The Basement: Week 1- Home Theater to Sandbox

Once upon a time, these two crazy kids fell in love and got married.

Remember that?  It was fantastic.

While we were in Michigan celebrating with them, a funny thing happened.  Back home, we got 13 inches of rain in 24 hours.  This conveniently happened after Jynx had (once again) decided to remove the downspout extentions from the house.  The result:

Not fantastic.

Major water in the basement.  Mass chaos and pandemonium.

Real Life with the Taylors: The Fence and Fence Fairies

We are about to begin a major home project (The Basement) which I am hoping to update you about weekly.  Sometimes we see what people post on social media and extrapolate that to the rest of their lives.  For example, when they share about a project that they are doing, we think "Wow... they're so productive!  They have such gumption, such energy, such creativity!  I don't understand how people can get stuff done, because I have had projects sitting around for years waiting to be done/finished..."

Not that I think my weekly posting will induce such thoughts of comparison and inadequacy, but as a preventative measure, I attempt to give you...

PERSPECTIVE

This, my friends, is another episode of Real Life with the Taylors.  In today's episode, we will revisit and incident that happened long ago--- a year and a half ago, to be exact.

Remember that time we went to Honduras right after Christmas?  And we had about 24 hours between when we got home from Michigan and when we left the country? And how in that time we had discovered someone had driven through our fence?  And how we patched it up to get us through until we could replace it?  Yeah...about that.

Johnson Lake 2014

I don't know about you, but I had a fantastic weekend.

Tim and I took a long weekend to head to Nebraska and meet up with my fam at Johnson Lake.  Dad's cousin, Rick, has a lake house big enough for our crew, and kindly lent it to us for the weekend.

a look-back

I'm about to attempt something I've been avoiding for awhile-- try to put into words how I feel about our time in England. To try answer that excellent, but difficult question, "So how was it?"  It's hard to try to confine such a big experience to words on a screen, and even if I chose the right words, I know that I will mostly not be understood.  Being misunderstood is hard for me, so this takes some courage.  I know that God gave me this experience so that I can share it, though, so it is worth the risk of being misunderstood in order to try to share this experience with you all.  I love you all, and thanks for reading.

5 months ago... 

First I was like...