Building a Dream
Note: This is an article I wrote about building our home. I thought I would share it with you. Building A Dream For as long as I can remember, one of my dreams has been to build my own home. In my mind, I could see myself out on this beautiful piece of land with sweat on my brow, dirt on my nose and a hammer in my hand as I pounded nails, laid block, sawed, painted and performed other acts of manual labor to physically create, foot-by-foot and wall-by-wall, my very own self-made home. At one time, back in my really idealistic days, I not only wanted to create my own house, but I wanted to create everything in it—-all the furniture, the rugs, the curtains, a stained glass wi...
