Category Archives: Construction

Business, Construction, mindset

Be Rich! $$$

March 24, 2016 Be Enough 3 Comments

What would it mean to you to be rich?

Could it be possible for you?

I knew it was possible for me but I didn’t ‘know’ how.

Until now…

Rich can mean having a great deal of wealth or assets. It can also mean being plentiful or abundant.

I have finally figured out that I am rich! Yup, ME!

⭐️ I have space in my life to create the days I desire.

⭐️ I am privilege to look into the eyes of these beautiful souls on a daily basis and to witness my children’s childhood.

⭐️ I am present with intuitive friends like Ned, Isa, Ang and Mich and talk about healing, dreams or life.

⭐️ I watch our four year old love up his dog while Summer lies in the snow.

⭐️ I smile at people as we walk by each other, sharing time and space.

⭐️ I talk about water, sleep, protein, minerals and poo with people. (Ah the richness of health!)

* I believe money is a river that flows as we help others around us.

⭐️ We are able to create a suite in our backyard to invite new people into our lives.

My eyes are opened up to how rich or abundant my life is. I just didn’t see it before. I lack nothing.

I lack NOTHING!

I have more than enough.

I live in abundance.

I am enough.

With great richness surrounding me everyday.

Look, what riches do you see around you?

Boys, Construction

Be Proud Of a Tower

April 29, 2015 Be Enough 1 Comment

Wooden blocks given to our firstborn as a baby.

Now being played with by our eight year old firstborn.

Same delight.

Same scream.

Same blocks.

Today, JC finally made a tower taller than himself. It has been alluding him for awhile as he seems to be growing every day.

Blocks.

Building.

Boys.

Carefree moments.

My heart sings…

Construction, Family

Be Doing A Less Than $5000 Kitchen Reno

July 7, 2014 Be Enough 2 Comments

Kitchen Renovation anyone? Just say No!

I had no idea why kitchens cost so much to renovate.

My family (including my mom and dad last July) has put so much sweat equity into this kitchen it should be worth $100,000. We spent less than $5000, new-to-us appliances included.

Here is our work at this humbling progress. From brown wood and lino floors to white walls, avocado cupboards and engineered hardwood.

We found a guy who makes laminate countertops in his garage. Perfect!

Our amazing contractor installed the wood floors, a new door and my parents put their skill into painting the cupboards.

We bought a secondhand Bosch dishwasher for $200 and splurged on a new faucet, fridge, stove and hardware.

Here is what we started with:
1960’s kitchen with ‘newer’ appliances.

First week: Paint June 23, 2013

Week Two: Laminate Countertop July, 2013

Week Three: Engineered Hardwood floors and copious amounts of coats of paint. I think it was FIVE coats of paint to be exact. July, 2013

Week Four and throughout the NEXT YEAR!: Final paint and new hardware. Viola c’est fini! June 15, 2014!

This kitchen is inspired by this photo from houzz.com and our designer friends Robyn and Angela.

Many, many hours of painting by Steve, my mom and dad made this $5000 transformation possible. It was a labour of love.

Let’s review–
BEFORE:

TODAY:

With God all things are possible.

With Sexy Neck’s ideas and vision a smokey house became a home.

With my parents labour of love, our roots have grown deep.

With our boys love of fort building, creating and playing every corner of our home has been explored and filled.

With old and new friends stopping by laughter and memories have brought us home.

Boys, Construction, Family, Grief

Be Building a Maisonnette

February 24, 2014 Be Enough 2 Comments

What did you yearn to have in your childhood home?

A cozy place to snuggle and read?

A place to climb?

A home for your dolls and toys?

Since the day we moved into our house last summer, our boys have wanted to build a fort/Maisonnette under the stairs.

A perfect hideaway.

A clubhouse.

A special space.

My heart longs to create a healing home where we can rest. As last week unfolded, I knew our family needed a project for the weekend. I immediately thought of the fort. We must have hit the right moment as the construction gears were in motion on Friday night about ten seconds after I mentioned the fort.

JC and Sexy Neck came up with the design. I cleaned out my stuff from under the stairs. The boys found some wood and they were off.

Here is the finished product on Sunday night:

The boys want to put wood on the sides, add a rope ladder, paint, add a curtain for privacy, a bookshelf and a few more nicknacks will come and go.

