So, I have been feeling incredibly overwhelmed as of late. Aaron has taken and started and new job, life at work has been incredibly demanding, and we had to completely demolish all of the interior walls and roof of our house by Sunday to have it ready for the framers to come today.
While knocking down walls of a house that has been somewhat of a horror since we bought it is deeply gratifying and very therapeutic it has a tendency to lose its thrill in about ten min. ( which is approximately the amount of time it takes for your arm to decide it doesn't like swinging a sledge hammer over and over.) Needless to say we were in WAY over our heads (more than just being covered with insulation) with this demo thing.
But the past few days I have mostly been overwhelmed with a very deep and profound gratitude to those of you who have shown us such an out pouring of love, support, and sheer man/ woman power. Gratitude to those of you who gave up your weekend and braved the cold, the dark, the snow and rain, the itchy insulation and all the dust to help. Gratitude to neighbors who let us borrow their power because we had none, to those who called the city planning commission in our behalf, and for putting up with our "mess."(however I think that you would all agree that disaster is a more appropriate description.) And gratitude for your spouses who I sure sacrificed their weekend plans as well.
I don't think I can possibly describe, how grateful we are to all of you. So I will leave you with this. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts, you were truly and answer to our prayers.
While knocking down walls of a house that has been somewhat of a horror since we bought it is deeply gratifying and very therapeutic it has a tendency to lose its thrill in about ten min. ( which is approximately the amount of time it takes for your arm to decide it doesn't like swinging a sledge hammer over and over.) Needless to say we were in WAY over our heads (more than just being covered with insulation) with this demo thing.
But the past few days I have mostly been overwhelmed with a very deep and profound gratitude to those of you who have shown us such an out pouring of love, support, and sheer man/ woman power. Gratitude to those of you who gave up your weekend and braved the cold, the dark, the snow and rain, the itchy insulation and all the dust to help. Gratitude to neighbors who let us borrow their power because we had none, to those who called the city planning commission in our behalf, and for putting up with our "mess."(however I think that you would all agree that disaster is a more appropriate description.) And gratitude for your spouses who I sure sacrificed their weekend plans as well.
I don't think I can possibly describe, how grateful we are to all of you. So I will leave you with this. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts, you were truly and answer to our prayers.
4 comments:
Oh man! Check out that picture! Your poor house! I'd be overwhelmed too. If you guys need more help, we don't live so far away. (Although, we're kinda outta the loop down here.) Or if you just need to play games and eat food and get away from everything, we're good for that too! We even have a spare bedroom.
Wow! Bobby and I are just starting to tear apart our new house and remodel some things, so I can completely sympathize. It's exhausting in so many ways! We're holding out that the end will be better than the beginning. Good luck to the remodeling in the North country!
you have no idea what you are getting yourselves into.
By the way, I got my home teaching done.
Thats good to know, we were really worried about your home teaching!! :)
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