Schedules and Work

As always, life has been busy!

I like busy. Time flies and you get a lot done (hopefully).

We started a new schedule two weeks ago (the first time we've had a schedule in a looooong time). My Dad is a complete visionary, he likes to be free to do what comes up, but unfortunately, with 16 individuals (and yes, we are individuals :-) )living in one household, life was becoming an efficiency nightmare. So we developed a schedule that allowed lots of flexibility!

You may wonder if that's even a schedule? For us, it's huge, rigid, strict, harsh...HAHAHA

OK, here's how it works:
Due to our heavy ministry on Sundays, ministry that often lasts until late into the night, we don't work on Monday. Monday is set aside as our planning day, meaning we all take time to get together as a family and plan out the week. The things that we plan range from who will drive what cars on what days to, how we'll restore America to it's godly heritage! :-) Our family loves to get together and plan so this usually takes several hours.
After planning, we can use whatever time is left to take care of things around the house, run errands, etc. Then it's to bed at 9:00 (8:30 for Jack and younger). Tuesday thru Friday, we (are supposed to) get up at 5:00, have breakfast, read the bible together... Leave the house for work by 6:30. Work time for all, is between 7 and 3:30, for those at home, that means chores first and whatever time is left is spent on school.

Now that you're bored to death...I'll talk about work. :-)

We just completed another kitchen (kitchen remodels are our latest venture), and because I actually took some pictures this time, I'll share them with you...if you don't care, fine. But if you want to see the latest in kitchen remodels, a revolution that's gonna take the world by storm...read on. :-)

Here's how the job went:
Before we started Dad (our sales rep) and the cabinet manufacturer spent several hours with the customer, designing and working out details.

Some before pics:

Before -looking from the inside out- Notice how the fridge sticks out, isolating the kitchen from the breakfast nook.


Before- from the other end


Day 1 - It didn't take our awesome crew long to get down to business. We hauled away over 1900lbs. of trash that day. (Part of the crew -left to right-:Dad, Merrie and Chris)


Gotta love the creativity of the previous electrician


When we tore open the pantry, as per plans, we discovered that the wall we were to remove was structural. Chris did a great job supporting the ceiling and adding a beam in order to make room for the new cabinets


By the end of day 2 (a 12 hour day) we had all of our electrical and plumbing roughed in and the walls ready for the drywallers (for you easterners, that's sheetrockers ;-0)


The tapers were done by the end of day 3 but unfortunately we had to do some touch-up to make it look good. We painted on day 5...


On day six, our cabinet installation crew was there by 7:00AM (That's my Uncles, Mike and Rick on the right)

Cabinet installation took two days. Granite started late in the day, on day 7. Granite and flooring were done by (midnight!!!) on day 8

On day 9, the cabinet manufacturer had to come back out and install all the doors and details (because they weren't done before the cabinets left the shop)


And on the tenth day, we installed all the appliences and the finishing touches.


You can still see some details the cabinet guys haven't done. The walls and ceiling are plain white because the customer wanted to save money by adding color themselves later.


Under cabinet lighting


Some beautiful trim detail by Chris


Under the sink, that's about 3 hours of work right there! Includes a three compartment sink and two filter systems.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to show all of the custom details built into this job, but when it's said and done, the customer will have nearly twice as much storage space in the same sized kitchen! Including, 54 full extension drawers, 7 pull out bread boards, a pantry with 4' deep, full extension drawers that are able to support 200lbs. each, a removable section where a dishwasher can be installed at a later date, two pull out spice racks, 6 'secret' drawers...all this and more, for a very competitive price. Have I sold you yet? What else do you want to know? :-)

On Monday, we're supposed to start another kitchen (much smaller) that should take 5 days! Hopefully, I will remember to take pictures as we go.

"Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1Cor 10:13

"For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe." 1Ti 4:10

Hey everybody,

We're on TV! You can see us on Sunday, if you have the Discovery HEALTH channel. The show is called 'On the Road with 16 Children', another episode about the awesome Duggar family. I haven't seen it yet so I can't guarantee that it's good... it is rated 'G'...

And last but not least:

Eze 16:48-50 "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good."

Notice that while Sodom is known for it's immorality, the only phrase here that would relate to that is 'committed abomination' which could very well be any number of things(see below). God states here, that he destroyed it for other reasons, reasons that we would consider far 'less important'.

When our family went over this last week, it really hit home. According to God’s standard, we as a nation, are unrepentantly guilty of the very same things for which Sodom was destroyed.

Pride:
1Pe 5:5 "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble."

Fulness of bread and abundance of idleness:
Eph 5:16 "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil."

Niether did she strengthen the hand of the poor:
Jas 2:15 "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?"

Haughty:
Pr 18:12 "Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility."

Comitted abomination:
Pr 3:32 "For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous."
Pr 6:16 "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him..."
Pr 11:1 "A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight."
Pr 11:20 "They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight."
Pr 12:22 "Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight."
And many more...

Wish I could say more but I've run out of time...Have a great weekend!

Test

This is a test to see if the sidebar will stay where it should.

When I posted the last post it pushed the sidebar all the way to the bottom of the page.

I couldn't figure out why.

Until I found it in the help section of the Blogger website.

They said that it could happen if the margins of the blog post are forced to expand beyond the fixed deminsion.

They said it could be due to oversized pictures

I think that must be the case.

Hopefully this post will be long enough to push the old post out of the way and bring the sidebar back to the top...

So let's see what happens...