New Wall

When I came home from the TSO concert, I walked into my house and was floored by a new wall, yep a new wall. We have lived here for 6 and a half years with a very annoying railing. We live in a 70's split level and the railing was one "wall" of our livingroom and the hand rail for the stairs going up to the living room. It woobled a lot and was useless for our baby gate when we first moved in (our youngest was only 8 months old and hadn't been around stairs before, we had to teach him quickly). Well now that we are faced with another baby on the way and we had already been talking about it anyway, I wanted to get going on getting the wall up so we have two sturdy walls to put a gate between.

A good friend of ours gave it to us for Christmas. He bought the stuff, built it in another friend's garage and had my hubby help him install it while I was gone. I know it is corny, but I just about cried. If I hadn't been so flabergasted, I think I would have bawled. I am thankful for this little bit of thoughtfulness. I can't wait to get it mudded up and textured so we can paint, install new flooring, re-do the kitchen, re-do the bath.....

Ok, so I can dream a little can't I? LOL The painting and flooring is in our plans hopefully before spring, but the rest I will have to continue to dream about for a few years. I can live with that...for now.