Got around to shifting sleeping arrangements yesterday: Chris to our room and Ella in Chris's room.

It's not the ideal. But the ideal requires twice as much work.

The addition gives us another bedroom.

We are hearing back from the town on the building plans, little by little.

I think of all the great, clear, warm weather we've enjoyed through fall and into winter.

I see frames going up on other homes around town.

And I wonder why that can't be us.