As some of you know I work all year round. I gave up the teacher-63-consectutive-days-of-holidays-in-summer-plus-every-other-holiday-including-Spring-break-type-vacation to persue my other interests so I cannot complain that I am not able to give up my holidays to work on renovating our kitchen. (Oh that's right because I don't get holidays anymore.) Fortunately for me, Alan loves teaching and his mom is retired so they have been working pretty much constantly for two weeks on refinishing the kitchen cabinets, installing new countertops etc etc. Alan's dream of finally updating our 80's (I think that makes it retro?!?!?) kitchen is coming to fruition. Step one: strip cabinets Step two: finsih cabinets. Sounds simple?? I thought so. ( I'm already cringing at the onslaught of nasty things he is going to say when he reads this heh heh heh) They sure have put in a lot of hours, including help from the family patriarch who helped install the counter and new sink.There is still a lot of work to be done before we can say it is finished though: flooring, building the new workstation,installing new lighting, painting... Alan's favourite part so far is definitely the glass inserts he put in some of the cabinets. I've included a little sneak preview of the work that's been done so far.
We have also discovered the best way for us to do home renovations ourselves is if I am not in the house. We both seem to have more patients for other people. At least when it comes to this type of work. Don't worry, I've been holding my own finishing the exterior. We've decided our roles are starter(Al), closer(me). Hey, whatever works and as long as it all gets
done!! 
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