Porch Remodel: Weeks 5/6

So I'm a little behind in this posting thing.  December is my favorite month in kindergarten, so I have an excuse!  It's much more fun to make gingerbread cookies and decorate gingerbread houses and search for our lost gingerbread man (after making lost posters for him. (Yes, I do make my kids work for it!)) than to sit down for an hour and write a blog.

My other very good reason? Draco.  Yes, the thunder snow storm of the year.  Although it gave me a snow day to sit at home and potentially write this update, it also meant that I had to shovel which proved very difficult.  I'm, well, exhausted.

The only real progress I made on the driveway before I got too hot and tired.

16 inches and still snowing as of 3:30pm on Thursday.

 So Friday ended up being a snow day too.  The Friday before winter break.  And, of course, I left my camera at school with all the pictures of the room that I had taken over the past two weeks.  (Not to mention my kids' Christmas gifts and the ornaments they made for their families.  Kicking myself for not sending them home on Wednesday!)  So there aren't any progress pictures, just today, Dec. 21st, but that's ok ;)

We decided to take out the sliding glass door and just leave it open, no french doors like we were originally thinking. 

Lucy sunning herself in her new room

 We also decided to paint the ceiling white so it didn't look so much like a cave.  We still have another coat to go, but it looks better already.

new fan

looking into the kitchen

Here's our new sliding glass door going to the deck and check out all of that snow from Storm Draco!  There's at least 18 inches out there. CrAzY!

 And our beautiful new floors!  I love them. 

Hand scraped oak.

Oh and remember that picture towards the beginning of this post of the awesome progress I made on the driveway?  Well, by the time that Andrew got home 2 hours later, it looked like I hadn't shoveled at all.  He wouldn't have known if I hadn't taken a picture.  We then spent another hour and a half to two hours shoveling the 2 feet deep snow off the driveway.

Feliz navidad!