it's genetic

I apparently have inherited my father's gene for house projects. There are a million that we think up, and we have the motivation to get through 3/4 of one before another one seems more urgent/interesting/necessary.

My husband likes the status quo in terms of surroundings. He wants to come home and know what to expect. An interesting desire for one with preschoolers in the house! Not to mention having married the likes of me.

In the past couple of months I have torn down all the wallpaper in the basement (yay!!!!!) enacted a major book removal session, bought a new couch, and chosen paint colors and new lighting for the basement. I have not finished cleaning the wallpaper goo off the walls, bought the paint, or fully completed clutter removal/organization. Then today when Matt came home from work I started talking to him about cutting into the wall behind the refrigerator to make more room for a new one. Yeeps. But hey, at least one of us is the catalyst behind home repairs!! :-) And thankfully I have a very understanding and self-sacrificing husband.

Seriously, did you know that some houses require "cabinet depth" refrigerators? These are shorter depth than the standard refrigerator, yet they cost way more. What is up with that? It is a smaller fridge, yet it costs more! So frustrating.

Now my motivation to finish the basement can be that I will get to move on to the next project once it's done. (Will show before and after pictures before I do that though!) As a full time mom it is a big deal to me, to have something tangible that shows progress, that doesn't get messed right back up again!

Today my fixation and frustration about such house related issues has brought me back to these verses from Matthew 6 that our Pastor went through on Sunday (just substitute "refrigerators" where you see "clothes" and you'll follow my thinking):

19"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

25"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

28"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.