More Flooring

Back in time a lil bit....earlier in the kitchen "before"...

...and the marvelous "after"....

Like I said, we weren't done yet ☺ Next was carpeting in the living room...

Another "before"....

...Us girls got right to work, after we had moved out all the furniture, we started to rip up the old carpeting...

...and scraped up all the old paddin'....

...we of course didn't install ☺ Had some help in that department....

...anddddd....*drum roll please* "after" SO so So much better!

...and so soft on your feet! ☺ Hurray for you Beepa!! Enjoy your "new to you" home! ♥

West Coast Visitor and Lots of Labor

Our cousin Charlotte came to visit from wayyy out on the western coast! Been way too long since we had seen her! ♥

She arrived on a crazy busy labor day weekend...she was put right to work...this was the "before" shot of Beepa's kitchen, before the flooring overhaul...

Everyone that helped heave and hoe and move everything after ripping up the floors...

Tada!! "after"...beau-ti-ful! ☺

and we weren't done yet....

While all that was going on, this big ol' piece of machinery was rented and put to good use!

...up, Up and away...

...hauling away what was cut down....

...Charlotte was a 'bucket assistant'...

...so was Kathy (I had enough sense to stay on the ground, me and heights don't get along well)....

...even got Charlotte drivin' the tractor. ☺

Before she left we were able to squeeze in a night by fire after a day of shoppin'! Finally some vaca time, on her vaca. ☺

Miss her already. ♥

Divorce...

...it's isolating, painful, strengthening, mournful, alienating, freeing, bizarre, shameful, mind-controlling, heartbreaking, defeating, victimizing, selfishness, shattering, angering, frustrating, jealousy, panicky, numbing, scary, brave, listless, relieving, humbling, confusing, bitter-sweet...divorce is life changing.

Little Inspirations

"Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past."

-Joan Borysenko

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

-Agatha Christie