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The basement guys showed up bright and early yesterday morning to begin working.  They worked all day, leaving at 5:30 and then were back at it again this morning.  They hope to be done before too long and then I can have my house back! Yesterday just as they were getting started, the crew leader, Mike, mentioned that I would have to turn my heat off, because the dust from all the concrete they would be breaking up would filter through the whole house otherwise.  And so with below freezing temperatures outside, I turned off my heat inside and we all huddled in my bedroom with a space heater on all day.  As I sat there in my bedroom for hours with my three little girls, I thought I could probably complain about this. Or I could be grateful that my bedroom is the size of the houses people lived in a couple hundred years ago, when things like furnaces and solid walls and running water were unheard of dreams.  I chose gratitude. At one point I was in my bathroo...

Right now I'm thinking about family.  My mom just left, she was here for a week as a stop on her trip from Michigan to California, where she will visit my brother.  While she was here I took the opportunity, as I do, to take the pictures of her phone and put them on my computer.  As I scroll through all the pictures of my beautiful, wonderful, crazy awesome family, I feel really happy that they are mine, lucky that I get to be a part of this group. We were in Michigan for a wedding/family reunion/ camping trip.  Michelle, Clay, Amber, Me, Susi  Great Aunt Cathy and Hanna  Great Aunt Phyllis and Hazel  Great Uncle Larry and Daniel  Allison and Jamison  Great Uncle Geoff and Jill  Dancing!  Grandpa and Uncle Dan, with Daniel, Hallie, Emily, and Jill  GG and Alice, Hanna, Hazel, Hallie, Heather, and Jill Golly gee gosh I love those faces.