Dan and the kids were here last night and will return this evening to play a little more before camping out in their backyard Saturday and Sunday. Dan and I were up until 2am last night, just talking and talking. It was good. It also makes it a little harder to get going today, even though today promises to include a trip to the library.
The best part of the first day of summer break is that Shannon comes home tonight after a long week in Ohio. Praying for safe travels today as he makes his way back to Kansas City by air, then drives into Manhattan late late tonight. Can't wait to have him home!
Here is a silly first set of pictures for this blog. I kidnapped a closet earlier this week, and we'll finish it up next week. What a bizarre little closet we have where our angled hallway begins. I'm grateful that the builders didn't just wall up that space. They could have done that, and do in most places. However, it's an odd shape, and there has never been a good, designated use for our closet. Covered in stained louvered bifold doors, it was never really going to fit into the new white trim, sleek door, antique bronze hardware theme we've got going on in the hallway/upstairs. So... I took the doors off. I'm sure Shannon will be surprised that I actually filled and sanded the holes where the door tracks used to be before I painted the trim white. Of course, we still need the surrounding trim, but that will come!
What was once a catch-all closet will soon, with the addition of some coat hooks, be a landing strip for our whole family. Backpacks, daily jackets, maybe even keys will live here. Regardless of what we put here, the hallway seems bigger and cleaner and way more modern.
Here we go: Before and after.
And that is day one! ~Andi
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