Home Improvement

I love my house. I really really do. I love it even more because we can tear stuff down and rebuild it, I love that I can paint it whatever color I want and not worry about how many coats of white paint it will take to cover up when it comes time for the military to say, HA, you are just getting used to this place, time to leave!! Seriously, my bedroom is orange and purple. Anywho, we moved in and thought the kitchen was too closed off, so we knocked a giant hole in it and created a window. I love being able to do that!

Men at Work. Unfortunately they would not wear toolbelts, so I could not heckle them and pretend they were strippers. Not that I would do such a thing. Ever. Nope.

See how there was a wall blocking my sight from the kitchen to the living room? This made me paranoid. I am a crazy paranoid person and even more so when my kids are not in my line of sight. Call me a crazy helicopter parent, tell me I am stunting their growth emotionally, call me what you will. I am what I am. So my husband put a giant hole in the wall to make me happy. This is why I love that man. You have no idea the crazy he has to put up with from me. He does not tell me whatever my idea is will not work, he simply figures out a way to make my ideas work. Even if I have not thought something all the way through.

Much better, do you not think so?

For that reason and many more, this turned out a success. Now I have him downstairs tearing out closets and knocking out entire walls attached to staircases. Did he tell me no? No sirree. He looked at me, said I am not sure how this will work Melissa, but okay. And he took a sawzaw to it. Gosh I love him. He does not try to keep me away from the action like other guys would have. He lets me help him. Mostly it is him and his best friend (whom I commonly refer to as husband number two)  working on the basement to make me happy, but I help when I get the kids settled into something to keep them busy or down for a nap. I can not wait until this new project is finished so I can post before and after pictures. It is a little daunting because this is the biggest project we have done since moving in, but baby steps. :)