Development in Process

A friend asked yesterday, “So is the house you bought a fixer-upper?”

“It’s livable,” I said, “but there is a lot to improve.”

“That’s the worst kind of place,” he said. “You never know if you want actually to tear into what needs done next.”

As we’ve brainstormed and brainstormed–we think we have a pleasing floor plan, now–we’ve had to acknowledge time and again that our new house won’t be finished or how we really want it to be for quite some time. We have to move in and live in–and enjoy–its current state, and then chip away at realizing our hopes for it.

It’ll be a process.