There are so many different directions I could go with my post tonight but I’m going to mention briefly how much I hated having this “ugly” wood stove in my new home!  I was used to having a cute little fireplace along with a mantle in which you had a nice elegant focal point in your home.  When TW and I first moved into our home I ranted on and on about how I hated having a wood stove in the middle of the house.  I told him I was going to figure out a way to disguise it into a fireplace by building a mantle around it.  I absolutely hated everything about it!  Well winter time came around and he works and works to cut down firewood for us, weekend after weekend, and now I can say thank you for all the hard work you do so I can have a nice warm cozy house and not only that but no frozen pipes this winter!  (I’ve heard about several families that have had to suffer this sort of hardship this winter and I’ve gotta say with temperatures scaling all the way up to 1 degree I’m not sure I would be tough enough to handle that!!!!)  I am greatful I have a place of constant heat that I can warm my tootsies when they get cold!  So this post goes to my wonderful husband, thank you for all the woodchopping and wood hauling you do to make our house warm.

Enjoy

-erika