Our 2024 Year in Review

What a 12 months it’s been! From the enjoyment and blessing of changing into grandparents for the primary AND the second time to our valuable Forrest and Lila, to the heartache and sorrow of shedding our beloved pup Jack, to the happiness of adopting our darling oup Finnegan and all of the methods we’ve made this our residence.

As I sat right down to mirror on 2024, I felt deep gratitude. For our household, for this residence and for the various recollections we’ve made prior to now 12 months (in addition to the three years we’ve lived right here!).

A few of these feelings are nonetheless so tender, principally surrounding the lack of our Jack, however there have been blessings and items to be discovered even then. We miss him a lot, however we’re grateful he didn’t endure for lengthy and for all the great recollections we had with him. He was so cherished by us and his mates on the web. I do know he’ll at all times be remembered with a smile.

Two infants in a single 12 months introduced a lot pleasure to our entire household (together with my mother and father, that’s my cute mother together with her two nice grandbabies!). Their first Christmas was right here in our residence — the recollections made are priceless.

Should you missed our Christmas home tour, you’ll be able to see that HERE. You may also watch our Christmas VIDEO right here!

Now that the 2 new infants are right here and our new pup, we really feel just like the renovation we completed up final 12 months was undoubtedly value it! We had 4 canine and 9 adults and two infants staying with us in the home this Christmas.

Now we really feel like we’ve loads of room for folks and pets! It’s nonetheless not an enormous home, however the renovation actually made the primary ground work higher for us. And naturally, now we’ve the Tiny Cottage for my mother and father, too.

We didn’t begin any main new residence tasks this 12 months since we had simply barely accomplished the renovation on the finish of final 12 months. 2024 was principally about getting settled and located. I’m positive that’ll proceed for just a few years :).

Nonetheless, final 12 months we have been engaged on our yard backyard areas, however we misplaced fairly just a few crops. It was a battle. Ha! We by no means actually bought an opportunity to point out any progress on the weblog. The entire yard needed to be up to date partly because of the renovation. Not less than we bought among the decks and walkways in, even when the crops died.

This picture was the in course of mess earlier than we bought all the things in place, so for positive I’ll share extra backyard updates and tasks within the new 12 months.

And I’m positive we’ll be planting new crops (once more) this spring so we’ll have extra to share. We even have plans for our entrance yard, so we hope to determine sooner or later learn how to preserve our crops alive. 🙂 We’re no gardening specialists however we’ve by no means had such a tough time with crops!

Inside we began to suppose a little bit bit extra about furnishings in addition to methods to rearrange rooms higher for the approaching 12 months. In actual fact, we did a little bit impromptu after Christmas furnishings shuffling between the Tiny Cottage and my lounge! I can’t wait to point out you my plans and the adjustments to furnishings preparations within the new 12 months (in addition to within the Tiny Cottage).

We had given loads away a whole lot of what we had after we moved right here so we may match into the home and never get overwhelmed (we gave most of it to our children). I really like to make use of what I’ve when attainable so I saved what I knew would match right here so we’d have time to consider what would work the very best.

We did do just a few small tasks and a few organizing round the home this 12 months. A number of the small tasks I haven’t formally shared on the weblog but (I’ve been sharing a few of my group in course of in HomeBody Gathering Place) but it surely’s been enjoyable to have the ability to deal with smaller updates (and to have the ability to share them in the neighborhood in actual time). I’ll for positive be doing much more organizing in 2025!

I nonetheless have a number of concepts for tactics I could make the home work even higher for us day-to-day and for household (together with group!) but it surely’ll take awhile to make them occur.

I’m planning on this being our eternally residence (a minimum of for now ha) so we plan to simply benefit from the ongoing course of of constructing it ours. It’s enjoyable to have the ability to make any house really feel cozier, extra welcoming and performance higher!

I’m an enormous believer in adorning a house utilizing what you’ve got and gathering what you like over time so it at all times looks like YOU! If you use a way that enables your own home to evolve with you, it by no means feels stagnant or caught in a time warp!

I’ll share my step-by-step adorning methodology for learn how to enhance with what you’ve got and make enhancements over time in HomeBody Gathering Place within the new 12 months.

Talking of adorning and furnishing a house one step at a time, I discovered a brand new to us mattress on Fb Market this summer season that I’m head over heels for. Any time yow will discover your dream furnishings on FB market it’s an excellent day. I informed the entire story on this publish.

We additionally added a brand new rug, which I really like. You may examine that replace on this publish. I’ve already thought of some further updates I’d like to make on this room so the method will proceed into the brand new 12 months.

We’re a little bit extra settled into the Comfortable now utilizing furnishings we had (and a few that was already in the home!) together with some new lamps, a rug and an finish desk! I’ve massive goals for this room, however we’re fairly content material with it for now. My husband and I watch TV in right here and spent a whole lot of the evenings right here, so it’s good to a minimum of have it really feel put collectively, cozy and useful!

Although our home doesn’t have a whole lot of rooms and they’re all cute sufficient as they’re, I really feel like I nonetheless have loads of concepts inside and outside. I received’t run out of tasks any time quickly. Would that ever occur? I can’t think about ever being completed, however progress is a part of the enjoyable!

Thanks for all of your help in 2024…right here’s to 2025!