Can you imagine living through a 12-year home renovation project, infant in tow? Me either. But David Giffels and his family did, and he swears his family came out better for it. No doubt their home did too.

Listen to this great story of home and family, of "dreams and hopes, and of ghosts and unexpected deaths," told in an interview with father David Giffels, who also wrote a book All the Way Home,  Building a Family in a Falling Down House about his very brave Akron, Ohio home renovation adventure.