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Yesterday was an amazingly productive day. Colin and I went to Costco and Toys 'R' Us (he earned a reward, and his choice was a little Star Wars Lego set). Monte and our friend Chris tiled our backsplash in the kitchen. I took all of the kids swimming at the park near our home. We had a fun dinner on the patio and Monte and I spent the evening (after the little kids were in bed) playing Texas Hold 'em while sitting at our new kitchen table and admiring the new backsplash. It was an awesome day.
As Monte and I sat playing poker, he asked me if I would be blogging about the backsplash - putting up pictures of our kitchen remodel, now almost fully complete. My answer: I really don't know. You see, while I do fully understand that this is my blog and that I am fully able to talk about whatever I so choose, I am still hesitant to mention it. The reason? Well, a couple of years ago when Monte and I decided to put an addition on our home, I chose to blog about it. I wrote many posts like this one here that detailed where we were in the renovation process. I loved writing about it and sharing this exciting time in our lives with you! Until the day that someone decided to comment and tell me, in just a few cutting and painful words, that we were spending our money unwisely and that it wasn't okay, in this economy, to be putting an addition on our home.
It hurt. In fact, it hurt a lot.
I even went on to explain myself, to say that Monte and I weren't spending money foolishly; that we had planned and prepared for it and already had the money set aside. I explained that we still had money to fund our lives, money for the kids' savings accounts, money for bills, etc. etc. I don't know why I felt the need to explain myself, but I did. The catch: that same person came back with another rude comment. I don't remember what it was about, and I'm not about to go back through my comments to rehash that one, because even reading it to this day still brings a little ping of pain inside me. Leave it at enough to say that it hurt.
So, with that being my past experience, you can understand my hesitancy and why I have chosen to be a little more hush-hush regarding this current renovation. Monte and I have not been foolish with our money - we knew exactly how much we had to spend on this and made it happen within those means. However, the possibility of someone telling me how to spend my money and how to live my life keeps me from sharing.
Maybe I will find the boldness in me to share those pictures soon. Not yet, but maybe sometime soon! In the meantime, I will leave you with this incredibly cute picture of Ellis showing off his souvenir from Wall Drug in Wall, SD.
As Monte and I sat playing poker, he asked me if I would be blogging about the backsplash - putting up pictures of our kitchen remodel, now almost fully complete. My answer: I really don't know. You see, while I do fully understand that this is my blog and that I am fully able to talk about whatever I so choose, I am still hesitant to mention it. The reason? Well, a couple of years ago when Monte and I decided to put an addition on our home, I chose to blog about it. I wrote many posts like this one here that detailed where we were in the renovation process. I loved writing about it and sharing this exciting time in our lives with you! Until the day that someone decided to comment and tell me, in just a few cutting and painful words, that we were spending our money unwisely and that it wasn't okay, in this economy, to be putting an addition on our home.
It hurt. In fact, it hurt a lot.
I even went on to explain myself, to say that Monte and I weren't spending money foolishly; that we had planned and prepared for it and already had the money set aside. I explained that we still had money to fund our lives, money for the kids' savings accounts, money for bills, etc. etc. I don't know why I felt the need to explain myself, but I did. The catch: that same person came back with another rude comment. I don't remember what it was about, and I'm not about to go back through my comments to rehash that one, because even reading it to this day still brings a little ping of pain inside me. Leave it at enough to say that it hurt.
So, with that being my past experience, you can understand my hesitancy and why I have chosen to be a little more hush-hush regarding this current renovation. Monte and I have not been foolish with our money - we knew exactly how much we had to spend on this and made it happen within those means. However, the possibility of someone telling me how to spend my money and how to live my life keeps me from sharing.
Maybe I will find the boldness in me to share those pictures soon. Not yet, but maybe sometime soon! In the meantime, I will leave you with this incredibly cute picture of Ellis showing off his souvenir from Wall Drug in Wall, SD.
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