Power Tools & Projects

August 19, 2005
We're still working on the home projects! We're in the middle of building a back stair railing and putting in new flooring. We've had a lot of frustrating times in which we had to undo & redo different sections (yes, these 2 firstborns have some perfectionism kicking in!). There have also been several trips to various home improvement stores for materials. We're learning as we go! Much of the time is slow-going, with measuring, re-measuring, and precise cutting. It's also taking awhile because we're both still working at our jobs full-time, so we can't work on the projects much at night, since we don't want to wake up the neighborhood with our power tools! It will be so nice to have these things done!

Michele is still scrapbooking pages for our adoption profile photo album (which birthparents will look at), which is close to being done. Thank you to everyone who sent us photos! They have been a big help! We've made several stops at Costco to drop off/pick up film this past month, and have been more consistent in remembering to carry our camera. We were just commenting last night that we probably have all the photos we need for this adoption. Now we should probably keep stockpiling photos for the probable future Adoption #2+! We also need to keep up our film supply, since we will be sending birthmoms the baby photos (along with all you wonderful soon-to-be grandparents!).