Liz's Letters

My son's girlfriend has been living with us since April. It has been fantastic to have her here, for many reasons. This reason, though, I could capture in photograph. She loves to paint. She paints pictures - as in real pictures. She also paints the most fabulous flowers on my fingernail and toenails. She even likes to paint walls. Yes! She likes to paint walls...can you believe that?!? We have a game room upstairs. It is sort of the "hub" of the upstairs. It also is one room that I have done nothing with since we moved here 5 years ago. In fact, when we forgot to take "before" pictures, I looked to see if I had a photo of this room from when I took pictures of the house when we moved here - nope. I guess I didn't like the room much. Not that it's a bad room; in fact, it is a great place. It just wasn't very pretty. Thien (my son's girlfriend) didn't like the room much either but since we spend quite a bit of time in there, it became...