My View Is Changing

Pictures are throughout the years on this post and throughout the seasons - none are current



I've looked at this view since 2001.









Not all 22 years I've been married. But long enough to be a wee bit nervous that it's going to be different.



We are having a few changes done to our house starting this week and while it's exciting, it's also nervous. Because THIS is my view today!





When we built this room (down below) (way back when Anna was in Kindergarten) we drew it out, daydreamed about it, planned just how it would be for years!





(see this door-I'm on the outside looking in-after the project is done if I took this picture I'd be standing on the screened in porch)


Same with this project starting now. We've dreamed it out, drawn it on paper and talked it through for YEARS. It just feels so weird that it's actually happening!

(This is the way the mud room-unheated, really just a part of the garage-is now)


(see this door? It's going to be gone! Right behind Abigail is the current mudroom/part of the garage but painted pretty)


When I saw them starting yesterday I thought, "oh my goodness, I hope we planned it right. Maybe we should have a few more feet here, or there. Will I be able to see my cherry tree from the family room still." Then I text Scott at work and he calms me down.

So it's starting and I just can't wait. Here is what I'm ***most*** excited about

• sitting on the screened in porch next summer with my feet up and book in my hand with my girls after lunch
• swinging on the swing late in the evening 
• having dinner out there with no bugs!
• a mud room with a place for everything and everything in it's place
• the washer/dryer in the mudroom and outta my kitchen (although I think a washer/dryer in the kitchen is the PERFECT place for real...moving it out makes room for the VERY BEST THING I'm looking forward to.....
• a baking center!!!!!!!  (now this will be the last phase of the project and may take a year to get to because while we have a contractor for all of the other parts Scott is doing the baking center and with only weekends it'll take a L O N G time. (and that's okay)

(right behind me are two folding doors where the washer/dryer are now, the doors will be gone and that's where the baking center will be)


(all of this... it'll be stored in the baking center)


But still my sweet view is changing and I'll miss the house just the way it is now.