Our 2024 Yr in Evaluation

What a yr it’s been! From the enjoyment and blessing of turning 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 house.

As I sat all the way down to mirror on 2024, I felt deep gratitude. For our household, for this house and for the various recollections we’ve made up to now yr (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 presents to be discovered even then. We miss him a lot, however we’re grateful he didn’t endure for lengthy and for the entire fantastic recollections we had with him. He was so liked by us and his associates on the web. I do know he’ll all the time be remembered with a smile.

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

In case you missed our Christmas home tour, you’ll be able to see that HERE. You may as well 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 yr 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 now have loads of room for individuals 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 now have the Tiny Cottage for my dad and mom, too.

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

Nonetheless, final yr we had been engaged on our yard backyard areas, however we misplaced fairly a number of crops. It was a wrestle. Ha! We by no means actually received an opportunity to indicate any progress on the weblog. The entire yard needed to be up to date partly as a result of renovation. At the least we received a few of the decks and walkways in, even when the crops died.

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

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 in some unspecified time in the future how you can hold 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 assume just a little bit extra about furnishings in addition to methods to rearrange rooms higher for the approaching yr. Actually, we did just a little impromptu after Christmas furnishings shuffling between the Tiny Cottage and my lounge! I can’t wait to indicate you my plans and the modifications to furnishings preparations within the new yr (in addition to within the Tiny Cottage).

We had given quite a bit away a variety 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 youngsters). I like to make use of what I’ve when attainable so I stored what I knew would match right here so we’d have time to consider what would work one of the best.

We did do a number of small tasks and a few organizing round the home this yr. Among 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) however it’s been enjoyable to have the ability to give attention to smaller updates (and to have the ability to share them locally in actual time). I’ll for positive be doing much more organizing in 2025!

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

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

I’m a giant believer in adorning a house utilizing what you’ve gotten and gathering what you like over time so it all the time appears like YOU! Whenever you use a technique that permits your property to evolve with you, it by no means feels stagnant or caught in a time warp!

I’ll share my step-by-step adorning technique for how you can adorn with what you’ve gotten and make enhancements over time in HomeBody Gathering Place within the new yr.

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 time that I’m head over heels for. Any time you will discover your dream furnishings on FB market it’s day. I advised the entire story on this submit.

We additionally added a brand new rug, which I like. You possibly can examine that replace on this submit. I’ve already thought of some further updates I might like to make on this room so the method will proceed into the brand new yr.

We’re just a little 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 huge desires 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 variety of the evenings right here, so it’s good to at the least have it really feel put collectively, cozy and useful!

Although our home doesn’t have a variety of rooms and they’re all cute sufficient as they’re, I really feel like I nonetheless have loads of concepts in and out. I gained’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!