So after the accident, I really wanted to move.  I even said it outloud a number of times and Mike's bosses (who came out to Kearney to help with everything) overheard me.  I think they talked to my Dad and father-in-law to see what kind of shape the house was in.  It's not in great shape.  We don't get much done on it, and we put off so much.  Kids rooms have always been kept up to date, and repainted, but nothing else has been.

Well, after we got home, I was okay with staying.  Our community and friends have been so wonderful and supportive.  There just doesn't seem to be a better place right now.  We are in the home where all our memories as a family have been made, and where all our friends and neighbors are.  So we've decided to stay.  But Mike's work, and bosses, have generously offered to help us make updates, and get the house in shape.  I think some of it is in case we still want to move -- since they know that we had already toyed with transfering to Dallas.  But it's also if we choose to stay, we can change some things up and not have it exactly the same.

So it's been hard for me to take all the help.  My in-laws are paying for a lot, I think Mike's bosses are covering some (but I don't know what or how).  Things are kind of going on "around me".  I'm told what to move and who's going to be at the house at what time.  So it's really weird for me to be taking this type of charity from people.  I'm really not used to it.  But I hope it will make things pretty around here, and make us feel a little more settled -- a hard feat when I feel constantly on edge and uncomfortable.

So right now we have new windows going in.  They are so pretty.  We used to have the kind with individual panes, and the new ones are all one peice of glass, so it feels so much more open.  I like the extra light that's coming in some of the bigger ones that are really affected by the new style.

Mike, dad, fil, and a cousin painted the ceilings last weekend.  They look so much better.  I'm not sure the vaulted ceilings have ever been repainted.  So that was very necessary.  I don't know what is coming up next.  Maybe the downstairs bathroom.  I get to update it, and put in a pedistal sink.  I'm excited.  I had a pretty little bathroom in my first house that I redid, and I miss it.  So maybe I can make this one a pretty little bathroom.

If I ever find my camera charger, I'll take pictures.  I wish I had it so that I could do before & after pics, but I don't know where it went in the shuffle of stuff from one room to another. 

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