For almost a year now, we’ve been in the process of getting ready to remodel our kitchen. We talked with contractors. We picked an architect. We got drawings. We got bids. We picked a contractor. This week we’ll be signing a contract with him; and we expect to start work in two weeks.

Let me repeat that. Two weeks!

During those two weeks we need to pack up our kitchen, getting rid of as much stuff as we can, and prepare to set up a temporary kitchen elsewhere on the property.

I just told my sons that we’d have a much better time if we all thought of it as an adventure rather than as a series of calamities…and that they should keep reminding me of that.