The holidays!!

Today is my last day of work before the Thanksgiving holiday. Five uninterrupted days of bliss. And work.

There is so much to do! I've got about 12k more words to do on my novel and I've got cookies and pies to bake. And some sort of out of the ordinary breakfast for Thanksgiving morning. I've got a hallway and kitchen to paint. And some Christmas decorations to hang. And a list to make of all the rest of the things that need to be done before the big party in two and a half weeks!

Chris is going to work on the office. As in cleaning it out so it could actually be used as an office/guest room. He/we are also going to install a new programmable thermostat, new smoke alarm, new timers, switches, and switch plates. That'll be lots of things to take pictures of and post on here.

I'm really looking forward to it all. Even though, I'm slightly nervous about Thanksgiving dinner with his family. Eeee!

Watch how the house changes

Chris and I moved into his mother's old house in August, the house had been hers for 25 years, so it was also Chris's boyhood home. There's lots of work to be done there, which makes me rub my hands with glee, cause boy to I love some home improvement.

When we first moved in, I had this idea for a blog that's main purpose would be to track all the changes we make to the house, so in three years we could look back and be like "Wow! Look at all we've done!" So I've been meaning to start this blog for months now, but haven't gotten around to it. Most likely because we haven't gotten around to much in the house yet. But things are changing. We've got the annual tree trimming party coming up and things are starting to get done.

Chris has made some amazing strides to the outside of the house already. I feel guilty that I haven't chipped in as much time, but I've been struggling with my NaNoWriMo novel. (I love doing NaNo, but sometimes I wish it was in April or something. So much goes on in November it is hard to commit to so many hours.)

I'll do a few more posts to show some before pictures of when we moved in and the few inside projects we've gotten to, as well as all his work outside.