1/28/14

The work on our farm home has been MOVING along, and so has LIFE! The end of January? Say Whaaaa??? Chad has been out working on the house every day, and has been working on farm "stuff" as well. There is so much to know when one is a farmer. Chad tried to give me a lesson in drainage the other day, and I started to doze off! That's ok because when I start to talk to him about phonological awareness and phonemes and structural analysis and digraphs....all reading teacher "stuff", he kinda did the same thing. Not everyone can be interested in everything. So, I don't have many pics to post of the house. Everything is demoed, and the builder and his guys are working on the HVAC items this week. The electrical is done, for the most part, and the new plumbing is done. Chad is currently working on getting the basement dry. We want to put a room down there that will be partly his office, partly my work-out space. However, we need to make sure it will stay dry before going through with that plan. Our builder is going to be purchasing the toilets, faucets, sinks, vanities, etc. We're purchasing a farm sink from IKEA and we decided that the best way to get that was for us to make a trip to IKEA. I told Chad that I would be more than happy to go by myself and spend the day because there just might be a few more items that I need to get too! He wasn't buying that option. Our builder is going to start building our cabinets for the kitchen as well, so we are looking at paint for those, and we are appliance shopping too. Here are a few pictures taken over the past month. For me, the really "fun" pictures will be when we really start to see stuff happening in the rooms, like the drywall, and the cabinets in the kitchen and such. The first pic is our kitchen, all demoed. Next is part of our new hallway. Then, the kitchen again looking into the great room. Next, a shot of the kitchen from the greatroom. The last ones are of the new windows in the addition.

And We're Demoing!

Demolition has begun. Oh, before, I start that, Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! I've been quiet here for a while because life. Just. Got. Really. Busy. Like, crazy busy. But, we were happy to host many of our family members and friends over this Christmas season. We reminded our family members who live in California that this would be the last time they would be in this house. And, as I packed up all of our Christmas items today, and took down our Christmas tree, I began to grow very sad. Because, this is OUR house, the place we call home. We have lived here for 6 years and brought Teddy and Charlie home from the hospital to this house. Memories, memories, memories. But, I can't get into that too much right now. Not yet. I'm not ready to "go there". I will. Just not yet. Chad has been working on tearing out the "pink" bathroom. He has done an amazing job. This, after he and his dad, and a lot of other helpers, put in an entirely new septic system. Here are some great photos that Chad took. My favorite? The ones taken from on top of one of the grain bins. God's presence is there in that photo, without a doubt. I love the way the roof line has come together. It looks, from that perspective, like the addition is not really an addition. Like it was there all along. We are going to attempt to use some of that lovely blue or pink tile left from that bathroom in our new half bath. And, we are going to reuse the pink sink! More to come soon, Nicole