 months of bad snowmobiling weather. On Christmas Day there was a hardy old soul water skiing on our lake – or one crazy person. I think it was probably a bucket list check off. We’ve had snow, but then we have rain. Two days ago it was 6 degrees with a wind chill of -12. Today, it’s 39 degrees, feels like 35. Typical.
I feel like I should explain my lack of blog posts. We sort of went on a self-imposed hiatus. In the fall it seemed like we had too much going on. We were needing to head off somewhere every other week, for business or personal reasons. We had gotten to a point in the construction where we could spread out a little and start “living” in some of the new spaces – Yay! We were actually further along than we had originally planned (as our daughter reminded us when home in November). The original plan was to build the frame, drywall and a few other things and then work on the rest piecemeal, doing some of the work ourselves. Ha!
Once you get going all you want to do is finish. So there was a real push and pull going on. We kept making decisions and getting things done here and there. We fell off of our builder’s schedule, through NO fault of his. We just weren’t ready to move on with some things.
Now, we are ready and the engines are firing up again! Watch for upcoming blog posts on tile, lighting, the upstairs office. . .lots of new things going on. It’s getting exciting again as we make the final push to be DONE!
Here is what I leave you with today:
THIS YEAR
Live in the Moment
Start Each Day with Gratitude
Laugh More
Create Meaningful Connections
Meditate
Focus on the Positive
Believe It All Will Fall Into Place
Stick to Your Goals
Be Generous
Choose Happy
HAPPY 2016!
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