Progress

So, we have entered 2011 with a big reno project started - the bathroom. It will be amazing and I am super excited about the room, but I realized the other day that I am less than normal. When I wrote how excited I was with the progress in the bathroom, then I was later speaking to a friend that night who asked how close we were to finished - we are FAR from finished ....... but it has come along way baby!

I suppose my excitement comes not from how close it is to finished, but how far it is from what it was! Which I can understand why others aren't sharing my excitement for a half insulated dusty room.

In the past 5 years I really have changed my view on things; maybe it has been Ty and the calm and truth he has brought to my life that makes me have such a bright view of the future; maybe it is our renos that have shown me how great the finished product is; maybe it is my job - which brings me so much pleasure to play a small part in others success story; maybe it is my cat or my dog; maybe it is my nephews or friends babies; maybe it is growing up and finding myself.

..... Or maybe, just maybe, what if it is just the bad times that have made me stronger and more appreciative of all the good things; what if it is the hard times that make me appreciate the smaller things that I never noticed before - blinding sunshine and beautiful eyelashes on babies; what if it is the sad times when you can see so clearly through your tears and pain who is standing beside you - shedding tears with you.


What if .... these lessons are all learned from half insulated dusty rooms?

(hmmm, too deep?)

A little snap shot of where we are ...... blissfully far from finished.



S.