9 weeks - Finally Seeing Changes with Remodeling

I did not even realize until 6 pm that it's "Saturday - 9 weeks since Matthew's death" and did not watch the clock today. That was good! We have been real busy the last couple of days with finally making some headway with the remodeling. We are changing bedrooms all around. The twins are in a real small bedroom, and are going to take our bedroom, and keep Bethany (21 mo) with them who still sleeps with us. The two younger boys are going to take the twins bedroom. Our older son is going to make a bedroom in our downstairs family room, and we are going to take the boys' large bedroom. So, Norm is working on the downstairs bathroom which will actually become ours and Stephen's. We moved the twins temporarily into the toddler bedroom. It's quite cramped with five in there, but it makes it possible to work on the twin's bedroom to make it the boy's bedroom (lost yet?!?!?!). There was a private doorway between the two girl's rooms, and a friend is over from church, and has taken that out and drywalled it up. I and Jayson and Heather have been painting the "new" boy's bedroom. They want a sports car theme, and have painted gray over the pink that was in there, and later will put up the sports car border. Jayson & Benjamin are REAL EXCITED about it, which is a joy to see. I think in a few days they should be able to move in there and won't be sleeping on the couches anymore! We are making progress.

We gave had some beautiful Michigan days - almost forty degrees and sunshine. We are very thankful for that - makes things seem brighter in many ways.

Continue praying regarding Norm's job situation. He is really hoping he will get called back to the same place. He's sent resumes out to several other places, but so many tool & die places are laying off and we just heard of one going through bankruptcy. It's helped to move forward on our projects, but there's just so much that can be done too when the normal bills continue! :)

Thanks for your prayers and caring for us. Today was an "up" day!

~~Loni