New year, new plans. And what a pile of plans we have. We’ve decided to turn our main floor laundry room closet into a shower, and open the main bathroom up to the edge of the hallway to accommodate it. Not a massive amount of work, but will significantly change the main floor. Once that is complete, we’ll be repainting the entire main floor. Main floor should look brand new when we’re done, and will also net us two fully usable bathroom as our kids get older and start needing the extra shower.
This year we will also be semi-formalizing plans for our addition that we hope to finally break ground on in the spring of 2018. Lots of drawing, tweaking and hoping for that. Plan is an oversized attached garage bay with a storage loft above the garage door and high ceilings to accomodate a hoist as well as a laundry/mud room behind it. Been a long time coming but finally starting to become a reality.
Subaru has had a busy month. I finished the installation of the reverse camera a few weeks back and it works quite well! I’ve also ordered a new A-pillar gauge pod and additional gauge. Parts should all be on hand within a week or so. Then its just finding time to install it. Lastly I had the timing belt changed yesterday. Costly service, but necessary. I actually hope to keep this car for a while, so I figured get it done before it’s too late and I end up having to buy a motor.
Not much else happening. Starting to look at holidays and plans for the summer. I think we’ll be taking it somewhat slower/quieter this summer as we are heading on a Disney Cruise in October which we are all busy counting down to. In the meantime, I’m sure we’ll do some small fun family trips again this summer. More camping, the falls, go-karting, swimming, etc. Also, if money allows Shannon and I are toying with the idea of hitting a couple baseball games in Minnesota and Milwaukee if money allow. Be a whirl-wind 2-3 day road trip, but fun. Just depends on if finances will allow it.
Warm winter air has been a welcome change. Hovering around the 2-5degree mark really makes me hopeful for a spring like we had in 2011. I was on my motorcycle on February 14th, and didn’t have to put it away again until December. Fingers crossed for mild, snow/salt free remainder of the winter and spring.
As for the Star Wars / Awakening title….. Be patient. More news to come from our ever busy home….