Fully Alive…Ready to Smile

posted by erin on Feb 20

I’m DONE.  D.O.N.E.  done, done, done.  Done painting!  Bet you never thought you’d hear that did you?  Ha, ha!  I must say in my defense that I hardly painted at all in the last 3-ish weeks.  I was helping with hardwoods and now tile.  So I’ve been busy doing other things.  But as of today I put the final coat on the final wall.  There are still some touch-ups to be done, but that’s just little stuff.  I’ll work on that this weekend.

We are moving in on February 29.  That’s in 9 days.  NINE DAYS.  Woohoo!!!  Can anyone tell I’m a little excited?  It’s going to be a crazy week at our house, but it’s going to be great!  Cabinets being installed Saturday, Monday/Tuesday plumbing finished, Monday/Tuesday shelving being installed in closets and pantry, Wednesday/Thursday stone being put on fireplace, Wednesday/Thursday baseboards and doors being put up.  Friday…MOVING DAY!!!  Yippee!!!  Lots of exclamation marks in this post!

And you know what?  If anything goes off schedule (which is always the greatest possibility), as long as my cabinets and my toilets are in, I’m in.  That’s all I need.  Woman can live without stone on fireplace and baseboards on walls.  I’ll even hang my own bathroom door if I must.  But I am going home.

As for the rest of my week…Thursday we went to pick out and order our appliances.  Originally we were only going to get a new dishwasher and a microwave (OTR – Over The Range), but one night after Jer had already fallen asleep it hit me…our appliances are WHITE!  Our cabinets are DARK!  That will NEVER do!  So I woke him up and told him we have an emergency, we must have black appliances to go with our nice dark cabinets (If anyone knows of anyone who wants to buy nice gently used white fridge and stove, we got some for sale).  He agreed with my logic, late as it was.  I’m so very excited because to boot, I’m getting a flat top stove…eeee!!!  I thought we couldn’t afford it (since we didn’t exactly budget for a new fridge and stove), but they had a super deal on one and it was only $120 more than the coil top stove.  Yay me!

We had a nice weekend.  Saturday Jer worked at the house all day.  In the evening we went out for supper with Bentley and Helen to the Old Spaghetti Factory and then to Baked Expectations for cheesecake…heavenly.  What a perfect evening.  Sunday back to the house to work and work some more.

Monday was a holiday so the kids went to Jer’s parents and we worked on starting the tile.  And yesterday I painted and then we worked on tile till 1:00 a.m.  Well, I should say Jer worked on tile and I slept on the floor from midnight until 1:00 a.m. : )  (I made sure to bring a pillow there today so that I don’t get a kink in my neck from using rolled up jackets!).

Now we are off to do more tile.