Before and After

Our house is slowing beginning to feel like OUR house. Here’s a few before and afters from the main living area/kitchen.

And this is actually one of my favorite things we’ve added. A little chalkboard when you walk in the house. Thanks Anthropologie for the idea!

Repost: Are you upbeat or beat up?

An awesome blog you should read is the blog of Mr. Joshua Blankenship. If you don’t read it here’s a good example to why you should.

Are you upbeat or beat up?

It’s a simple question, but it will inform every interaction you have this week. Every project. Every meeting. It will show in each mark you make and detail you ignore. And both states of being are highly infectious for everyone around you.

If you’re upbeat, congratulations. Translate it into action. If you’re beat up, take a break. If you come back and you’re still bruised, go find somewhere else to put in your time.

Either way, do something today. Act. Move. Go.

Wallpaper

Today when I heard this, I knew it needed to be in front of me constantly so I made probably the simplest wallpaper ever. Not sure even why I’m sharing it but I love the simplicity.

and per request

I bought a house!

So today at 11:45, this officially became ours. Well, the banks but they’re letting us stay there!

I am so stoked at the place God has blessed us with. We started painting yesterday and we’ll be moving in Friday morning.

How do you handle speed bumps?

God is constantly teaching me out of my times when I blow it. Take yesterday for example. We are planning on closing our house next Wednesday so we’ve been packing and getting all ready. Yesterday our realtor calls and says there’s been a mistake. Basically somebody messed up filling in the lines and now we were expected to pay the closing costs.

So in my mind the car just came to a screeching stop. I don’t know about you but I don’t keep thousands of extra dollars laying around. What did I do?

Well my first reaction (which I’m not proud of) was to get pissed! Who could’ve overlooked that! That was my first reaction when a blessing hit it’s most recent speed bump. How do you handle speed bumps along the way? Especially when God is pouring out his blessings on you and all of a sudden one little snag comes up?

Eventually I got over being mad, and prayed about it, confessed that he’s God and not me, and moved along knowing he’s in control. I should’ve done that first but God showed me some cool stuff along the way. So how do you react when you’re driving along, hit a speed bump going 55, and slam your head in the ceiling?