Roller Coasters and Whirlwinds

What a crazy ride this last month has been.  Those of you who know me understand Christmas is my favorite thing in the world.  My house colors always remind me of the holiday season that comes only once but I wish would last all year.  The baking smells, the tree, the planning for the day, holiday meals, get togethers, cookies...you name it. Well this year it didn't really happen for us.  Very disappointing for the momma!  We had no house, no money, no kitchen to call my own. Our suburban broke down the week before Christmas, the week before Christmas Curtis found out his work had run out, the week before Christmas we were notified he had to pay for a truck repair that we didn't have enough money for, we also couldn't afford rent on the place we are fixing and we were also informed that we needed to get all our stuff out of storage.....

But.....so many came out of the woodwork with gift cards, presents, food, you name it!  We took the family up to Danforth and stayed in a cabin, found our tree out in the woods. We were able to stay there for 8 days just our family.  (also able to give the Tripps a break from us crazy Roundy's)  The kids had a wonderful day and it was so nice to feel normal for a while.  

As far as progress on the house, our church has been extremely helpful, they helped with the rent, moving our stuff out of storage, and maybe with our car.  Someone helped with getting Curtis' truck out of jail which has been a blessing since he needs it for the snow removal job that he has.  We'll see how that turns out, it's a bit of a repair and a long story.  We have the girls room almost set up complete with lime green paint and brown curtains....Justin's room almost done and our room ready to be set up. Water can be turned on when the fixtures get installed and Curtis frames in the bathroom. After that we have sheetrock to do downstairs, some more wiring and fixing the floor.  We'll move in without a working kitchen and that is fine with me.

There are no more walls left on the first floor.  We need to finish some electical, sheetrock etc...so we can finish the stairs.  Just lots of little things to do.

at the end of this hallway turn right for the girls room, and left for the bathroom.  Justin's room is straight ahead once you get past the little wall bump with the light switch on it, our room is a right just before Justin's room and directly across from the bathroom.  On the other side of this left wall in the hallway are the stairs going to the 3rd floor.