Kitchen Remodel

When we bought our house, the kitchen really was its weak spot. But we loved the house so much we decided to go for it anyway. Here's what it looked like when we bought it:



And now, after many hours of toil and suffering (as well as three different colors of paint)...behold! The finished product!



We need to replace the red curtains. I'm considering testing my very undeveloped skills at sewing for that task, but haven't gotten the courage yet. We'll also do a valance for the window above the sink, and probably put blinds in there. We had the countertops installed, but by our own blood, sweat and tears, we painted all the cabinets, installed the tile backsplash, and painted the walls (three times). Oh, and I must not forget to mention the fact that when we bought the granite countertops, we switched from a single bowl sink to a double bowl sink, and Brian took it upon himself to do the new plumbing. He rocks.

All in all, it sounds a lot easier than it was. Which is why we got sucked into it in the first place! But we are proud of our work.

Maybe I should keep blogging after all.

I never really decided to stop, but time just kept passing, and passing, and passing...and next thing I knew, it'd been 4 months since my last post. I thought that maybe blogging had served its purpose. Facebooking is the new blogging, right? But then for some reason I decided to go back to old posts, and I found myself getting all nostalgic. Kind of like when I go back and read old journals, except that blogging is different. And then I realized that keeping a blog is kind of like keeping a journal. So, I think I will keep doing it, even if it's just so that I can look back on it in a few years and feel nostalgic for what is now.

So, what is now? Well, I've been recovering from surgery on my right foot. And to pass the time, we've been remodeling our kitchen. And Julia finally started sleeping through the night. Cole's learning to ride a bike, and had his first big fall today...and survived. And Weston's vision in his left eye has improved to 20/60. Get that, folks! This is the kid whose ophthalmologist told us he may never have usable vision in that eye. So maybe the patching we've been doing for the last three years (has it really been THAT LONG?) has been worth it...

From reading old posts, I decided that posts really are better when they involve pictures. So I'll leave it at that for now, and post some pictures as soon as I can get them off the camera.