Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop, and Building Reflections

Welcome to the Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop!

The Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop

I can’t believe it’s already Sunday again, and time for another blog hop!  

I’ve been trying to find a minute or two to sit down and do an update, but it’s been hard to find those minutes.  

I will say that we are suddenly and finally seeing a dam break with our house progress.  A dam of next steps to conquer!  

I’ve got a mental checklist six miles long, and the at makes me very inefficient.  

Today: we are hoping to make good progress on wrapping up the plumbing.  We’ve been saying that for so long that’s it’s like an old, non-funny joke now, but we have to keep saying it anyways.  

I plan to choose stain color for our ceiling beams and get going on that.  Once the beams and ceilings are stained, we can hang lights/fans.  We have a ceiling to build in a bathroom, a wall to put up, another vanity to build, and plenty more, but that’s our focus for today.  Plus our regular chores like the garden and life.  

My life is routinely over ambitious in the planning department, then under ambitious in the getting it done area, since so much is unpredictable when it comes to doing stuff we’ve never done.  I can think/plan/and announce that we will do XYZ today, and find out that all we got done was a lot of head scratching and a trip to Lowes for parts.  And even those trips aren’t quick!  We have to decide on so many things!  

For someone who has a difficult time with decisions, big and small, these simultaneous decisions about everything from what kind of screws, stain color, varnish, knobs, appliances, angles, tools we need, wood varieties, things you’ll see everyday, stuff you’ll never see, pipes, crack filler, and lights, just to name a few, these trips really drain my energy. Then life is happening at the same time.  With decisions there too and plenty of challenges, so I have found that my brain these days just stays really, really tired. If you wonder why, on Instagram, I post mostly flowers and cats, maybe you can understand a bit about why. Those things bring pleasure without huge amounts of mental expenditures, and they make me unwind mostly. I really do need my garden time to get through these days.

Enough about that!

One day, and it’s coming sooner than it used to be, I’m going to take you into our cabin and show you what we are up to.  We will love it once we get to move in. I am so ready to have a house, to have a place to invite people, and to experience the haven of home at our Ridge Haven Homestead.    We do have the haven, in our land and property, but we all know that home is a true haven, and we are longing to have that again!  💗 

You got a whole lot more than usual, so enjoy that.  😃 

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Just for fun, I’m going to put a picture of the vanity Adam has been working on.  I don’t think I’ve shared that here before.  Andrew will be building a small one for their small bathroom.  I’m very proud at what they can accomplish when they decide to!  Also, this is the feel of our home—homemade, rustic, and solid.  

Note: every scrap of wood used in this vanity is from what Greg cut and had milled.  The top slab is oak that we’ve been drying for a good five years at least—I love it!  The cedar doors and sides are from tree jobs, as are the posts.  We could definitely make things go faster if we just went out and bought something.  But when I looked, I kept telling myself that my boys could make it just as well or better, and it would be how I really liked it!  I don’t like fancy, and I don’t want cheap.  

This vanity is not cheap in hours—he really has put in a lot of time on it. The slab was very weathered and gray and we both did a lot of sanding on it. But he’s learning and has a lot to be proud of!    

Adam is 15.

Enough bragging!  😉 

Hope things are going well in your world. 

Happy week and happy hop!

Laurie

This is a place to share some love and spread some sunshine!

The focus of this blog hop will be: anything related to making our homes more sunny and happy! If that’s through homemade cooking, a health tip that will help another, homesteading tips, homeschool successes or real-life struggles, or just whatever God is impressing you with in your home journey, please share it!

Guidelines for the Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop 🌤

1. Click on the “Add your Link” Button below and add a great image of your project or recipe. Make sure you link to the page of your family friendly post – not the main page of your blog.
2. Link up to three posts each week.
3. Try to visit at least a few other blogs at the party. Be sure to leave a comment to let them know you stopped by.
4. Link your post back to the Sunday Sunshine Blog Hop. If the hop isn’t linked to your post then you cannot be featured. All featured posts will be shared on my Pinterest/Social Media.
5. Please link up posts that you haven’t linked to the hop before. You are welcome to link old posts from your blog.
6. By joining the party, you are giving me permission to use one photo from your post with a link back to your site if it is selected as one of next week’s Features.
7. This is a family-friendly link up! You are welcome to share home and family-oriented blog posts, focusing on homeschooling, homesteading and homemaking. Christian-friendly content, highlighting healthy life choices to encourage others!

Features for this week!

We’ve got some diverse features this week, and I hope you have time to go check them out  I love to choose one thoughtful, one food, and one practical/gardening post for the features, but it doesn’t always work out that way.  This week it did.  😃 

Thank you to everyone who came to participate. ♥️ Have a great week, and feel free to share the hop with others!