For some reason I can't up load any photos into my blog. Is there a problem with Blogger? So, until I can, I hope you are satisfied with just me...words.

For the past five months we've been going back and forth about adding on to our house and enlarging the kitchen, pantry and utility rooms or do we simply remodel. Since we are in the construction business you would think that would be a fairly easy decision for us to make. Really I think it makes it harder for us to decide...you see we know too much! My husband says to me something like; we can add on this many feet and remove that wall. That gives me an idea and I say something like and yeah! that would mean we could do this or that. Then we change our minds again. In the mean time nothing gets done.

This all started because we need a new roof. No, let me restate that. This all started because we are going to have to have a new roof. If we add onto the house we still have to have a new roof. If we don't add on and just remodel we still have to have a new roof. If we don't get a new roof we will have the rain pouring in...if we ever get any rain that is.

Well, we decided to add on. January 1 we spent a couple of hours drawing the floor plans for our new addition. We were so well pleased. Then we calculated a ball park figure of what it was going to cost us. (Several thousands of dollars) That night I went to bed and couldn't sleep, because my mind kept thinking about this addition we were fixing to start in the next couple of weeks. That is when I thought to myself, "We are crazy here we've been talking about spending less and we've figured out today how to spend more than we can possibly afford and we are not doing the addition." January second I said to my husband last night I thought about the addition all night long." "So did I" he said. Then he added; "I don't think we should do it. We said we were going to start saving money and the addition is not saving money." After all these years together we do think just alike! Well, sometimes we do.

So, we have decided to add a porch onto the house that will solve most of our original issues and do some rearranging in our utility room and that will also address some things that need to be taken care of.

We are trying to decide what we are going to do first when. We are always doing some kind of project around this house. In the mean time...we still have to have a new roof.
Janeta