Yesterday I realized that the carpet installation at my moms house was a week earlier than I thought it was. After dinner, I grabbed a ladder, brushes, and set to work. I made my way through my entire Beatles collection, some TSwift, Kelly Clarkson, U2, Neil Diamond, Enya, and 7 conference talks. I haven't spent so much time completely alone in a long time and doing a service project in solitude was really good for me. I had a lot of uninterrupted time to really think about the "current events" of my family and came to a few resolutions. Extended time to ponder is a welcome commodity and doing something creative and purposeful while I pondered aided my thought process and the conference talks invited the Spirit. 
I worked into the night and well into the early morning hours. The living room, halls, baths and kitchen can wait, but even though I'm really tired today, I'm so glad I finished the bedrooms.
It's like a new house :) and smells so fresh now. No more overbearing combo of febreeze and multiple air freshener/pet odor/stale smoke. Just fresh paint and carpet. Once the paint and countertops are done, I'll get in there and deep clean. All of the window sills are black from doggy feet. Gross. I had my plumber at my house fixing a leaky tub drain and to thank me for all the business referrals I have sent his way, he stopped at my mom's house with me on his way out and fixed the broken sink drain for free. So nice!
Other excitement, let there be light!
I had 3 lights added to the kitchen and the existing light fixtures converted to LED's. 3 new lights still use less energy than one regular can light.
Unfortunately, the installation required a drywall patch. So this is my kitchen right now. And I still don't have countertops on the island because we are waiting on the cabinet guy to cut the hole out for the sink. Once that's done we should get rolling and have new counters in. Hopefully before school starts and my kitchen goes back to being my "office".
Lots of things in progress around here.
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Both houses look amazing. Solitude and the quiet are perfect refreshers and ways to hear God. I love your heart. When do your parents move in?
Really wishing you were my neighbor. Someday, move northwestward.
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