Families Are Forever

Well, the story of out kitchen continues:

Six months ago, construction workers came to our home and completely gutted our kitchen. Our old kitchen was probably built in the 1940's. Anyway, as of last week, I finally have a kitchen sink, stovetop, and countertops. I've had a dishwasher and oven for about 6 weeks now. For the rest of the time I went WITHOUT any of those. Can I tell you how hard it was not having a working kitchen for that long?

The biggest thing, hands down that I missed was my kitchen sink.. William and I did so much work ourselves on our kitchen project including carrying in all of the cabinets and ovens and installing them; installing the kitchen floor; installing all the kitchen lighting; stripping the radiators and repainting them; tearing down walls and rebuilding new walls; painting the kitchen; plumbing work; hooking up the gas stove; etc., ).

We did hire out some work including dry walling, rebuilding the new ceiling, some electrical and plumbing work, and installing the countertops.

We still have a lot to do, but our kitchen is finally functional! We've been cooking in our kitchen this past week and have been loving it! We're both very happy with the outcome so far and feel very blessed!

There were many times I just wanted my old kitchen back. The inconvenience of it all is hard to describe. However, we are grateful we began this major project, especially because we found very old wiring in the ceiling (knob and tube) and it really needed to be replaced. (When we bought the home, we were told there was new wiring in it.)

We've done so much work on this 100 year old home of ours. It is completely comfortable now and feels so much like home.

I'm so grateful that we can prepare meals the normal way and have others over to share meals with us as well. Today we had the missionaries over, along with another friend, and we served salmon, butternut squash, baked potatoes, broccoli and carrots, and pistachio fruit salad. It was all delicious.


Here's a few photos: