Progress Report

Remember back in school how you'd get progress reports?  Do they still do that?  Little check-ins to see how you are measuring up.  It sounds so intimidating, doesn't it?  Well, I think they can be positive too.  Like if you only report the good stuff.  If you only report the good stuff, it might not be honest, but at least it won't make you cry.  And you can get gold stars.  We all secretly live for the gold star, don't we?  Even if they are imaginary.  So I'm going to do progress reports in 2012.  The first one is the last one of 2011.  Those photos up there show the progress made on the bookcase project of Christmas 2011.  We are so incredibly lucky that Dave's dad is a skilled carpenter who is also retired and who was willing to come out to Boston and help build bookcases.  Nearly his entire trip to Boston was spent in the "dungeon," aka the most awesome basement in North America (apparently its awesomeness depends on what you are doing down there - using it as a private flea market = awesome, doing construction with an uneven floor and poor lighting = not so awesome), and our living room.  Not a sight was seen.  And Dave's mom had to run errands with me that included sitting in the waiting room of the dentist office. Doesn't that sound like a lousy vacation?!  We are so very lucky.  There is no way Dave could have managed this project on his own and we are just overwhelmed with gratitude.  Family rocks.   We'll be spending the next couple of weekends trying to get the project done (like building the actual shelves, making the doors, and painting), but the amount of progress that was made in 5 days is amazing.  I'm going to shut up this blah blah blog until the New Year, but I hope you ring it in with lots of good cheer!!