I’ve been gone most of the fourth quarter. I just totally gave up on blogging and submitting and everything since September, but I decided to jump back in as soon as that train-wreck of a year was in the rear-view mirror.

But that is not to say that nothing happened around here. For those of you who are long time followers, there has been some pretty amazing progress!

Let’s take the nook off the bedroom. Do you guys remember when it looked like this?

And that wasn’t even at its worst.

Well, now, it is my husband’s new work from home office, and it looks like this:

We even got a steam cleaner for the carpet, and now there is actual floor in the bedroom:

As well as the area right outside the bedroom:

We’ve also started using the Hello Fresh! meal program instead of ordering take out every night. Five meals a week to cook at home.

I’m really enjoying cooking for the first time.

It involves a lot of chopping:

And for that, I found that my prep space was far too limited with the kitchen in the shape it was so now:

Yeah, the floor is still a disaster, but I haven’t gotten that far.

I DID make my first enchiladas ever tonight:

And they were to die for!

I’ve never been good at cooking vegetarian, hence the eating out so much, but now I can’t wait for the next box to come tomorrow.

Next week we will have a guest post, but hopefully, the week after that I can show some progress at reclaiming my own office so I can work more efficiently.