Where We Are: A List

• The painting at the new house happened all weekend and it looks amazing...albeit still very messy and looking very much like a construction zone, there is progress and a lot at that. I will post photos soon.
• We've postponed move in to get more done. Our friend that helped us paint has offered to give a day this weekend to help with trim work and prepping the kitchen for painting...which we were just going to do after moving in, but it seems smarter to do it while the whole place is a mess.
• Andy, my brother-in-law patched the rough spot in the ceiling where the cabinets were removed in the kitchen. It looks great though it still needs some surface smoothing and paint...were 75% done with that one!
• It looks like my Dad might come out next week to offer help in the whole "Grieshop Forest Road House Remodel"...thanks Dad!
• Arlo was puking all afternoon yesterday for no apparent reason...maybe a physical reaction to the hectic craziness of our life lately...
• The snow keeps falling, though this weekend is supposed to warm into the 40's so I am hoping for some reprieve.
• Matt and I will be involved with the Michigan Organic Farm Conference this weekend. We had completely forgot about it with all this house hub-bub, but life outside of our house renovations seems to continue....how crazy is that??
• And, I am hanging in there. It has been a rough transition from having lots of help to having none and I feel very pulled between two places, though it feels good to have lots underway and near completion in the new house.

I need to extend a HUGE thank you to Pat, Jim and Andy for all of their knuckle-bleeding, knee-bruising, back-breaking work this weekend and last week! I feel incredibly blessed to have my family so close and/or so willing to travel to help us "raise" our house. It really makes this house so much more of a home.