Kitchen pictures!

Drumroll please, it's the moment you've all been waiting for... pictures of the kitchen in my "new" house!

Oh. Ahem.

Ok, so just to be clear - there is a part of me that does not hate this kitchen. There is a part of me that thinks it's kind of cute...that the color on the cabinets is actually very pleasing, and that the wallpaper border complements the whole thing.

It's a bistro! In Paris!

There is nothing wrong, per se, with this kitchen. It is functional. Nothing is falling apart. And if my life had taken a different path, I could probably live and work happily in this kitchen for a long time.

BUT.

I have 3 kids. I am a compulsive cake maker who is about to have a legal home cake decorating business. And I never met a kitchen gadget I didn't buy. So, the green Paris bistro kitchen must bid us adieu in order to make way for the new, enlarged, improved kitchen of my dreams.

Here's one thing that won't be changing, though; the French doors leading onto the ginormous screened porch.

Love!

Lookin' off the patio

Here's my current view off my back patio.

Oh, the suburbs. It's like I could just reach out and stick my hand into their kitchen if I wanted to.

Here's the new view off the back.

Yeah, there's houses back there. Way, way, way back there. But you have to walk across half an acre, plus a pretty dense wooded area to find them. I can have chickens here! I could even have a horse if I became insane and decided to buy a horse! And the beauty of it all is that it's only a mile away from my current house. Christopher doesn't have to change schools, Ashley doesn't have to change preschools, and we can stay close to the trappings of civilization that I've become so accustomed to. *cough*Starbucks*cough.

What's that? A barn? No, that's actually Matthew's new digs until he leaves for the Navy on March 1. More pics of the inside of that later, it's pretty cool. Especially if you're 19 and need a little space.

And here's my new screened in patio.

Imagine the possibilities. The previous owners had a hot tub out there at one point.

Coming soon, kitchen photos!