Alive & Well

It has been a few days! A lot has been going on but I haven't had the energy to write about it. I am just checking in now to let you know we are still alive & well - for the most part!

Tonight a couple friends are coming over and we will take the tree down in the front yard - it is not alive & well. Hopefully it will go smoothly!

The updates for our Home Study are still in the works. There are a lot of schedules to coordinate, the psychologist is away on vacation and we are totally swamped over here. I think it will all come together in the next week or two.

Our house still looks like this (below) because we unfortunately have to repaint the LR, entry and hallway because the paint was the wrong color (the color we picked is right but the formula in their computer was wrong) so our 2.5 gallons of paint we put up was much too light and is more like a cream color than a tan. Very discouraging!!! :( We had the paint remade and now it is the correct color and we just need to finish the job right. We have had a couple of days to come to terms with it and decided to just take a couple of nights to work on it together. Our goal is to try to complete this redo as well as painting the ceiling before our last Thursday work night later this week (10/25) so we can put our house back in order a.s.a.p.


The positive news is that last Thursday on the Work Night, our SS friends helped us so much by installing a floor in our bathroom and the closet system is up and ready for use in the Kids' closet. What a blessing (& relief!) to two expectant parents!

New Floor in Bath

New Closet System for Kids' Room

So that is the short-version update. We would appreciate your prayers at this hectic time over here! More updates to come soon - including an exciting update about the Matching Grant Challenge!