Final Stages! (& loving my black doors!)

Well we are well into the month of May and all is hectic here as usual.  We are all still ready to move and inching our way there everyday.  Had to work Mothers Day weekend so that kind of put a damper on the spirits but the house is looking fabulous!  Here are some things we have recently done:

1. tilled, seeded and strawed the whole 2 acres

2. painted downstairs interior doors black

3. flooring was delivered

4. painted more trim

5. bought desk to go in office

 

So all that is really left is final plumbing and final electric, inspections and cleanings!  I have to have the appliances delivered after the flooring and that should be getting close to being done!  We have lived in the apartment now for 7 months!

Whew!  Glad it is almost over.  Here are some picture updates!

Love me some Cabinetry!

Well what can I say?  I am off till next Monday….whoooohoooo! But just as busy as ever.  With my son being in New York, construction meetings and being with my mom it just is jammed packed the next few days.  Oh did I mention I still need to finish the budget, get groceries and be a wife and a mother to our 13 soon to be 14 year old daughter still? 

Do they sell time at TARGET!?  I am of course kidding because I definitely do not want to tell God he was wrong when he only made 24 hours in a day.  Remember that “simplicity” post I did awhile back?  Well I think after the final move to our new home I am going to be exercising that more and more to fit into our lives!!!

But for now I will just continue to “Love me some cabinetry”!  Lookie what they put in today!!!! (sorry for poor quality , son has digital cam in New York)  I am going out to the house myself to see the cabinets in real life.  Hubby did the favor of taking these for me tonight while I was at work!  I think he is as excited as I am about kitchen cabinets!  That and soon he may taste my homemade noodles once again soon!!! YUM!  I can almost taste them now!~

Hold on tight gals it’s going to be a bumpy ride!!!

Thought I would come back and update you all on what has been going on and why I have been absent for so long…..

Busy is not the word I would use to describe how the last few weeks have been…….In face I can’t come up with a word at the moment to describe it.  First let me say I have decided that school (my BA in nursing) has to take a back seat right now.  I just had to unload some stress and it will be there waiting on me in the fall if I so choose.  Second the house is coming along very nice and the last 2 weeks have been filled with painting , painting and more painting…..oh and trim work and staining and more painting!!  But we are getting there.  Insert our construction mgr quitting the company but hey………what's a little more stress???  All is good at the moment and we are right on schedule!  The furnace even got turned on the other day so no more kerosene bills!!!

But the real stressor came as a huge blow during this whole thing……to make a long story short my mother had been having problems with her health.  Just thought it was carpal tunnel….even had the surgery and everything….this was her second one.  no big deal right?  Well she just got worse and worse and this had been a slow moving train since fall.  Finally we got her in to see a very good neurologist.  She has ALS!  WHAT?  ARE YOU SURE?????  This disease is also called Lou Gehrig's Disease.

you can read about it here:  LOU GEHRIG’S DISEASE

This is a fatal disease and we are not sure how long she has.  My mom is a nurse.  We have watched my dad’s mom die of this and I just found out my mom had an uncle that also died of this.  So she knows what is coming her way and as you can imagine is scared. 

I am not sure what I feel yet.  I am not completely sad…..I don’t want to waste time while she is here grieving!  There will be plenty of time for that when she is gone.  But I am slowing finding myself getting emotionally spent.  I am definitely not griping or complaining I just ask for you prayers as we try to make sense of it all and deal with is as best we can as a family.  We feel like we are always apologizing to friends  and such because we are losing free time to nurture those relationships at the moment but mom comes first!!!  That's just how it is. 

So please be patient with the blog…..It’s still wants to be a decorating ninja when it grows up and I will post some pictures right after this post for you to see the progress since the last update!  Been moving fast!

So again thanks for your love and support and feel free to send me messages……just might take a little longer to get back to you but I promise I will!

IN HIS NAME!

 

Recent pics from house build:

(me painting my first color on the bedroom wall!  I LOVE IT!)

ok I guess we all have mishaps uh?  Step right in the paint tray!

This is me again loving the color….it dried so nice.  It is called Pennywise from SW.

 

This is looking out from the dining room to the garage.  This color is called “cinnebar” and is much darker looking in person.  The color adjacent you ask???  FAVORITE TAN!

My master bathroom.  Used the same pennywise as an accent!

master bath walls again..

counter top next to it.

Dave and I trying to imagine what it will be like when we are done and looking out our bedroom window at the view!

Jessie’s room. She actually has two walls the same red color.

corner of my bedroom

grey primier put on dining room before the red.

awwwww. trim work!  LOVE  LOVE  LOVE this little tool!

had great helpers!

The start of the living room.  Fav Tan in there too! Its is amazing how much this color changes depending on the room and the light.

more living room

 

finished living room, kitchen area.

dining room

dining room again

foyer/living room.  Foyer color is called something RICE??? again a color from SW and color matched at home depot.

living room

kids rooms

our room from landing

master bedroom

Me, glad it is almost over!

front of house

garage area. already trying to decide where to put second garage before we pave the drive.

 

Goofing off with new digital camera.  The last one broke……can’t imagine why we hardly ever used it…..LOL

just see how the color of the stained wood matches up with the paint color.

 

spindles and railing for stairs

 

Grass was getting to Dave so he just had to mow!

felt great to him I am sure.

all the trim!!!!  Did I say we would never do the painting ourselves ever again???