Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. – James 1:2-4

Here’s the thing. Rebekah and I move into this incredible restoration project, and we love the space and how all this history and gorgeous millwork and the wood floors and tall ceilings and huge windows that saturate the inside with light work together with everything else to make this home so unique… but there is just about nowhere to store anything!

No attic, no garage, no tool-shed, no designated storage room, just the one good closet, no under-the-stairs bonus area.

So we are buying cupboards and closet systems and shelves and more. Or should I say Rebekah is ordering them on-line then they come in a box and then Derek puts them together. Some are heavy. Some of them are very heavy. Some are so heavy it’s tough for even the two of us to drag off the porch and inside of the house before opening the box and attempting the “simple” seventy-three step assembly (written in code and illustrated by a three-year-old).

Then Friday this truck pulls up outside. It’s a big truck. Huge. “Curbside delivery only,” the driver says. Then it takes all the strength and ingenuity and power-assist he can muster to get this thing off the truck and over our sidewalk.

I think Rebekah has set a new standard for “heavy”! And a new standard for purchasing something that is, “Some assembly required.” How about some “M.I.T. educated structural engineer required?” I wonder what the Navy Seabees have going on this weekend?

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds…”

Pure joy; you bet. That and a handyman service – DEREK