One Week Later...

Well it has been a week now since the house has officially become construction worker free. We have been busting butt to get things back into order around here, and I must say that it is coming along nicely....however slower that I would like. A dear friend from Church came on Saturday and helped for a good part of the day....bless her heart. It was very helpful and nice having the extra set of hands. Things defiantly will not be prefect for my mother in laws visit however I will not have to worry about her trying to squeeze down the stairs or tripping and falling on a box. Plus we will have somewhere to sit, that is a huge plus right now, and she now has a room to sleep in where she wont have to climb over boxes to get to the bed. I have been working on the living room all afternoon (since we got home from Kindermusik....could have gotten in 3 more hours on it, if it wasn't for that....but I LOVE Kindermusik class and so does Edward so it was worth the detour in the cleaning). Tomorrow is all the houses, as is Thrusday. I was able to put off the maids until Friday afternoon. Which is a huge plus. Trust me, we need them to get rid of this dust. I had Kirk take Edward to the park for a little while, poor thing has been cooped up in the house all day and is very restless. Edward and I were both so exhausted last night that we were in bed by 8:30pm and still slept until 9am. Granted I didn't sleep that well all night long...haven't been able to do that for some time now. My plan of attack is to get the frontroom, dining room (which is 75% less homeschool stuff now...moved most of it into what was left of the old kitchen....still need to get a good deal of it put away), and the kitchen all in order by Friday when the maids come. Edwards Bedroom, our Bedroom and new Theater/Playroom can wait until after grandma leaves. Will have to have the maids back again once the house is completely back together that is okay, want to get rid of all this yucky blucky dust. Well, the front room is calling my name, better get back to working on it. I promise after my Mother In Law comes there will be pictures of the finished areas....just dont want to ruin the suprise since she will be the first family member to see what we have done.

Time to get down and dirty

Well the construction is pretty much over with. Everyone is gone and it just back to me & Edward. I have been BUSY unpacking and finding places for everything in the kitchen and new playroom/theater room. I can say that the new bathroom is pretty much put together. I just have to cartons to unload for the bathroom and it is completed. I have all the cartons for the kitchen unloaded now too (just finished that a few minutes ago....felt I deserved a break). Still have things though in the kitchen to clean and put away. I still wish we would have rented one of those Pods, trust me, we will the next time we do any major construction. A friend from church is coming over tomorrow to help me out a little. That will be nice, at least I will have someone to chat with. I think we will conquer the school room and dining room, since most of the school stuff can now be moved into what is left of the old kitchen. Saturday the same little gal (a daughter of one of Kirk's co workers ) will be coming to help me. I am hoping that we will be able to finish up the playroom/theater room and Edward's bedroom. I am getting that. I have to have the whole house put back together by a week from tomorrow as I have The Maids coming in to do the deep yucky dusty cleaning work since I can't do it because of my asthma and allergies (have already been kicking up enough of that junk as it is). Kirk has been under the weather all week. I need him to get back to normal so we can empty the guest room of all the boxes from the old craftroom that is now the new washroom and help me take them up to the attic for the time being. We hope to in a couple of years redo the basement and turn it into a large craftroom for me, but until then most of it has to go up in the attic (unless it is heat and cold weather sensitive, then I have to find someplace else that is safe to put it for the time being). I can not wait for this house to get back to normal, sometimes I look at it and think it is never going to be that way again. This week is also hectic with Edwards schedule...he had Kindermusik this morning, he has his Homeschool Bowling League Awards ceremony tomorrow afternoon and we have blastball practice in the evening, then we have co-op and Monart class on Friday. Somewhere in all of this I need to get things ready for his birthday part that is a week from Saturday. Oie Vey where in the world has the time been flying too? Well that is about it in a nutshell.

House Update

New Mini Bar Area (we don't drink but it will be nice to have an extra sink in the kitchen and one low enough for Edward to reach).
New Kitchen Office Area for Mommy's computer to link up so she can get awesome recipes to use from Foodnetwork and other sites.
Our new Natural Slate Bathroom Floor in the downstairs bathroom.
New stairwell to second floor so that in case of a fire Kirk has a safe way to exit the house.

Well here we are still in the middle of Construction and Renovations. They claim it will be done (mostly just very minor things to wrap up) with by tomorrow. I can tell you I am not holding my breath on that promise. It should have been done at the end of February. The upstairs addition is the only thing completely completed. As I said in my earlier (from yesterday) entry I have been busy putting it together. I can't wait until my house is extra person free and I can get busy. I always feel as if I am in their way, not that they are in mine....preventing me from getting done what I need to get done. I have some new pics to post. I will add them to the top of this post but please note they were taken before I left for Vacation in Mid March.

Crazy House

Well it officially began today. We started the addition and renovation on our house today. I was awakened this morning at 8 am to Bear-Bear barking insistently. He doesn't usually do this. So I threw my bathrobe on and went down to see what was bothering him. I saw a soda sitting on our back deck that I know wasn't there when I went to bed. I stepped outside to find 2 guys on our roof taking down the gutters we just had put on this summer. Kirk had forgot to mention that they would be starting today. I went to a Dr. Appointment at 10am, to see my new Endocrinologist for my Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Diabetes management. This is my first time to have ever seen one and I must say I am happy to have her help me to better understand my diseases and how to manage them. Tomorrow I have to go in early to get some blood work and tests done, then I will see her again in a week after I have monitored my sugar levels according to her directions. This is a good thing trust me. When I was diagnosed with Diabetes, I wasn't told how to manage it, how often or when to take my blood to check my sugar levels ( I even had to beg to get a monitor....it was over a year before I finally got one...then I was just given the monitor and left to my own devices), the signs of to high or low sugar levels and what to do in these situations. It is nice to know that I now have more control over my diseases. Enought of that. I came home to a brage of workers, and finally after 6 plus months of begging Kirk to get me some help to move the old air conditioners that were replaced (Couldn't get them back down the stairs....they weigh a ton and I couldn't bear the brunt of the weight and he kept forgetting to ask someone to come and help me move them), the workers removed them for us. I was able to get to the room that will be turned into the laundry room (yep, it will be upstairs on the 2nd floor now instead of in the basement) to clean it out. Now to go through all my old craft room stuff decide what I need, what can be yard sale and what is trash. I need to down size, as I will have limited storage space for these things. So I spent the better part of the afternoon moving the boxes from that room to the guest room (sorry if you were planning to come to visit us in the next few months....probably not a good idea unless you want to stay in a hotel....no place to put a guest at this time). Feb and March look pretty busy and hectic too. Well it is very late, I need to get to bed as I need to be at the doctors at 8am to have the blood work needed done.