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Has it really been almost two months since my last post?  Bad, bad blogger…. :(  For those of you following our home building adventure, please don’t think this is due to a lack of activity ~ We have been very busy!  In fact, I was told last night that our drywall crew will be doing the final sanding today inside the house and the walls will be ready for us to prime this weekend!  The inside of the house looks TOTALLY different now that the drywall is up.  Now more cutting corners by walking through walls to get into rooms!

Drywall has always seemed like the “home stretch” part of our previous remodeling projects so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we are in the final stages of buttoning things up.  We’ve been living in our motor home so long that I have to remind myself that there is this fabulous new house just steps away that we be able to live in some day very soon.  How cool will it be to wake up to the sounds of the lake right outside our bedroom window?  It seems like a crazy dream to us at the moment.  Our patience is wearing thin and the motor home seems to be extra small lately.  Each day this week I’ve been waking up early to stain pine ceiling boards before heading to the office and stain another set when I get home each evening.  I keep telling myself to just keep my head down and make some kind of progress everyday and eventually that “second wind” will kick in for both of us.  Once we have our Certificate of Occupancy we might just take 6 months off to recover from this home building grind and spend our days playing hide and go seek in our big house :) 

I can remember feeling this same “burnout” when I was just 600 ft away from the summit on Mt Rainier.  It would have been SO easy to just stop climbing and curl up to take a nap thinking that it might not be worth the effort to make that last final push to the top.   But reaching the summit was worth every labored breath and every step that it took in that last and final hour.  I had to reach deep into my soul to find the strength I needed to keep going.  And every clear sky day on my way home I am reminded of just how strong I really am when I see my mountain smiling back at me through the daffodil fields in Sumner.

Tools of the Trade

 

The Entryway Wall

The Stairwell heading down into the basement

Dining Room

Master Bedroom

Jacob hard at work on the kitchen ceiling

 

My Inspiration!