The Rest of Life Goes On...

When I went into the hospital 2 weeks ago, we were in the midst of an overbudget, behind schedule master bedroom/bathroom remodel. In between coming to the hospital, coordinating relatives, working his actual job and having a baby, Andy somehow managed to get the contractors to mostly finish the project last week. Of course, like everything else on this blog - things never go to plan.

First our kitchen range broke days before I went to the hospital. We had replaced parts on it before so decided it was time for a new one. Also, I have always disliked the electric range, so we decided that as long as we were getting a new stove, we should get gas - which requires a new gas line to be run to the kitchen and a conversion kit to run the gas stove on LP (yes, we live in the country). The stove arrived last week, and even though the salesman said that they were all a standard size, it did not fit in our counter. We had to move the cabinet beside the stove over a quarter of an inch and hire a contractor to remount it as well as run the gas to the stove. A simple installation turned into another huge project depositing saw dust over every surface of the kitchen.

The first week I was home from the C-section, we had no sinks in our bathroom and no clothes in our closet. We are doing better now with sinks, and Andy has completed the closet - I just need to organize the clothes in it.

Our new bedroom has a new wall built in it that is perfect for one of those flat screen TVs that hangs on the wall. We bought one a couple weeks ago and hung it up. Worked great. Then the contractor came and hung some trim around the door on the wall. Who knew that the vibration from a nail gun isn't good for a TV? It didn't work anymore, Andy had to unmount it, box it up and exchange it for a new one at Best Buy. We don't have the new one hung up yet.

Our new remodel also includes space for a washer and dryer. We ordered them weeks ago. The dryer was delivered last week - but the washer was damaged. Apparently they have to manufacture a new one in China and ship it to us because we still don't have it. Luckily, we still have the old ones around on the first floor to use.

Finally, I woke up this morning and took a lukewarm shower in our new bathroom. I woke up Andy to let him know of the latest house issue. He is at home right now with his dad installing our new hot water heater that he had to buy today.

No new projects!!!! I just want to live in my house where everything works properly and I am not spending $1000 every week on some new appliance!!!! Is that too much to ask? Probably. There is always something going wrong. Maybe there will just be fewer things pretty soon!