I am realizing just how much this week has been all about the house… in some ways the house has served for a metaphor for a lot of things.
Here’s an update on all kinds of stuff.
All of our stuff has been moved. A gaggle of people come over Saturday and helped us move. There isn’t room to say how glad I was people helped us… It took infinitely less time with all of those hands.
After the move was over, we got pizzas and tossed the football around for a while. I am loving it when there are students using our house. I can see how God can use our home as a place for his purpose in a way that our tiny apartment could never. I can’t wait.
Projects galore. So last week I “accidentally” took out a drop ceiling and Kristen “accidentally” took out a linoleum floor. Oops. This kicked off my first remodeling project on Bailey Street. Friday and Sunday I had some people over to help me hang drywall for a new ceiling… I should begin taping and mudding that today. I’d like to get a coat of primer on it early this week so I can hang the new light fixures, paint the walls, and be done with it. I am glad we decided to do this now…. But it’s come at the cost of not having a bedroom to officially move into right now.
Another project that Mike and Jon helped me with last night was fixing a gutter problem. When it rained hard Thursday night water poured over the gutters… Jon and I installed an extra gutter from the roof and tied it into a new and updraged drain. It’s a little thing, but a big project completed. Many, many more on tap.
The kids… Megan and Paul are loving their new digs. This morning Paul woke up with me and I could here him going from room to room with glee to find new treasures. [Stuff is still in boxes.] He went into the dining room and I could here him say “football!” and then he went to the living room and giggled about another toy.
So, my day off will once again be all about a project. I’m off to Home Depot this morning to get some last minutes tools for this project… More later.
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