More House News

Quite a bit has happened this week.

We have stucco!

We now have countertops and appliances (even though they aren't all installed yet.)

We noticed also that they are starting to wire all the electrical plugs. We expect them to be locking the doors any time now.

It's a good day today!

Today when I went to pick up Petunia from the bus they were delivering our cabinets!!!! Not only that, but they had also just begun to stucco the front of our house. I can't wait to go out there tonight and sort of tear open a small corner of one of the cabinets and see what color they are. It will be like a Christmas present. I know, I should remember what I picked out, but it was so long ago that I have no idea. Oh yeah, and I haven't blogged since they painted....I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel. They say the house will be done on the 20th of November, and we get the keys on the 26th. A little later then I was hoping, but not too bad. They say they haven't missed a deadline yet. I hope ours isn't the first. I will post a picture tonight after we go out.

The Stucco (not yet painted)

Bathroom cabinets

Kitchen cabinets

Another good thing is that a little boy four doors down the street from us in our new house is starting at Petunia's pre-school tomorrow. That will be so nice for her to have someone to get off the bus with and to maybe play with after school. I hope it works out good for her.

I had my scope yesterday. It really wasn't that bad. I had heard horror stories of people waking up during the middle of it and was terrified. When they gave me the stuff that was supposed to put me out I started talking and asking lots of questions. Even when I got all dizzy and loopy I kept talking. Finally the doctor looked at the nurse and asked how much she had given me, she turned around and said she would give me a little more, and that's the last thing I remember. Not even a twitch of pain. I was only a little dizzy after I got home, and slept it off. They didn't find much just some little sores at the bottom of my stomach. They took a biopsy to see if they were ulcers. Then they scheduled me for a stress test because a lot of my pain at night is in my chest. I get to do that tomorrow. I will be so glad to have all this behind me, and am glad I am getting it done before we move. I am sure a lot of it has to do with all the stress and pressure of building and living in this hell hole ummm apartment.

Well, I am about worded out. I will keep you all posted.

Things are moving....SLOWLY

Well, the house is still progressing, but it seems like it has come to a crawl. Barely today we got our doors and casings for the finish work (I've been waiting for 2 weeks for this)granted they also put in more then half of it today. If they work on it tomorrow they should have it done. They did pour our driveway and side walk, and they say it's important to get that stuff done before it snows. I guess I just need to learn to be patient.

My great hopes for this week would be that they finish the finish work, put on our siding, and it would be a small miracle if they painted. I want that done by at least the end of next week.

View from the family room into the kitchen and bedroom hallway

We talked to some of our neighbors today, they seemed really nice. I think so far the people in the neighborhood I've met are very normal, and that's a good thing to be in my book. It does not appear we will be kept up late at night with loud drunk parties and barking dogs.

Paige is acclimating to pre-school a little better and there are rarely tears when I drop her off now. The bus driver is letting her ride the bus on the way home, and she LOVES that. I have a hard time getting her off when they drop her off.

I have been having a lot of problems with acid reflux lately. It just came on so quickly about three months ago and just seems to get worse and worse. I am getting a scope on the 15th, and that almost scares me as much as the reflux does. I swear most of this is coming from living in a stupid little apartment. If moving into our home doesn't take care of it then I think I will have to be done having kids. I am not having another child if I have to suffer through reflux the whole nine months.

I am not sure how I feel about having more kids now. On difficult days with the kids I am pretty sure two is more than any normal person can handle, but when I look at our family picture it looks like we are missing one. I guess we will see what comes of the scope and if things look up in the spring, then we will decide. Doug turns 37 this month, and he surely isn't getting any younger. In fact he's pretty much an old man now. :)