I'm still alive!

Wow, I knew I had taken a vacation from the computer and my blog, but I had no idea it was that long! I just dowloaded pictures from my camera from the last month! I never do that! So I resolve to do better and try and post, and check others' blogs once a week. We've dealt with a lot of illness going around and around again in the family. Bring on Spring! I've been preoccupied lately trying to finish all our home projects that have been waiting for 6 years. I've also started to declutter the house. You don't realize how you've "settled" into a home until you start to think about packing everything! When Mike gets a job as an assistant principal (hopefully within the next year), we would like to sell this house and move shortly after that. We will still be in the York area, but we would like to be near Mike's work and live in a more developed neighborhood. We also want a garage! I've had lots of fun checking out all the homes for sale and dreaming. This is Serena taking charge of the attic wall project. The stairway going up to the boys' bedroom had a damaged wall, so Mike finally tore into it a few Saturdays ago. This is our front porch as of today! It has been in bad shape for over 2 years now and I have bugged Mike and my dad to get it done. Well finally yesterday I started tearing up the stone and that's all Mike needed to take off. Demo work can be really fun! It's the fixing it part that can be tricky. (Especially with an old house where nothing is straight or matching. We found some pretty damaged wood underneath and I can't believe noone ever fell through it. Anyway, I want to keep my blog posts true to the date they happened, so you'll have to scroll down and catch up (if you want to).