This weekend marked the first full weekend Ryan and I spent working on the new house. Ryan’s Mom came into town and was nice enough to give up her holiday weekend slaving away with us (in exchange for a front row seat to the Boston fireworks). We spent Friday making plans and shopping, Saturday shopping and laboring in the garden, Sunday cleaning up our mess and Monday we rested a little and enjoyed the 4th by watching the fireworks. We’ve got a long way to go but making such visible progress this weekend was just the motivation we needed.