Last Friday, Damon and a friend participated in Camp Out to Stamp Out Homelessness. It was put together by our local Interfaith Hospitality Network, a homeless ministry our church is heavily involved in. While it was fun for Damon and Dave, they got to make things out of cardboard (they did a tailgate area) and camp overnight, it also made me think how awesome it was that I got to go home and sleep in my house and in my own bed.

However, I have to admit that various circumstances have me not liking my house right now. Our fridge isn’t working again. I’m disorganized because we have so much stuff and not enough room to store it all. And every evening that we have problems with Tebow sleeping through the night, I curse the fact that we don’t have another bedroom to put him in to cry it out (don’t bug me about this).

So, in order to change my attitude, I am going to write ten things I actually like about my house. And I’ll leave this window open all day if I have to… just to get TEN THINGS.

1. The sense of accomplishment. We might be on year ten of our five year plan to renovate the house, but every time we complete a project the sense of accomplishment gets us so high, we decide to keep on keeping on!

2. Our built-in book case. It looks so nice and actually does help us stay organized to some degree.

3. The bamboo floors. They really warm up the dining room and living room, and still look great, three years later.

4. A working dishwasher. I think having a broken dishwasher would be worse than our broken fridge. (We are using the dorm fridge from D’s office in the interim.)

5. My kitchen island. This is addition to our kitchen gave us such a great amount of counter space. And when I pile junk on it, I still have plenty of counter to do work on!

6. Two bathrooms. Enough said.

7. Sunlight. Sure, it rained today. But! We have plenty of southern facing windows and it really helps warm the house on days when the sun is out and strong.

8. Our attic. I might complain about lack of space, but Damon did a bang up job on making our attic an excellent and safe place to store things.

9. Our dog door. Once we had our fence installed, we put in a dog door. This has changed so much for us. I feel safer knowing the dogs can head outside any time they hear something or need to do something.

10. The roof. We aren’t homeless. We have a roof over our heads. It has been raining sooooo much this Fall, the roof has protected us from all that rain.

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