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Almost Anniversary

I will never not be in awe of this amazing home. So honored to be spending her 115th Christmas together. 🎄🏡🩵

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In just two weeks we will celebrate one full year of owning this beauty. What a remarkable year this has been. Possibly one of the most transformative years of my life… and if you know me, you know I’ve had a LOT of changes over the years. But this one… this one takes the cake. 🍰

Pauline Manor has gotten a crazy number of upgrades – from a brand new roof, a beautiful fence to keep our babies safe plus another around the back for privacy, all new sheetrock, paint, crown molding, trim, one (of four) bathroom remodel complete with adding a whole new wall, turning a shed into a workshop, a pig pen into a paved parking garage, a fishery into a greenhouse, board and batten around the second story, a 750 square foot vegetable garden, and about a million other little things. We still have a LONG way to go but I am so so so proud of how far we’ve come.🛠️

But the biggest changes have been in Mike and I. We’ve always been a great partnership, but this project has given us the opportunity to work together on something completely out of our league and I am so proud of how we have handled everything – from the things we’ve completed ourselves to agreeing on what to hire help for and even figuring out how to pay for it all. 🥴 (That’s been the least fun part lol) We are celebrating our 15th Christmas together… closer and happier than we’ve ever been, and I credit this house for that.

I, personally, have embraced a much slower lifestyle than I ever thought I would and I have discovered a profound happiness in things like successfully growing my own food and making sourdough almost every day. I go days without even getting in my car because everything I could possibly want is right here at home. 🏡

It has been far from perfect… things have broken, most everything has cost more than we expected, and we’ve said “why on earth would they DO THAT?!” more times than I can count… but as I sit here snuggled in with our three fur babies (#4 was born 11/22!) I wouldn’t want my life to be any other way. 🩵

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