Starting with the Kitchen

Now that we've been in our home for 4 months we're finally unpacked and settled enough to start tackling some of our bigger home improvement projects. We started in the kitchen because the appliances were old eyesores and the dishwasher was functioning on its last legs. I often had to run it 3 to 4 times before it actually cleaned the dishes and don't get me started on the noise level-- every time I turned it on it sounded like a thunderstorm in my kitchen! After lots of research and waiting for the right sale we thought we had everything all figured out. Then when we were standing in the appliance store we realized that replacing a free standing range with a slide range was going to cause fit issues and look ridiculous until we could replace the countertops; so we ended up only ordering the dishwasher. Our plan is to save up more money so that we can afford to replace the countertops and range/microwave all at the same time (hopefully by the end of the year). In the meantime I'm throughly enjoying my sleek new dishwasher. It is soooooo quiet and it has a hidden control panel so Miss Ruby can't walk by and press all the buttons. It's the simple things in life that make a Mama happy, right?!