We remodeled our first home so thoroughly that it was barely recognizable...then we sold it and moved into our current home. It took us four or five years to commence doing the same and we've been working on this one for the past ten years. I am pushing myself to make a lot of progress this year so we can be close to "done". I figure this is the last big renovation project that I will tackle myself. If we stay, or if we sell & move, I'll be in a finished home either way.

Exciting times, but yeah...I get it too.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.