Our home is wonderful...in some ways.  It's a place to live and we are slowly making it our own, although we don't plan to stay here forever.  My parents actually own the house, but we pay the mortgage.  Which is one of the biggest reasons we don't plan to stay.  The biggest problem we have is that the people who lived here before us as well as those who built to the house took some SERIOUS shortcuts!  It seems like every time we try to improve something, some huge mess is created by the shoddy job done the first time.

Take for instance, our new dishwasher.  The old one was straight from the 1970s, as was the oven.  It's hideous, and didn't really wash the dishes.  I pretty much had to wash the dishes, and THEN put them in the dishwasher.  I have always felt like the dishwasher still gets them cleaner because the water gets hotter.  Anyway, here is a picture of the kitchen from when we first bought the house.

We now have a beautiful new oven and flat top stove, which I LOVE!  Well, we also have a new dishwasher.  Which is currently sitting in the middle of my kitchen.  Because when Matt and his friend Johnny were going to put it in, they discovered the original one was put in incorrectly and so now there is also water.  All over my kitchen.  And wet towels.  AHHHH!

They are trying to fix it tonight (I bribed them with hamburgers).  I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow, but hopefully I'll have a new dishwasher, dry floors, and an EMPTY sink!