Okay so yes I admit, it's been a while. I don't really keep up with this blog like I intended to do in my first year of marriage! We have already been married 5 months!! I still can't get over how fast time is truly going. A lot of things are going on in our lives right now. My brother & sister in law are living with us for the time being, I'm back in school, my photography business is blossoming, Patrick is loving his job, and we will celebrate our one year anniversary in our home this Sunday!
It's been one year since Patrick & I were in an attorneys office with a bunch of crazy people fighting over things that were way over our heads! We honestly didn't think we were going to get the keys. We were both sitting there in a cold room, around a huge table, about to loose our breakfast! Well all was fine and we ended up with the keys to our first home!! I have honestly loved every second of owning our home. From the decorating, to re arranging furniture, to cleaning (yes, with time I know this will get old). Naturally, now that a year has come and gone we are ready for some renovations! Some big, some small. We bought an older home that needed some work for two reasons. 1. Because we wanted to make it our own. 2. Well, we couldn't afford a brand spankin' new house!
What's on the list? Well I'm glad you asked!
1. New tile in both of the bathrooms. Right now it is peel and stick. Yuck!
2. New siding/ stucco on the front of the house. We haven't decided which we are going with yet.
3. New interior doors. The doors we have now are ugly, brown, and you could punch a hole right through them, so they have got to go!
4. New counter tops in kitchen. We currently have purple laminate. Enough said.
5. New (matching) appliances. Everyone of our appliances are different & they don't match. So I would like to get stainless steel (matching) appliances :)
6. New vanities in the bathrooms.
7. Eventually we would like to replace the carpet & hardwood floors in the house with matching hardwood throughout.
8. New sofa & entertainment system.
9. Landscaping, Covered patio, and concrete an area for a patio in the backyard.
10. Wired lighting for the front garden. We bought these solar lights and since our front garden gets
none barely any light, those were a WASTE of money!
11. This is kind of on the top of the list, but I will just put it down here. I would LOVE to turn one of the spare bedrooms into my office/at home studio. Right now I have my desk in the laundry room along with the dogs kennels, washer/dryer, hot water heater, countertops, and bookcase. Let's just say I'm a little cramped! I have this luxurious idea in my head of how I want the space to look and honestly I have been losing sleep over all the ideas I have.
This list will not get completed right away, after all, these things require lots of money! In between saving for ourselves, saving for a baby, saving for vacation, and saving for this list of rennovations, I know we will get it done (eventually).
Good things come to those who wait! Patience is a virtue! I need to keep reminding myself of these things. Patrick & my parents for that matter always tell me I'm 10 steps ahead of everyone else with my thinking. Which is true and I'm trying to work on living in the moment and taking one day at a time. But I will admit, it is something that is very difficult for me to do.
Nate just arrived to spend the day with me, duty calls!
I will write soon,
-Rach
