I have the new hardwood flooring that I need to put down in the kitchen & dining room, but can't do it until after we replace the cabinets & countertops. So I'd buy those & install them myself. As much as I'd love granite tops, they wouldn't fit the feeling of our house at all so I'd have to consider something more country casual.

We still need some new windows installed before I finish replacing the siding with new cedar, but right now it's the kitchen that's making us nuts.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.