We are finally sorting out the design for our own personal build.

It's going to be very challenging for us,

giving up a mortgage rate that we're locked into now that's absolutely amazing. It's just gotten to the point where like we need more

sanity in our life, we need more privacy in our life, and this is what we want to be doing.

Welcome back to another episode of Midweek Modern Craftsman. Hope everyone is having a good week.

It is Tuesday, October 15th.

It is mine and Rachel's 13th wedding anniversary.

That's insane. I can remember my parents having

anniversaries when I was around, you know, when I was like my kids age and

my parents having 13 15 year wedding

anniversary is and seeming as though they were really really old you know getting up

on that 40 year mark I'm currently 38 and now being in those shoes I don't feel like I'm that old and I like

13 years sounds like a long time but it has gone very quickly that's not to say that it has not been challenging at times, that it's

not the hardest thing you ever do at times, but it doesn't seem like it's been 13 years.

It's crazy looking back on it to think that I got married when I was 25, Rachel 26.

I see 25 year olds now and I'm like you guys are babies and we were most certainly babies but I think some of that ignorance and innocence

definitely that ignorance and innocence definitely was helpful at times and then I think a few years down the road coming into your 30s and coming into who you are and changing a little bit did prove to be difficult when you get married.

Not that we were 18, 19, but like still at 25 years old making the decision at 23 that we were going to get married.

You're young, like very young and I don't feel that I knew who I was truly and in turn it's like how do you

choose to spend your life with someone when you're still trying to figure out yourself

But I've come to realize that your entire life you're trying to figure out who you are and you're not the same person this year that you were last year and your marriage is not the same.

So not that I am any expert on marriage, like I said, I've definitely had my struggles, challenges,

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