All good things must come to an end....

This is Wayne, our general contractor.

Besides sticking us with some last minute expenses and doing a shoddy paint job, Wayne is a good guy. A very talented carpenter, fairly honest and Maddy absolutely loves him.

For awhile there, every night she would thank God for Wayne in her prayers. I told him that once and I could tell he was just tickled in his never-say-three-words-when-you-can-say-two sort-of-way.

Wayne started doing an attic addition to our house the last week in January. It was supposed to be done by April. It is now September 9th and the plumber is coming tomorrow to fix our shower....

But, we are almost there. On Saturday I hung up our clothes in a closet for the first time in seven months.

So mom, here are the pictures I promised I would send. The walls are still bare, but we are working on making our house actually cute.

This is part of our kitchen. There used to be a wall where the bar is now and that room had wood paneling and was painted a ghastly gray. An improvement, no?

This staircase is located in what used to be a coat closet and a master bedroom closet. There is built-in bookshelves on the top and bottom and they are my absolute favorite thing about the whole addition.



This is the new staircase, and a few pics of upstairs in its still bare glory.




When we get it decorated sometime next year I'll post pics and you can all admire our darling abode. So until then.