The boys were incredible working with their dad. Sexy Neck was amazing at involving the boys every step of the way. The were able to measure and cut wood. Problem solve when the wood wouldn’t fit on the platform. The boys screwed in the floorboard, OC was a natural. Finally, they got to choose everything that they wanted in the fort.

Building self-esteem.

Handwork.

Creating.

Bodies and minds in motion.

Encouraging.

The boys Maisonnette designed and created by them.

Being.

Boys.

Boys, Construction, Family

Be Making a Half Pipe

January 8, 2014 Be Enough Leave a comment

We went to our Vtown library today.

Cancelled mom’s account.

Had a cry with our wonderful, caring library clerks.

Just a normal day in the hood.

Oh ya, we also got some books.

The boys picked up a skateboard book. They disappeared downstairs into Nana and Papa’s great basement.

While downstairs, they discovered this half pipe photo in the library book.

My parents have always had plywood boards with cut outs in them to create and play with. We had them as kids, then we gave them to our local elementary school in PG.

A few years ago, my dad made five more wooden boards for the grand kids to make forts, stores, and theatres with.

Today was a first for the boards in the Jenkins’ family – a half pipe.

I wonder what Nana would say.

Boys, Construction, Family

Be Springing Another Leak

November 6, 2013 Be Enough 1 Comment

We have sprung another leak!

This morning we woke up to a flurry of activity around our driveway that started spewing water again yesterday.

Two months ago, we had our first leak.

Now this:
7:00am Visit from the City workers.
7:08am Sexy Neck in his robe moving the cars out of the driveway. (I should have got a picture of that!)
7:30am Pumper truck shows up to start sucking the earth. (21st century version of a shovel!)

The boys are so excited. Me, I ain’t too sure. This is a little bit of a lot lately.

Enjoy our view:

Update: Leak is fixed. It was our neighbours line this time around.

Boys, Construction

Be Cutting Down a BIG tree!

November 1, 2013 Be Enough Leave a comment

We were in boy heaven this morning!

This tree had to be cut down :(.
We had a tree company show up with cranes, huge saws and a humongous tree cruncher.

The excitement started off with one of their workers putting on his harness getting attached to the crane and getting pulled to the very top of our tree

He then attached himself to our tree and attach the crane above him. Next he went to work.

They cut about 20 feet off the top of the tree and then pulled it up with the crane and took it down to the street so they could cut off all the branches. The trunk of the tree was still attached to the crane and it went flying through the air like Mary Poppins and was put on a trailer farther down the street. They did this FOUR different times.

A chain saw sitting on the trunk.

The huge trunk flying by my kitchen window.

Grinding up the stump.

Lastly, they cleaned up the street and left us a little bit of memorabilia leaning against one of the other trees.

Now you’re probably wondering why did we spend thousands to cut down the tree.

Back in September, we had a fairly large windstorm and we were watching the tree. We noticed that it was swaying quite a bit.

After we inspected the tree further and had four different arborists come to look at the tree, we realized that the tree had been cabled in two different places to try to keep the branches together. (This is the trunk that came flying past my kitchen window!)

Just note to self: if you ever buy a house take a close look at the trees because they can be expensive to remove!

Let.

There.

Be.

Light.

Our new view.

Boys, Construction, Family

Be Having Some Hideouts

October 27, 2013 Be Enough Leave a comment

My boys are incredibly creative when they are outside. They seem to go with themes, sticking with them for a month or two then they move on to something else. ( uHmmm… Might be interesting to think about as we school our boys.)

We have gone through swinging, soccer, bugs, tree climbing, treasure hunting, obstacle course making and probably a few other I am forgetting.
Here’s one of their most adventurous creations.

Right now they will look at something and immediately see “hideout”! I am letting them go with it. So far nothing has been destroyed, demolished or hurt in the process of their outside fort making.

Here are four new hideouts they have discovered in the last month:

Under the front stairs.

Under the side stairs.

Underneath the juniper beside the pool deck.

They spent hours pruning the juniper so that they could all fit underneath.

This is their latest hideout and I was the ‘bad guy’!

Lets just say they were pretty easy to catch.

"Be" ENOUGH

Category Archives: Construction

Be Rich! $$$

Be Proud Of a Tower

Be Doing A Less Than $5000 Kitchen Reno

Be Building a Maisonnette

Be Making a Half Pipe

Be Springing Another Leak

Be Cutting Down a BIG tree!

Be Having Some Hideouts

"Be a human BEING, not a human doing!"