Here’s the deal. We live in a sweet little house built around 1940 in a perfectly beautiful neighborhood. We have a tiny (I mean tiny) kitchen. All of my pots & pans and things like crock pots etc. are out in the garage.

Our kitchen is in desperate need of updating and sprucing up.
We’ve talked to several people about how to #1 add cabinets #2 add dishwasher #3 just over all update.

Initially we even discussed taking walls down and making the kitchen bigger. But this did not work for a few reasons. #1 money #2 destroying the character of this 40′s bungalow.

Ultimately we came to a very good contractor who drew up some plans which would have us tearing out the kitchen completely and adding new everything. There are more cabinets, but with the dishwasher there really aren’t many more. It is just absolutely beautiful and would be very expensive. VERY

We’d gone as far as choosing cabinets and counter tops. Then our contractor got with us and expressed some concerns he is having as he goes back over the plans to finalize them. He gave us 2 options … to do away with the doorway that leads to the garage & basement (no way) or to go back to another plan which would cost nearly as much but take away a lot of the counter space & cabinets we were hoping to add.

So now we are re-thinking and praying. We wonder if the Lord is giving us a big yellow caution light to not spend this money on making the kitchen so completely new when we are only going to gain really a dishwasher and aesthetic value.

Maybe we should just repaint existing cabinets. Add new updated counter top and remove some cabinets to put in dishwasher. And then just put some closed garage type cabinets out the back door to store things in a cleaner more efficient way. Spending likely 1/4 of the money.

So that is our dilemma in a nutshell.

Oh one more thing: Papaw is continuing to tempt me with the notion of my first MacBook Pro if we don’t spend all that money!! (He knows how to get to this Granny)

Comments are appreciated
Thanks for taking time for me today.

(remembering all of the things of this world are passing away)