Has it only been six weeks?

I haven't posted in six weeks, which has seemed to me like eons, but maybe not so much to those of you who are living in homes with strange luxuries like roofs and a lack of construction debris.

When last we spoke, our house had no attic or roof on the left-hand side, making it wide open to the elements. Since then there have been lots of stops and starts that brought the house to this:

A second story, but still no roof.

Then this:



The shell of a new kitchen, but still no roof.

Along the way, I learned how to hang insulation and I did a lot of clean up both inside and outside the house.

Fast forward (because it's too depressing to relive every backbreaking day, especially for Ken and his dad) to today when the roofers showed up. Cancel Christmas. I have everything I need, a healthy family and this: