"Teenagers"

Excellent article about 'teenagers'...   click the link to read it.  Some great thoughts here, wow...  It's nice to see my thoughts in someone else's words ;)

Please read it, I'd love to hear your thoughts about it. 

Nehemiah's First (Official) Day of Kindy

Nehemiah did some Kindy work last year but this is his first official year of Kindy... and, actually, he doesn't have to 'officially' attend K until next year because of his October birthday.  Anyway... this child is ready for school and has been asking all week when school is starting.  We haven't started yet but he did school today and I snapped some pics to share :)

Drawing 'frees' is hard work!

"YES!!!"  He did it!

Concentration...

Oops... glue on the fingers!

I didn't think to take pics until he had finished Math already.  ;)  And we do Science and Social Studies as a group class so he didn't do those today either. 

He is growing up so fast... the time flies by, that's for sure!

Our New Library and School Room

Phase 1... we will come back and add drop ceilings sometime in the future... 

 

View from the library into the Family Room, which is partially done.

 

Let me find a 'before' picture...

Standing in the Family Room looking toward the Library

Family Room area

I know it's hard to picture without a floor plan but basically, if you were looking down from above, you could divide it into six areas.
Top left: exercise area, bottom left:  library
Top middle:  storage, future kitchenette, future bathroom, future laundry area
Staircase
Bottom middle:  family room
Top right:  workshop
Bottom right:  storage

Does that even make sense?  LOL

We are enjoying being able to design the space to fit our needs.  Y'all know how much we enjoy home remodeling projects anyway!

Now, come see us sometime!  We love company!!

Our New Home... in it's current state of 'finishedness' LOL

The Living Room

Another angle of the living room, looking into the dining room and kitchen

Living room view from the loft above

The door to the left is to the master bedroom, the door to the right goes down to the basement.  The stairs upstairs lead to the boys room, bathroom, toy area and girls room.

Dining room, kitchen to the left

Dining room, this door leads to a small deck/porch and to the backyard.

back porch/deck area

Sliding door off the dining room leads to a covered balcony

Kitchen (the table is there as a space-holder... we are trying to decide where to build the island)

The room was painted a mint green (ick)  The darker color you see is the turquoise we are going to use on all the kitchen walls.  The corner cabinet will be painted red. 

The stairs leading up and to the right is the foyer.  This door is to the laundry room.  The foyer also has a coat closet and half bath.

At the top of the stairs, the landing area, this is the door to the boys room.

Boys room

LOL... someone made a 'hammock'...

Door to the boys hideout ;)

Leaving the boys room... bath to the left, then toy area, then girls room at the end of the 'hallway'

To the right... the laundry chute... the littles love this!

Girls room... still have to finish painting and sew window coverings

MaryVance's much anticipated window seat :)

This wall will be teal

The Monster Master bedroom

The Youngers are camping out in my bedroom tonight since Tony and the Olders are gone...

The other half of the room is our sewing/crafting area.  All of those boxes are full of fabric... I have to put some storage shelves up in the basement to hold the fabric... lol

master bath...

view from front porch

view from road

Shots of the back yard