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| Mollie |
Posted - Dec 03 2005 : 6:16:19 PM
I've been gone a long time from the "MaryJane" group. I've been teaching school and trying to finish my Ph.D. but slowing down now and I will take a lot of time writing my thesis as my family needs me. We moved from a big expensive suburban home to an old run down house in an historical area of town on 2 acres. I raised my 4 kids, helped my husband with his business, cared for my elderly parents in my home and now I am adrift. I threw myself into graduate school and teaching but now realize with the 4 kids grown that my husband and I need to reconnect. We decided to downsize and pay off all debts, try to get back to what made us happy. Anyone in this fix??? The house was built in 1930 and needs everything especially gutters which we did this weekend. We have been enlarging the laundry room and putting up gutters since the first of Nov. It is a long process. I had a heating/cooling guy come last week and put central heat/air-conditioning into a small carriage house on the back of the property and then have an electrican come next week to connect it. Our oldest unmarried daughter will move into the carriage house while she finishes college. It is a very basic structure that we have been working on. I also had several trees trimmed off the electric lines and a stump near the main house ground out. The main house has one bathroom and it is a high priority to put in another. I did find out the hardwood floors are made of pecan and in fairly good shape. I am going to write off for the gardening catalogs and plan for the spring. This is the first house I have ever had without a basement, where to put everything. Mollie |
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Dec 04 2005 : 3:12:44 PM
Hi Mollie .. i've been through the 'raising of the kids' .. and now they are off and raising kids of their own. (i do so miss those days sometimes .. but am thrilled with our new found 'freedom' at the same time!) You are amazing that after teaching school and raising your family .. you are still 'going to school' ...(what is the subject of your thesis?)
It is a lot of work to bring an olde house back to it's glory or to make it as you wish. But this, too, is one of the happy chapters in our book of life.
So strange that way back on this olde country road .. the electric company had actually installed a very tall .. very large lamp post in our back yard. It competed with the stars shining brightly on our 'olde kentucky home' .. sooooooooo .. we had the electric company come out and disconnect it and CUT the pole to the ground .. and now .. at night .. the stars are the only lights in the sky.
We, too, don't have a basement .. and chile' .. i'm here to tell you .. I LOVE IT!!!!!! I have always found, that for me, a basement simply became a 'catch-all' for stuff that i should have given or thrown away! (we do have an outbuilding that is stuffed .. and i am slowly but surely going through that and gifting and trashing things .. would love to turn it into a huge 'studio/guest house' by next summer.
Everything on your list will all get done .. (ha! by then .. you'll have another long list of 'to-do' things) .. but then .. that is all part of the process of living and loving.
True Friends, Frannie |
| KJD |
Posted - Dec 03 2005 : 6:44:13 PM
Sounds like a grand adventure - you've gotten so much done already! And - how wonderful to have your grown daughter there, too. We're still in the process of raising kids, homeschooling, etc. Each phase of life has its own challenges and rewards. Hope you and your husband reconnect and make this phase an enjoyable one. |
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