The past two years...

It's been almost exactly 2 years since I started this blog. A lot of things have happened in those two years! Allow me to bring you up to speed:

My husband and moved to the basement of a 50 acre farm. It was a good and bad experience. We learned a lot, grew a HUGE garden, dealt with mice and raccoons and ants, missed having a view from our windows, fought a wildfire that a neighbor started that moved with frightening speed toward the house. We ended up moving when our renters kept upping the price of utilities until we were paying the equivalent of double rent, just in utilities alone, so we got out of there as fast as we could. My husband, 2 kids, and I were homeless and bouncing around between family for 3 months. This was very hard on our marriage. It was one of those dark times that "makes you or breaks you". We pulled together to get through the storm, and are stronger for it. We feel blessed to have family who allowed us to stay with them.

During this time, I found out I was expecting. We finally found the house we knew we were supposed to buy, but it was a fixer-upper! The family who lost the house had many children and pets, and the doors and walls were all colored with marker, the carpets were all stained and smelled. We tore all the carpet out and repainted everything.

I have to add a thought, since it relates to the name of this blog. We decided to strip, sand, and repaint the cupboards in the kitchen and it ended up taking a LOT of time for this pregnant mom to get to it. For months my cupboards had no doors on them, exposing all the chaotic contents. I have to admit that completely taking off the doors of the cupboards gave me motivation to organize and create a better "flow" in my kitchen . Maybe this blog will likewise help me to see my own cluttered contents, and give me direction to improve the "flow" in my life.

Anyway, the house is almost completely finished. We had our 3rd child here in this house, and my husband graduated from college. Yess! These, of course, are just the larger milestones. Add in about 3 small rollercoaster events per week, and you might get an accurate picture of where I've been the past 2 years.

Let's see where these next few years take us!