I'm Back!!!

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   So we have been doing some really long over due improvements to our kitchen. As you can see in the before pic, I had some really old border up there and when we tried to strip it, it started taking off the wall! Gotta love old houses. But after 3 1/2 weekends of working really late and getting up really early, we are done!!! Well, with the kitchen anyway. We put up crown molding, texturized the walls, tiled the countertops and back splash, put a trim on the countertops and stained it, put up a new microwave and all new wall decor. We are still going to get an new stove but Sal is waiting for me to clean the old one out.....yuck! So I will get to that really soon so I can get my stove that matches my new microwave. We will take a break for a few weekends and then we are going to put up crown molding in the bedrooms and repaint our room. We are still waiting on our roofer to put on our new roof. So if you drive by my house, sorry for looking like trash and making the neighborhood look bad...not to mention our back porch will get replaced too. So until then, the inside looks fab but the outside...not so fab!
   
   Update on my brother: he does NOT have cancer. They ended up removing a lymph node and a saliva gland, did a biopsy and it came back clear. He will not have to do any preventive treatments but maybe an occasional xray or something.
   
   Brady has one more football game left...thank goodness. This year has not been so successful. We have such talent on our team but if you don't have great coaching, well, what do you do? So we will have a little bit of a break until basketball starts. So until then, I am getting back to my power walking. I haven't had time and it is really starting to show..not going to blog on body issues but ugggggghhhhhh!!!