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So what do Bryon and I do in these trying economic times? We take out a big loan and redo our kitchen. Actually we've been planning it for nearly a year, but, like so many other things we PLAN to do, we put it off or put it on the back burner and the next thing we know it's a year later. So after weeks of planning and negotiating and meeting with contractors, we began demolition today.

Now this should be lots of fun. You see ... I hate untidy. (I've nearly given up on clean but I can still do tidy.) And things are NOT going to be tidy here for quite awhile - four to eight weeks at least. And I'm a glass-half-empty type of person. I've already called Bryon to complain 'this isn't going to work' because apparently the demolition flipped two outlets - two of the most important outlets in the house - one that keeps our Internet, cable and phone working and one that filters the fish tank that sustains our 60 fish.

I regret that we didn't take some better photos of the kitchen pre-demo. But I did snap a few when the workers left today. Apparently 80 years (yes, 80 ... our house was built in 1926) of tile, wallpaper, wood and chicken wire went into our kitchen.





The night before the demo we let the kids draw on the walls and floors. Actually we only let Jake and Sam. We weren't sure Abby would know the difference between coloring on pre-upgrade kitchen cabinets and post-upgrade kitchen cabinets. But she did know who was responsible. This morning before they demolished the kitchen cabinets, Abby pointed at them and said, "Whaaaa happen? JACOB!!!"