Simply At Home

Recently in March my husband and I bit the bullet and decided to go through with a kitchen renovation.  We didn't do it OURSELVES, but our role in creating our dream kitchen was a little more pivotal than cutting a few checks.  We had been entertaining the idea for quite sometime.  Ultimately we decided that renovating the kitchen would add value to our home, and if and when we ever decide to sell, we would definitely make money off our investment.  I always try to think logical when it comes to how we spend our money. Our home isn't an OLD home, it was built back in 2003, at the time we bought it, it was only 10 years old, so it had a lot of dark beiges, browns, dark dark wood, orangish colors. One day my husband and I were out on date night, and he asked "do you want to sit at the bar" and I said to him "I don't like sitting at the bar, I don't feel comfortable in bar height chairs, haven't you noticed I never sit at our kitchen bar at home?...

This is officially my first of many posts to Simply at Home Living, I am so so so appreciative that anyone may be possibly reading this once I post it.   So here is a little bit about me, I am a wife, and a mom, recently turned into a SAHM.   Lets me honest, like a lot of moms out there, those were pretty much the only things I could think of that defined me as a person.  Ultimately yes, my family is what gives me purpose in life.  They are without a shadow of a doubt everything to me.  But after 7 years I really started to question who I was, and what happened to the person I use to be sans kids.   I didn't know where she was, or worse, who she was.  I had a very repetitive schedule, as most do (no shame in that) but the problem was, I was lost in my very corporate job, in a very Corporate America.  Everyday I would do the same exact thing, drive the same exact route, have the same exact issues of "will I make it to daycare in time w/this ...