Rogowski Family Adventures

I apologize for the lack of updates in the last 2 weeks.  I’m sure you were all anxiously awaiting my next post with bated breath.  Well wait no longer because here it is!!! I cannot believe I still have not written a post about our new house! But I'm sure most of you know by now that we are officially moved into our beautiful new lake house!  I wanted to wait to take pictures and give you a virtual tour until things were settled in a bit.  So that post will be coming next week, as soon as I return from California. :)                 The last two weeks have been filled with so much excitement combined, of course, with just the right amount of stress.  That seems to be the emotional elixir that Bart and I exist on these days.  We both took separate trips to California last week. (Yes, and I'm headed back again!)  Bart went to Sacramento for the NCCPA swoop competition and I went to Sierra Madre to see the family.  I spent my first few days at home relaxing, and of course, wo

Well, in the world of Kimmy and Bart, the stress levels seem to be getting lower by the day.  Birds are chirping again and the future doesn't look so uncertain. We're continuing to work on our warehouse,  getting it cleaned and set up.  It's so close, we just need to get all of our personal belongings out of there and we can put the final touches on it.  The idea of having a house AND having the warehouse set up sounds like such a dream.  It's been the dream for the past year, and to know we're so close now feels unbelievable! Soon we'll be able to just relax into a daily routine and establish a sense of normalcy that I have so desperately been craving!  (Continue to stay tuned regarding new and exciting details about our housing situation. I can't quite bring myself to write about it yet!) We also, of course, have managed to squeeze in quite a bit of fun.  Bart is training for various competitions coming up so he's been jumping quite a bit.  He just r

As I sit here preparing to write this post, I realize it's the first time I've actually stopped to just gather my thoughts and rest my mind in many, many days. Well, probably since my last post! The rate at which Bart and I have been going through our days rivals that of the energizer bunny. We are constantly sweating, moving quickly, talking fast and forgetting to eat! Our warehouse is coming along nicely though! Last week we came across an AWESOME deal at a KMART that was going out of business. We were able to purchase roughly $6,000 worth of pallet racks and shelving for $500! It was EXACTLY the deal we were looking for. The catch? We had to disassemble, move, and reassemble everything. Sounds like no big deal, right? WRONG! My gosh, was it a big undertaking! Thank God Bart used to design similar rack systems so he knew how they worked. It's not so much that they're complicated, they're just comprised of so many different components that all fit together like a