One Step Forward, Five Thousand Steps Backwards

I don't even know the words to describe how this week has been. I can't even imagine what Chris feels after all that he has been through. We were both excited Monday afternoon after we got the install date for the counter tops for 10/8 and that the appliances were coming Wednesday 9/30. Things were/are coming along at a pretty good pace. Johnny Mac was down here trimming out some of the upstairs rooms, so now when the washer and dryer shows up the laundry room is all ready.



Then all of it came to a stand still. Time was burning a hole in Chris's pants literally...now we have a hole in the ceiling of the finished ceiling of the first floor. Chris decided to air test his water lines only to find out that he had a leak some where. Guess and Check and two holes later the leak was found and fixed, but the sheet rock is gone.

Despite the holes, some progress has been made in the painting area of the house. Thanks again to Tim's help the hallway is painted...pawtucket peach!!! It is peachy. Jayna's room is coming around and her focus wall is finally finished aside from her purple closet.

Nick's focus wall is finished also and now I just have to paint the rest of the rooms.

We are coming to the end of this project but it seems to be so far away still. From the pictures it looks great but walking the long hallway and seeing all the walls that still need to be painted is CRAZY!!! Once this place gets down it will be wonderful to live in the space but I think we need a vacation to get away from this place first.

The kitchen is giving Chris gray hair. I don't think he likes the putzie work that comes along with putting cabinets together, but it looks great.

In the next week and a half, the kitchen will get finished and the walls will get all painted so hopefully we are only waiting on the carpet people, electrician and tinner. Then next month is going to be a whirl wind of activity.

Appliances

When was the last time you got excited about appliances? This coming Wednesday is the day I do my happy dance. Warner Stellion, courtesy of Bob, is delivery my cook top, dishwasher, double oven, washer, driver and exhaust hood. I am overjoyed to have them in my possession and once they get hooked up I will be over the moon with excitement. You could say my Christmas is coming early and hopefully in two weeks my counter tops will be installed so my kitchen will be almost complete. Yeah!!!

That means I have to get in gear and paint again. I have Jayna's room painted and tape removed, Nick's blue wall painted and waiting for the other three walls to be painted, two bathrooms and laundry room finished, and our room finished so that means I only have Jasmine's room and Tony's room to finish that hasn't been touched and Nick's too. Oh I also forgot the hallway and ceiling upstairs and then the first floor walls and bathroom too. Wows er there are a few walls to finish.

Now that the weather is getting colder the fire has been light under our butts to get this addition done. The tile is all finished to I guess the carpet is next and hopefully trim too. Finishing touches are coming quick. Home stretch here we come.

Getting There.

It feels like the addition is consuming our lives. I spent the beautiful Labor Day Weekend painting rooms upstairs in the addition and it doesn't even feel like I got anything done but here are a few pictures of what we are doing. The first set of pictures are the girls' rooms. Jayna's room gets the wonderful look of lime green on three of the walls and her focus wall is a checker board with the other colors of her room...light pink, dark pink and orange. All of these colors can be found on her bed spread and her pillow covers. Right now it looks a little bright, but once the lighter pink dresser, white chair and book shelf get into her room it will help tone down the color. Oh I forgot to mention her closet is purple too.

Jasmine is excited for her room too but right now only part of her design is on the walls so the blue tape is the only thing showing on her walls but she too will have a brighter room with 5 colors floating through her room.

Nick and Tony will have calmer walls but not by much. Nick loves the color blue so I am going to bring two shades of blue into his room with a portrait design. The lighter blue is going inside the picture frame and the darker blue will be the rest of that wall. The other three walls will be a gray to bring in the garage/construction theme that I am doing and his closet will be red to help bring in his bed colors too. Tony on the other hand I haven't had the chance to give much thought. I was looking forward to doing some type of sports theme on his wall...baseball diamond on the wall with a 3D bat in the corner, but unfortunately I don't think Tony is going to be my sports boy. So I am thinking of doing a Monster Truck room.

On the other hand, our room is the tamest by far with a lovely brown on the walls to match our bedspread and that is about it, but by the look of the picture it is taking on more of a tawny color.

Painting is going slow as I wait for the hundreds of colors to dry, I took the peacefulness of only having three kids and Jasmine back in school to organize the 177 boxes of kitchen cabinets that we got last week into cabinet piles so hopefully Chris will get the motivation to put them together. At least Chris got a chance to enjoy his one and only paid holiday weekend and now it is back to the grind stone.